The tale of the vanishing and reappearing mufti (tale continued from #83):
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070208/23/p/12cvo.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Sheik will not be sacked</b>
By 7News
[Photo : 7NEWS]
Muslim leaders have decided against pushing for the early resignation of controversial Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly.
The Lebanese Muslim Association was expected to announce a retirement package for the Mufti last night.
But he'll now stay until his term finishes in April.
The Sheikh is expected to address the congregation at Sydney's Lakemba Mosque today.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Things are getting quite involved in Australia - now it's become entangled in global islamic terror.
French convert to islam, terrorist Brigitte who studied terrorism in Pakistan (see second half of post 83), had got into Australia, and married an Australian islamic convert woman. He's been caught for attempted terrorism.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070208/23/12cvt.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Friday February 9, 08:52 AM
<b>Court told of Brigitte's sham marriage</b>
By 7News
A French court has heard terror suspect Willie Brigitte's trip to Australia was funded by a <b>Pakistani terror group with links to al-Qaeda</b>.
The 38 year-old allegedly received $3000 to provide logistical support to a terror cell in Sydney.
The court also heard Brigitte only married former Australian solder, Melanie Brown, to take advantage of her military knowledge and to help him blend in.
The French court has been told Brigitte kept photos Brown took of Australian military bases and nuclear targets in order to help plan a terror attack.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That his marriage was one of calculated convenience is rather interesting. Converted islamoterrorists seem to do the same in the Netherlands as well ( see post 262 in the Islamism <b>5</b> thread ).
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070209/23/12cz3.html
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<b>Terror suspect's Sydney stay under scrutiny</b>
By 7News
French terror suspect Willie Brigitte's five-month stay in Sydney ahs come under scrutiny on the second day of his trial in Paris.
Brigitte is accused of taking part in a terrorism conspiracy by setting up an Australian terrorist cell and plotting an attack on the country's power grid.
The former kebab shop worker, who was deported from Australia three years ago, faces up to 10 years in jail if he is convicted.
The 38-year-old Muslim convert is said to have associated with terror groups in three countries.
<b>His trial, at the Palace of Justice in the French capital, has heard Brigitte was given $3,000 from men with links to the <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Kashmir-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba, to buy a plane ticket to Australia.</b>
Authorities claim Brigitte, referred to in emails as the "French Connection Project", was sent to Australia to provide logistical support as part of a terrorist cell of 11 people who planned to make the same sort of explosives used in the 1993 bombing of New York's World Trade Center.</span>
On Thursday, the court was told he had married former Australian soldier and Muslim convert Melanie Brown just 13 days after they met in Sydney, to help him blend in to the city.
(In the Netherlands, a converted female <i>former</i> Dutch police officer was caught working in an islamoterrorist cell. Is this part of some crude strategy: get converts who have access to security information involved?)
The trial heard Ms Brown later told French investigators: "Brigitte married her to have access to her military knowledge? When she refused to answer his questions, he became angry."
He was said to have kept photographs Ms Brown had taken while serving on a number of Australian military bases.
But Brigitte's lawyer Harry Durimel said he objected to the court's characterisation of the couple's relationship.
"They are painting him as a monster not even capable of love," he said. "That his marriage to Melanie Brown was just part of a recruitment."
(A similarly weird pattern of marriages is taking place among terrorist islamic converts in the Netherlands. Therefore Brigitte's lawyer doesn't know of or can't see the big picture.)
The court was told Brigitte had been arrested before he was told what his targets would be, but that his discovery froze the terrorist plot.
Police are said to have found information on military and nuclear sites around Australia in his possession. His diary also contained the name of Melbourne businessman Joseph Gutnick, the target of another terrorist plot.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070208/23/p/12cvo.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Sheik will not be sacked</b>
By 7News
[Photo : 7NEWS]
Muslim leaders have decided against pushing for the early resignation of controversial Sheik Taj el-Din al Hilaly.
The Lebanese Muslim Association was expected to announce a retirement package for the Mufti last night.
But he'll now stay until his term finishes in April.
The Sheikh is expected to address the congregation at Sydney's Lakemba Mosque today.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Things are getting quite involved in Australia - now it's become entangled in global islamic terror.
French convert to islam, terrorist Brigitte who studied terrorism in Pakistan (see second half of post 83), had got into Australia, and married an Australian islamic convert woman. He's been caught for attempted terrorism.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070208/23/12cvt.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Friday February 9, 08:52 AM
<b>Court told of Brigitte's sham marriage</b>
By 7News
A French court has heard terror suspect Willie Brigitte's trip to Australia was funded by a <b>Pakistani terror group with links to al-Qaeda</b>.
The 38 year-old allegedly received $3000 to provide logistical support to a terror cell in Sydney.
The court also heard Brigitte only married former Australian solder, Melanie Brown, to take advantage of her military knowledge and to help him blend in.
The French court has been told Brigitte kept photos Brown took of Australian military bases and nuclear targets in order to help plan a terror attack.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That his marriage was one of calculated convenience is rather interesting. Converted islamoterrorists seem to do the same in the Netherlands as well ( see post 262 in the Islamism <b>5</b> thread ).
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070209/23/12cz3.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Friday February 9, 12:14 PM
<b>Terror suspect's Sydney stay under scrutiny</b>
By 7News
French terror suspect Willie Brigitte's five-month stay in Sydney ahs come under scrutiny on the second day of his trial in Paris.
Brigitte is accused of taking part in a terrorism conspiracy by setting up an Australian terrorist cell and plotting an attack on the country's power grid.
The former kebab shop worker, who was deported from Australia three years ago, faces up to 10 years in jail if he is convicted.
The 38-year-old Muslim convert is said to have associated with terror groups in three countries.
<b>His trial, at the Palace of Justice in the French capital, has heard Brigitte was given $3,000 from men with links to the <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Kashmir-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Toiba, to buy a plane ticket to Australia.</b>
Authorities claim Brigitte, referred to in emails as the "French Connection Project", was sent to Australia to provide logistical support as part of a terrorist cell of 11 people who planned to make the same sort of explosives used in the 1993 bombing of New York's World Trade Center.</span>
On Thursday, the court was told he had married former Australian soldier and Muslim convert Melanie Brown just 13 days after they met in Sydney, to help him blend in to the city.
(In the Netherlands, a converted female <i>former</i> Dutch police officer was caught working in an islamoterrorist cell. Is this part of some crude strategy: get converts who have access to security information involved?)
The trial heard Ms Brown later told French investigators: "Brigitte married her to have access to her military knowledge? When she refused to answer his questions, he became angry."
He was said to have kept photographs Ms Brown had taken while serving on a number of Australian military bases.
But Brigitte's lawyer Harry Durimel said he objected to the court's characterisation of the couple's relationship.
"They are painting him as a monster not even capable of love," he said. "That his marriage to Melanie Brown was just part of a recruitment."
(A similarly weird pattern of marriages is taking place among terrorist islamic converts in the Netherlands. Therefore Brigitte's lawyer doesn't know of or can't see the big picture.)
The court was told Brigitte had been arrested before he was told what his targets would be, but that his discovery froze the terrorist plot.
Police are said to have found information on military and nuclear sites around Australia in his possession. His diary also contained the name of Melbourne businessman Joseph Gutnick, the target of another terrorist plot.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->