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Australia: Muslims planned jihad massacre on airplane with IED disguised as meat grinder

Aug 5, 2017 5:10 pm By Robert Spencer

“This is one of the most sophisticated plots that has ever been attempted on Australian soil.”

They also “planned to build a device to release poisonous gas in a public area.”

All this ingenuity in the service of murder and destruction, at the behest of their bloodthirsty god.

“Islamic State behind Australians’ foiled Etihad meat-mincer bomb plot: police,” by Tom Westbrook and Jonathan Barrett, Reuters, August 3, 2017:

SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian man sent his unsuspecting brother to Sydney airport to catch an Etihad Airways flight carrying a home-made bomb disguised as a meat-mincer built at the direction of a senior Islamic State commander, police said on Friday.

Detailing one of Australia’s “most sophisticated” militant plots, police said two men, who have been charged with terror-related offences, also planned to build a device to release poisonous gas in a public area.

High-grade military explosives used to build the bomb were sent by air cargo from Turkey as part of a plot “inspired and directed” by the militant Islamic State group, police Deputy Commissioner National Security Michael Phelan said.

The plot targeted an Etihad Airways flight on July 15 but the bomb never made it past airport security, he said.

“This is one of the most sophisticated plots that has ever been attempted on Australian soil,” Phelan said.

Police allege that one of the two men charged late on Thursday had been introduced to Islamic State by his brother, who they said was a senior member of the group in Syria.

Communication between the accused man and Islamic State began around April, police said. Under the instruction of the unidentified Islamic State commander, the men built a “fully functioning IED” (improvised explosive device).

One of the brothers was unaware that he was carrying a bomb, disguised as a commercial meat mincer, in his luggage, and tried to check it in at the airport, police said.

“We’ll be alleging that the person who was to carry the IED on the plane had no idea they were going to be carrying an IED,” Phelan said.

Such a device would work like a large grenade, exploding with enough force to blow a hole in an airplane, even if it went off in the cargo hold, said Professor Greg Barton, a security expert at Deakin University in Melbourne.

“I think the logic would be that you pack your explosives in and seal it up, and if someone does a quick physical inspection it just looks like what it is, a meat grinder, because it’s not electrical or electronic, it’s less likely to be suspicious.”

Police said there was “a little bit of conjecture” about what happened next, but it appeared one of the accused then left the airport, taking the luggage with him. The man’s brother boarded the plane and has not since returned to Australia….

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  1. somehistory says

    Aug 5, 2017 at 5:22 pm

    It was reported a few days ago that one of the men, the father of an another of the accused, was released.
    And this account says one of the men had no knowledge of what he was taking to the plane.
    Makes one wonder just how serious the authorities are in stopping terrorism.

    • Dawn says

      Aug 5, 2017 at 5:45 pm

      Exactly ! What will take more lives for some to get it how dangerous Islam is or will it really matter.

    • Oliver says

      Aug 5, 2017 at 10:52 pm

      Not very serious
      Although it might be possible that the father didn’t know anything. And the brother with the grinder was an idiot
      Although with a brother in Syria. That seems a little far fetched

      And

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 6, 2017 at 9:29 pm

        Yeah–who could *possibly* believe that a Muslim wanted to blow up an airplane? Crazy, right? sarc/off

    • John Forbes says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 4:54 am

      TURNBULL & his government are also in DENIAL & are still quoting the usual RUBBISH about Radicals & Islam is a Religion of Peace !
      UNTIL this UTTER PARROTING of NONSENSE is stopped the IDIOCY will continue to endanger us all & Democracy !
      We all need to demand that these IDIOTIC PHRASES STOP !!!

  2. Doug Broccone says

    Aug 5, 2017 at 11:23 pm

    Um, Meat Grinder? Really? why did they think a Meat Grinder would be a good disguise for a bomb? Ridiculous

  3. moeped says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 12:39 am

    Oh yes yes “his unsuspecting brother”. As always, nobody had a clue about the plot.

    I heard it stated that barbarians only understand barbarism and that barbarism is what’s required to quell barbarians.

    It makes one wonder if barbarians would continue their attacks once they are met with ruthless barbarity.

  4. tgusa says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 12:53 am

    How appropriate. The entire ideology is a meat grinder on steroids.

  5. carpediadem says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 2:30 am

    In the same week this was discovered, the NSW branch of the Australian Labor Party voted to recognise “Palestine”, at the behest of a proHamas local Muslim parliamentarian Shaouqett Moselmane, who has referred to the proIsrael “Jewish lobby” as “cancerous”.

    Bob Carr pushes this too, but Moselmane was a bit more behind the scenes.

  6. James Stamulis says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 6:37 am

    So what does government do? They make blasphemy laws to protect poor little Islam from our dangerous free speech!

  7. Robeaver says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    His. Private parts should be n the grinder. And ground up. And fed to him. Raw. Not even salt.

  8. Matthieu Baudin says

    Aug 6, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    “… All this ingenuity in the service of murder and destruction, at the behest of their bloodthirsty god…”

    Well said!
    Like the Nazis they’ve discovered the utilitarian aspects of poison gas and even the choice of a meat grinder gives an insight into what they think the lives of ‘unbelievers’ are worth.

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