He was acquitted, and that was the end of the state’s interest in him. Australian authorities cleared him of involvement in one criminal matter, and that was that. Australia, like all Western states, treats each incidence of jihad as a separate criminal incident, with no larger significance. The idea that this is a war, and that Yacqub Khayre is a soldier in that war, is something that all mainstream analysts reject. Only the jihadis think that way, and all the learned analysts know better than to consider anything they say.
“Hostage-taker in Australia had been acquitted of terror plot,” Associated Press, June 5, 2017:
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A gunman who killed a man and took a woman hostage before dying in a police shootout had been acquitted of plotting a terror attack at a Sydney army base years earlier, police said Tuesday. Three police officers were wounded.
The siege Monday at an apartment building in a Melbourne suburb was being treated as an act of terror, but Victoria state Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said the gunman appeared to have acted alone and not as part of any ongoing plot or threat.
“There is nothing that we’ve found thus far that would suggest to us that this was anything that was … planned or done in concert with others,” Ashton said.
The gunman, Yacqub Khayre, 29, was one of two men acquitted by a jury in 2010 of plotting a suicide attack in Sydney. Three people were convicted of conspiracy. Police thwarted that plot before it could be executed.
Khayre, a Somali refugee, served prison sentences for arson and violent crimes unrelated to extremism before being paroled in November, Ashton said.
On Monday, Khayre booked an appointment with an escort in an apartment building in Brighton and arrived carrying a shotgun, sparking a 2-hour siege.
Police were called after neighbors heard the shotgun discharge as Khayre killed a Chinese-born Australian man employed by the escort agency in the lobby.
Khayre then called police to say he had a hostage in an apartment and made threats to her if police intervened. They tried to negotiate with him before Khayre walked out of the building firing the shotgun.
One police officer was shot in the neck and ear and two officers suffered wounds to their hands, but none of the wounds was life-threatening, Ashton said. The woman was not harmed.
Khayre spoke about al-Qaida in phone calls to police and to Seven Network television, and Ashton said the gunman possibly had plotted to lure police into an ambush. But it was too early to know if the gunman set out to target police or “seized the opportunity he thought was presented to him last evening,” Ashton said….
Police did not regard the Islamic State group’s claim of responsibility for the Melbourne violence as evidence that it was planned….
Guest says
Amazing: Australian Imam on TV speaking the truth about dangerous and violent texts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=IRPzkB5mr1U He’s quite brave: apparently he is spat on and sworn at when he visits some muslim communities.
Please watch and spread: if even an imam admits there is a problem, perhaps a few more people will listen.
Only question: why on earth is he still bothering with islam at all?
gravenimage says
Australia: Muslim who killed man and took hostage once charged with jihad plot at army base
…………………….
Why are these *known* Jihadists free to slaughter innocent people? Suicidal madness.
David M says
At least all of our cops have guns, unlike British cops.
Why wasn’t this Somali refugee deported back to Somalia the minute his first jail sentence had been served? Politicians failing us again.
Michael says
Their needs to be a worldwide class action against Islam and against politicians responsible for breaching thier duty of care to the public and politicians colluding with terrorist organisations This is email i sent to Corry Bernardi one nation and ALA and Lambies office /
UK Labour Jeremy Corbyn and the London major have been linked to terrorist organisations and hate preachers i wonder how many politicians in Australia are in the same treasonous boat? Why are they not charged under the terrorism laws? http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-27/london-mayors-ties-extremism-call-commitment-fighting-terror-question
Michael says
Islam terrorist in Melbourne went back to somalia to get permission to kill ( fatwa) Australia let him back in and he killed in Australia. He should have NEVER been allowed back into Australia. once they have terrorist links imediate deportation and if they leave country to train with terrorists cancel passport whether born here or not just common sense needs to be a class action against negligent politicians they have blood on their hands.
DiMu says
As this took place less than 6 minutes drive from my daughter’s family, the same daughter who was in the subway almost beneath the Twin Towers when they collapsed, I can say that I have had an absolute guts full of Islam! The sooner every mosque is closed and Muslims who refuse to enthusiastically integrate sent packing, is not soon enough for me!
Islam always has been and always will be a religion of pure hatred, known for its barbarity and lack of mercy. It is time for it to join the garbage dump of history – once we have dealt with the cowardly political elites who have proved they cannot fight a war to win it.
gravenimage says
Terrible, DiMu–I’m glad you and your daughter are OK–but I know that so many others are not.
Harold says
He looks “Asian” as they say in Europe
shoehorn says
That suicide plot in Sydney for which he was acquitted was to be an armed attack on Holsworthy army barracks. They should have let them come, and be waiting for them. Soldiers vs soldiers.
Irene Brekelmans says
It is so sickening, this whole islam and our governments have become as sick and sinister as this”religion of peace” I am starting to think, is this the New World order, to get as many people killed as possible?
And the people and politicians who are keeping quiet will be spared and not beheaded or killed?
I get this feeling that there is something very creepy and sinister going on or am I totally wrong?
The behaviour of governments, leftists, feminists is so strange, absolutely not normal. How can somebody that plotted to kill people on the army base and was involved in an arson case walk free an do something like that walk free? If you take all those cases in Australia, in the USA, in Europe, something is very whacky .
No names, no identity , what is really going on, I am wondering.
Your comments please
Irene Brekelmans says
May be it is a crazy thing, bur read in
Prepare for change these articles:
1 Triggered? Mass hypnosis and Trigger words.
2 The UN’s plan to halt population growth.
Just read these articles after my last comment here. I have seen this on television with small groups, but it could be used on big groups, may be it is far fetched, but it is so strange with all those leftists people,
they are really acting like zombies, like they do not have a mind of their own and can not think for them selves, but so many, and they don’t defend their children or grandchildren, I don’t understand that
parents would die for their children to save them from danger.
There must be something going on, otherwise it is almost not possible that this is happening. What do you think?
Singh the Sikh says
The economic cost of Islam in Australia:
http://johnwbolton.weebly.com/blog/the-economic-cost-of-islam-to-australias-budget
Dan says
The police, and press, have to be lying because, Australia has GUN CONTROL.
There’s simply no way a person with a history of violence, let alone someone committing an actual criminal act, can get hold of a fire arm.
It’s against the law.
I’d leave it at that, as in not saying “sarc,” but apparently there are liberals who can’t grasp the concept.
Which is Ironic, considering they supposed to be the artsy side of the brain users.
You know.
The side of the brain that doesn’t deal in logic?
Funny thing too, is they don’t seem to be able to grasp “irony” either.
You know?
I’m beginning to wonder if their side of the brain even exists.
It would explain a lot.
Michael Copeland says
The police thought he was not “part of any ongoing plot or threat”.
Wrong.
He was a muslim, part of the ongoing plot and threat of Islam, a world-wide group DEDICATED to “destroying Western civilisation from within” (Muslim Brotherhood Explanatory Memorandum).
Australian police need Robert Spencer to instruct them.
Rick Spencer says
Note the ZEBIBAH on this Mohammadan’s forehead! Always a sign of a ‘pious’ (ie, RADICAL) one.