Thanks Pete, I have saved your web site into my favourites. Once I get a little time I will have an in-depth look and comment.

Thanks for the heads up

Cheers

Geoff

Quote: "The world must remain vigilant to the threats and be prepared to make concerted efforts to disrupt the operations and ultimately dismantle these groups for all time"

What a waste of time and words. The issue of terror is not about a group or person, it is about an ideology of hate and violence called Islam. Where there is Islam - particularly in its fundamentalist form - there will be terror, destruction and death. I would note that Quran 9:111 says it all.

The only question is why has the West let in so many Muslims? Are we stupid? Yes, duh! Can anybody not see what Muslim immigration is doing? This will not end well and good people will get hurt.

The idea that a small group is responsible for terror or that terror will end if we kill or capture x number of extremists is silly when there is a petri dish of true believers that follow a man who proudly proclaimed "I am made victorious with terror" and consider that man a great moral example. I am not talking about the so-called terrorists but the everyday Muslim men and women. Have you every tried to get a Muslim to condemn the hate and violence in the Quran? Have you ever seen a Muslim condemn the dozens of attacks by their dear prophet on his peaceful neighbors? The usual "you don't understand" and "out of context" are not acceptable.

And our leaders pretend that Islam is peaceful and it is only a few Muslims that cause trouble. What could go wrong?

The US could kill every member of every terrorist group today and tomorrow the problem would be the same

I appreciate that Geoff

And look forward to chatting further, including your views on the Indian Ocean, which is an ongoing theme of my website.

Pete

Kactuz,

Great post, makes a lot of sense.

"Seven more terrorism suspects have been arrested and detained in the United Kingdom in what is now the fourth security-related incident this week... The arrests follow the six arrested Thursday in an early morning raid. New details that have emerged since those arrests indicate that it was three brothers and three other men who are suspected of being Islamic terrorists planning a strike in the U.K. during the Olympic Games" '
http://news.yahoo.com/u-k-terrorism-officials-arrest-7-more-suspects-112508246--abc-news-topstories.html

There are reports from two separate whistle blowers who were employed by this G4S private security company that security for the London Olympics is of a poor standard.

Due to costs they are planning pushing through thousands without any real checks.Also their staff is poorly trained with minimial checks done on their backgrounds.

Hi Geoff and James

As coincidence would have it the Fairfax Press has today printed a front page news article written by one Ben Doherty in Islamabad (Pakistan's capital) in part concerning Bin Laden's Abbottabad house arrest.

Mr Doherty's article appeared in Fairfax's five capital city newspapers and also described former President Musharraf meeting then Prime Minister John Howard in Canberra in 2005.

I'm putting on record that I was unaware of the 2005 meeting and have not communicated with the Press and certainly not with Mr Doherty (ever).

I'm writing this because Mr Doherty's article was temporarily online today in all five Fairfax newspapers websites but was rapidly taken down in all five for unexplained reasons. This may be a bilateral (Australia-Pakistan) or multilateral (Australia-US-Pakistan) concern or perhaps due to threats or litigation.

I have reacted by taking down the article on my website which was basically restricted to the three extended OLO comments on this matter that I wrote on this thread. I made no mention of direct or indirect Australian links in anything I've written online on bin Laden or the broader matter described by the Fairfax articles today

So this is saying to Pakistani intelligence, lawyers or military representatives, where ever they may be, that as Fairfax has removed this matter from the internet it must be for good reasons - so I have removed my barely related blog post as well. I removed it today.

For the record.

Pete