This is Australia.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070227/2/12kbc.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tuesday February 27, 07:16 PM
<b>ASIO criticised over terror group bans</b>
Government and ASIO processes for banning terrorist organisations have been criticised by a parliamentary committee.
Liberal David Jull, chair of the joint committee on intelligence and security, said the committee was "unconvinced by the robustness of the listing process".
However the committee would "err on the side of caution" and support the re-listing of four organisations.
Under anti-terrorist legislation, all listings and re-listings of terrorist groups must go to the committee, which has the power to recommend that they don't go ahead.
Its bipartisan report on the re-listing of the Abu Sayyaf Group, a Filipino Islamist separatist group; Jamiat ul-Ansar, a Pakistan-based Sunni extremist group; the Algerian Armed Islamic Group; and the Algerian Salafist Group for Call and Combat, was tabled in parliament on Tuesday.
The report said that while some organisations which seemed to be concentrating on local activities and had no known Australian links were proscribed, others with membership and links to Australia have not been.
ASIO had told it that many such groups belonged to a global jihadist network, which could lead to people being brought to Australia.
More prominent groups, ASIO assured the committee, were kept under constant review.
The report said the committee asked ASIO for information about the four groups' activities since the last re-listing in 2004.
ASIO replied that there was a lack of available new evidence about each of them, but this didn't mean they weren't still active and dangerous.
A lack of "evident activity" may mean the group is preparing for a future act of terrorism, ASIO said.
The report said the committee accepted this may be the case, but believed that it could best decide if a re-listing is warranted by examining new information.
"Thus the committee continues to urge the Attorney-General and ASIO to provide it with as much relevant up-to-date information as possible when seeking to list or re-list a terrorist organisation," the report said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Man, how many islamoterrorist outfits are there? I've lost count. Three of the four in red above are new to me.
The islamoterrorist cells have so many names you'd think they'd have run out of them by now, and all of them sound positively Faithful to Allah in their jihadiness.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070227/2/12kbc.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Tuesday February 27, 07:16 PM
<b>ASIO criticised over terror group bans</b>
Government and ASIO processes for banning terrorist organisations have been criticised by a parliamentary committee.
Liberal David Jull, chair of the joint committee on intelligence and security, said the committee was "unconvinced by the robustness of the listing process".
However the committee would "err on the side of caution" and support the re-listing of four organisations.
Under anti-terrorist legislation, all listings and re-listings of terrorist groups must go to the committee, which has the power to recommend that they don't go ahead.
Its bipartisan report on the re-listing of the Abu Sayyaf Group, a Filipino Islamist separatist group; Jamiat ul-Ansar, a Pakistan-based Sunni extremist group; the Algerian Armed Islamic Group; and the Algerian Salafist Group for Call and Combat, was tabled in parliament on Tuesday.
The report said that while some organisations which seemed to be concentrating on local activities and had no known Australian links were proscribed, others with membership and links to Australia have not been.
ASIO had told it that many such groups belonged to a global jihadist network, which could lead to people being brought to Australia.
More prominent groups, ASIO assured the committee, were kept under constant review.
The report said the committee asked ASIO for information about the four groups' activities since the last re-listing in 2004.
ASIO replied that there was a lack of available new evidence about each of them, but this didn't mean they weren't still active and dangerous.
A lack of "evident activity" may mean the group is preparing for a future act of terrorism, ASIO said.
The report said the committee accepted this may be the case, but believed that it could best decide if a re-listing is warranted by examining new information.
"Thus the committee continues to urge the Attorney-General and ASIO to provide it with as much relevant up-to-date information as possible when seeking to list or re-list a terrorist organisation," the report said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Man, how many islamoterrorist outfits are there? I've lost count. Three of the four in red above are new to me.
The islamoterrorist cells have so many names you'd think they'd have run out of them by now, and all of them sound positively Faithful to Allah in their jihadiness.