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paraclete |
09/26/06 |
So an Islamist shouts and we are all supposed to be afraid, well I not afraid, I say why waste the expense of bringing him here just get the job done now. Out of his own words he has condemned himself?
Shooting suspect warns Australia over extradition
Sarah Smiles, and Ed O'Loughlin in Beirut
September 26, 2006
AN AL-QAEDA supporter about to be extradited from Lebanon has warned that Australia "will suffer" if he is deported.
Speaking from a jail in Beirut, Saleh Jamal, who professes admiration for Osama bin Laden, said Australia was an illegitimate state that should be ruled by Muslims. He is wanted in NSW after Lakemba police station was shot up in 1998.
NSW police officers had been preparing to collect him from Beirut - where he had served a jail sentence for a terrorism-related offence - in July when Israeli military aircraft bombed Beirut's international airport.
With the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict over and the airport open, NSW police say they will go ahead with the extradition.
It is understood Jamal will be handed to Australian police at the prison where he is held and taken to the airport. He will be put on a flight to Dubai, from where he will be flown to Australia.
The Lebanese prosecutor's office said that "in principle" he would be deported within 10 days, once Australian security officials arrived to collect him from Roumieh prison, near Beirut.
Other Lebanese security sources said Jamal could be extradited as soon as today.
Interviewed in prison this month, Jamal railed against the Australian Government and said the country would "suffer the consequences" if he was extradited. "I wouldn't mind going back to Australia. They're the ones that will suffer the consequences, not me."
But he conceded: "I've got 125 years probably waiting for me."
Surrounded by six armed guards, Jamal expressed bitterness that he had been left behind in jail during the war.
"I heard on the news that 25,000 Australians [in Lebanon] were contacted to be evacuated. They never came to see me. At least they could have asked if I needed a bullet-proof jacket."
Jamal, from Sydney, fled from Australia to Lebanon on a false passport in early 2004, while awaiting trial over the Lakemba police station shooting. He was arrested in Beirut soon after, and was convicted in Beirut's Military Court of planning subversive attacks against the state.
Beirut's Supreme Military Court cut his sentence in April but the authorities kept him detained at Australia's request, a Lebanese military court official said. There is no extradition treaty between Lebanon and Australia, but a spokeswoman for NSW police said it had received "formal written advice" from Lebanese authorities approving his extradition.
Lebanese authorities accused Jamal of being linked to a bombing in the Syrian capital, Damascus, in 2004. He was also recorded as having visited the Ain el-Helweh Palestinian camp in south Lebanon, a stronghold of Sunni Muslim extremists.
The Jordanian-born Jamal denied any involvement in the Damascus bombing and said he visited Ain el-Helweh to get forged Palestinian refugee travel documents so that he could escape to Europe. He denied involvement in the Lakemba attack.
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Clarification/Follow-up by ETWolverine on 09/26/06 1:11 pm:
>>>unfortunately the doogooders won't let us do it because we have 300,000 more just like him.<<<
That's what long-guns are for. My personal favorite is the Barret M107 .50 caliber sniper rifle (designated as the M87 SAS by the US military). It has an effective range of over 2000 meters (1.2 miles), can pierce light vehicle armor, and has a 5-shot magazine (10-round magazines are available). Weight = 22lbs (approx. 10 kg) unloaded. This rifle has been known to actually cut a human being in half with a single shot, through the armor of a Bradley troop transport vehicle.
I hear that thee's a 25mm version being worked on by Barret... the XM109. Can't wait till the trials are done and the public gets to see what it can do. The bullet would be roughly twice the size of the M107, and the weight of the rifle would be about 33.2lbs (15 kg). It is designed specifically for attacking materiel (vehicles, light armor, buildings, etc... but what it could do to a human being must be pretty impressive).
Anyway... the 107 is what I would use if I wanted to take someone out and still have an escape route. Take the shot from a mile away, one shot, shoot-and-scoot, and take the empty jacket with me. Have a vehicle waiting. Break down the rifle, hide it in the spare-tire hole, and E&E out via regular roads, and disappear into traffic.
Elliot
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