Australia: Iraqi polling station closed after riot

Posted by Robert on January 29, 2005 8:20 AM

More jihadist disruption of Iraqi voting. From [1] AP, with thanks to Xliberty:

An Australian polling station for Iraqi exiles voting in their homeland's historic election was closed for an hour on Saturday after a riot broke out and a suspicious bag prompted a bomb scare.

Bernie Hogan, the head of Australia's overseas voting program, said the riot erupted when a group of some 20 protesters started yelling insults at voters leaving the polling center, which is in a Sydney neighborhood dominated by Iraqi Shi'ites.

Hogan said the protesters - who had been granted a permit to stage their action - were holding up the same black flag with white lettering that has appeared as a backdrop in videos released by Iraqi insurgents featuring foreign hostages begging for their lives.

That would be the battle flag of jihad, the black flag of Islam.


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2005/01/australia-iraqi-polling-station-closed-after-riot.html

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