http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20689880-5007132,00.html 'Death culture' attacked TREASURER Peter Costello has lashed out at homegrown terrorists and demanded a hard line against potential Australian bombers. Responding to The Daily Telegraph's revelations of a plot to bomb King Cross, Mr Costello said young Australian terrorists had been recruited by hardline religious terror groups pushing a "culture of death". "They glorify death, this is what jihadists do, death for themselves and other people," he said. Mr Costello warned security intelligence needed to be constantly improved to prevent a terrorist attack on Australian soil. "You are dealing with a terrorist. By definition a terrorist wants to kill innocent people - that's what a terrorist is," Mr Costello said. "You look around Australia, a terrorist will see a target wherever there are innocent people." Mr Costello is a member of the national security committee, which oversees Australia's counter-terrorism strategies. "Unfortunately in Australia there are people who have been recruited and radicalised and are prepared to commit crimes," Mr Costello said. "These, by the way, were kids who were born in Australia, their name was not Abdul, it was Jack." Meanwhile police yesterday confirmed they had thwarted a plan to bomb targets in Kings Cross. The Daily Telegraph yesterday revealed that Sydney woman Rabiah Hutchison, the mother of two brothers arrested in Yemen on terrorism and gun-running charges, was closely linked to a terror cell that had planned to bomb targets in Sydney. The brothers, Mohammed and Abdullah Ayub, are in custody in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with fellow Australian Marat Sumolsky and several other foreigners including a British citizen. They were arrested a fortnight ago after crossing into Yemen from Somalia during an alleged gun-running mission. NSW counter-terrorism commander Nick Kaldas said that a number of terrorism cases had been "confused" and the Ayoub brothers were not involved in the Kings Cross plot. Mr Kaldas confirmed a Muslim convert was in jail facing conspiracy to murder charges relating to a Kings Cross bomb plot but the person had no links with Ms Hutchison or the Ayub brothers. Police allege Jill Courtney, 26, made the plans with convicted murderer Hussan Kalache, 28, over nine months to March 23 this year. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
