Aussie police arrest Muslim who stole military rocket launchers

And he may have sold one to a terror suspect. "Weapons link to Australian 'plot,'" from the BBC, with thanks to Charles Martel:

The Lucas Height nuclear site was allegedly a terror target Australian police have arrested a man they suspect of involvement in the theft of military rocket launchers and their alleged sale to a terror suspect.

Taha Abdul Rahman, 28, was arrested in a Sydney suburb in a joint operation by police and counter-terrorism agents.

He has been charged with 17 offences, including dishonestly receiving stolen property and supplying a prohibited weapon without authorisation.

Police said the arrest was linked to current terrorism-related cases.

Eighteen men are currently in custody awaiting trial after being arrested in Sydney and Melbourne in November 2005 on suspicion of planning an attack on Australian soil.

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Seven rocket launchers were stolen from the Australian military last year. One is believed to have since been found.

Five of the launchers are alleged to have been sold by Mr Rahman to a "person... facing terrorism charges on another matter," Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Frank Prendergast said.

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From the BBC article:

"Five of the launchers are alleged to have been sold by Mr Rahman to a "person... facing terrorism charges on another matter," Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Frank Prendergast said.

He said the other two launchers were given to another man, without giving details. Media reports suggest the man is not linked to terrorism."

(being facetious) Hopefully, the man who got the other two is one of those patriotic survivalist types. At least those two rocket launchers will get used correctly if need be.

If I might be allowed to speak to Mr. Rahman, I think he might remember where the other rockets could be located.

Muslims, Muslims, Muslims...it's always the Muslims, only we are not allowed or supposed to say it's the Muslims, cause even though it's always Muslims, it can't possibly be about the MUSLIMS!

Geez. when are we going to connect the dots already!? the West is making me sick with our PC insanity. and the Western media , i'm convinced is working for the enemy somehow. they have to be, how else can they not report all these incidences worldwide involving those who we cannot speak of or blame for anything they do ? ...you know ........MUSLIMS!

lol great military security in our great nation huh?

hmmm i want me a new apache.......maybe i can steal one......

but seriously how does one just come about stealing rocket launchers from our militay? Where they trying to beat David Boon's (Aussie Cricketer) record of drinking VB (Aussie beer) in an hour or something? (David Boon drank 45 beers in 15 hours)

Or was it an inside job?

ahhh muslims in the military perhaps?

Many now write about the future "islamization of Europe" which will indeed occur, unless counter-measures are taken on immigration and possibly on expulsion of potentially dangerous groups (see the Benes Decree, 1946). But no one seems to worry about what will happen to the military arsenals, including the nuclear arsenals, of those European states now threatened. And long before Muslims are a majority they will, as a cohesive group, have risen in the police and the military -- indeed are being encouraged in Britain and elsewhere to join the police and the military. This policy has to stop, and military men, and NATO officials, must start talking about this security threat not in ten years, or five, but now. And those who fail to understand the menace, even when it ought to have been apparent or foreseen, such as the last ten National Security Advisors of the American government (such people as Condoleeza Rice and Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger, not one of whom appears to know a thing about Islam), should be pushed out of the way, no longer to be asked for advice, no longer to be paid attention to in the slightest. And the same goes for all others who, in this important matter, refuse to show they have studied, learned, assimilated, understood.

The other rocket launchers were bought by organised crime. Not some (what) patriotic survivalist paramilitary?

You guys crack me up.

from the BBC article: He said the other two launchers were given to another man(...) Media reports suggest the man is not linked to terrorism.

Just another "average joe" who needed a rocket launcher for recreational use; ie: hunting duck-billed platypus in the Outback.

Well done Australian police! Continue to arrest all those involved and send them to jail permanently.

Relax, Howard and company are in control. No undesirable person will reach our shores. We have the diligent people at Immigration carefully scrutinising every application to enter Australia.

Wake up Howard.

W_D_J_D posted above:

"......but seriously how does one just come about stealing rocket launchers from our military?"

Actually, without wishing to appear pedantic, I am not yet convinced that that these launchers were stolen from the military.

They may well have been stolen from the manufacturers or along the transport chain.

One supposes that sooner or later the truth will out.







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