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October 23, 2005
Australia: Muslim Fanatics To Be Rounded Up Under New Proposals
According to the China Post, Australia will soon be rounding up eighty Islamists in the country, who have trained abroad with al-Qaeda and other outlawed terrorist groups. Critics have voiced their opposition to these proposed measures which have previously not been disclosed openly. The offence of training or consorting with terrorist groups was not made illegal until July 2002.
The new proposals will mean that those deemed to be terror suspects will be given control orders which would involve being electronically tagged, to report to authorities regularly, and undertake not to contact certain people or groups.
Leaders of the Australian states were glad to have a tougher set of rulings in Prime Minister John Howard's anti-terror proposals in the wake of the recent Bali bombings, but that support is now waning.
Arch Bevis of the Labour Party, the opposition spokesman on homeland security, said that proposals requiring terror suspects to be detained for 14 days without charge would need scrutiny: "We've got to make sure that laws provide for a secure Australia but we don't need to trample on civil liberties to do that" he said.
Muslims are aggrieved, and the spokesman for the Australian Muslim Civil Rights Commission has said that the plans were open to abuse. Waleed Kadous said the proposals would allow people to be detained who would not otherwise be prosecuted.
The Fiji Times has an article where the Fiji Muslim League has raised its concerns with the Australian Government in informal meetings in Suva. It has been claimed that less than 10% of people in Australia who have had, or still have involvements with al-Qaeda, Jemaah Islamiyah and other groups would ever face a court of law.
The Sunday Mail quoted the then-head of intelligence agency ASIO, Dennis Richardson, who said in March:
"In many cases, the capacity to obtain evidence sufficient to meet proper legal standards is beyond reach."But the community has an understandable expectation that the Government will lawfully protect it from the potential threat posed by those substantially involved with al-Qa'ida and other terrorist groups, and from those who have undertaken terrorist training.
"Equally, it is important that any action taken against such people - monitoring and otherwise - is within a proper legal framework."
Australia has now included Jemaah Islamiyah, al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Abu Sayyaf and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in a list of 17 banned Islamic terror groups. ASIO warned in September that there could be as many as 800 Islamic extremists, willing to carry out 7/7 style attacks upon Australia. ASIO stated that there were about 75 people that were being monitored who had trained in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 23, 2005 12:00 AM
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