Министерство образования республики беларусь учреждение
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“Actions inept” The arrests in 2005 followed tip offs from hardware store and gun shop owners. Their suspicions had been raised when the men started to order unusually high amounts of chemicals and guns. Prosecutors said one defendant had attended a training camp in Pakistan of the Lashkar-e-Taiba group and had set up a paramilitary style camp in rural New South Wales to train three of the other men. When police raided the men's homes, they found “large quantities of literature which supported indiscriminate killing, mass murder and martyrdom in pursuit of violent jihad”, said prosecutor, Richard Maidment. The trial, carried out in a purpose-built courthouse, heard there was overwhelming evidence the men wanted to create “at the very least, serious damage to property” and posed a “serious risk” to the public. Justice Whealy said the men had on occasions been “inept and clumsy” but that this “did not make their conspiracy any the less dangerous”. “There is no reason to doubt that, absent the intervention of the authorities, the plan would have come to fruition in early 2006 or thereabouts”, he said. But the sister of one of the men said the sentences were too long. “Not even murderers get sentenced that much”, the AFP news agency quoted the unnamed woman as saying. “Twenty-three years, that's half of his life. It's not fair to him, our community or our religion”. Australia is a close ally of the United States. It was among the first to commit troops to US-led campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. It has not suffered a major peacetime attack on home soil, but 95 Australians have been killed in militant bombings in neighbouring Indonesia since 2001. — 36 — TEXT 8 TIMES SQUARE BOMB SUSPECT ARRESTED IN NEW YORKTuesday, 4 May 2010 жүктеу/скачать 0,58 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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