AUSTRALIA: Another scapegoat or two bite the dust!
Johnny B Good | 05.01.2007 07:28 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World
John Howard the rocket launcher and his AFP now lay the blame of lost rocket launchers on a scapegoat in custody. Typical propaganda to make himself look good. Again! But now there is a specific target and I strongly suggest it's John Howard's war on terror and how much of a boost he can give to his fear factor so he can continue war mongering!
John Howard the rocket launcher and his AFP
Not only does this well thought of propaganda alleviate the responsibility of the War Forces for the loss of the rocket launchers but lays the blame on a prisoner in custody.
Killing two birds or let's say four birds with one stone, i.e. Howard for purporting the propaganda, NSW police for not investigating the matter for four years, but also Peter Debnam for his lies blaming Islamic Muslims in southwest Sydney. When we all know that this had nothing to do with Muslims or Islamic extremists but more to do with the failure of the ADF.
But the failure of the ADF to maintain arms in a secure place only applies if the story had any substance at all. Because if it were all bullshit and it looks like it was then John Howard has done it again. His propaganda via Peter Debnam failed miserably and now he has to cover up for his own lies.
My point is how low can a war criminal prime minister and his Mick Guilty go! And how would you or anyone believe what police say ever again?
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Police tightlipped on rocket target
Police say there is evidence that rocket launchers stolen from the Australian Defence Force were going to be used against a specific target.
Sydney man Abdul Rahman was today charged over the supply of the stolen weapons.
Police allege the 28-year-old received seven rocket launchers stolen from the Australian Defence Force and passed them on to two men.
One of those men was arrested and charged in counter-terrorism raids in Sydney in November.
Rahman has been charged with 17 offences, including dishonestly receiving stolen property and supplying a prohibited weapon without authorisation.
Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty says there is evidence of a plan to use the weapons.
"We do know and have evidence of a proposed target. I don't want to reveal the target right now because it may be that those details are suppressed by the court," he said.
"The assertions we have from a witness is that there was a particular target that had been identified by the individual and the group the individual had been operating with. That was a property and we are aware of that property."
Police recovered one rocket launcher at a Sydney property in September and have confirmed it appears to have come from the Department of Defence.
The AFP are carrying out a joint investigation with ASIO and New South Wales Police to try and track down six more rocket launchers that are believed to have been stolen. [four years after the fact!]
Rahman's case has been adjourned until January 10.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1822190.htm
[What a load of scapegoat rubbish]
ps) and the lousy police pic doesn't do it for me! Why are we all so stupid?
Related:
Community probe reports of AFP training with CIA and M15
"We can determine that there have been other reports about the illegal and degrading wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the complicity of the AFP in the Bali bombing in 2002, and now the fire sale of Australian military hardware, including a rocket launcher found on a tip. After the rocket launchers that went missing from the Australia War Force just recently and that's part of the inquiries that we are making," They said.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/135553.php
Rocket launcher found at Yeppoon tip
Police and the Defence Department are investigating the discovery of a discarded rocket launcher at a suburban rubbish tip at Yeppoon in central Queensland.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1820411.htm
Xenophobic rocket launcher, so why was it reported really?
Police say they are unsure if the claims, published in a 'Sunday newspaper', are true and they are now being investigated. [So why was it reported today by howard's 'abc' and the 'Melbourne age'?
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/50226
Rocket launcher seized from Angels
A rocket-launcher was among a cache of weapons seized during raids on residences and premises of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.
Armed police went to at least six locations around the greater Darwin region. The Hells Angels' clubhouse was also searched in the dawn raids.
Sixty-two police officers from CIB, the Drug Squad and the elite Territory Response Group were called out on Sunday.
"We raided the clubhouse, a couple of residences and a couple of associates' residences,'' a police source told the Northern Territory News.
Commander of Crime George Owen said the main purpose of the raids was to look for stolen property. He refused to confirm that a substantial quantity of amphetamines and illegal weapons were seized.
"That wasn't the primary focus of the warrants,'' Cdr Owen said.
"The search warrants executed on Sunday were in relation to a complaint of robbery by a victim.
"We seized items allegedly stolen from the victim _ there was quite a bit of stuff.''
Cdr Owen refused to comment on whether a high-powered rocket-launcher was also seized.
But the Northern Territory News has learned the weapon was among several items seized.
"We got a heap of stuff _ glock pistols, drugs, mainly amphetamines, and a rocket-launcher,'' the source said.
Northern Territory News
http://dinosmc.com/bikernew.htm
How Much?
I wonder if they're selling them?
HELL'S Angels bikies in the Northern Territory are involved in the production of rocket launchers, a bikie source says.
http://spanishredneck.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_spanishredneck_archive.htm
Killing two birds or let's say four birds with one stone, i.e. Howard for purporting the propaganda, NSW police for not investigating the matter for four years, but also Peter Debnam for his lies blaming Islamic Muslims in southwest Sydney. When we all know that this had nothing to do with Muslims or Islamic extremists but more to do with the failure of the ADF.
But the failure of the ADF to maintain arms in a secure place only applies if the story had any substance at all. Because if it were all bullshit and it looks like it was then John Howard has done it again. His propaganda via Peter Debnam failed miserably and now he has to cover up for his own lies.
My point is how low can a war criminal prime minister and his Mick Guilty go! And how would you or anyone believe what police say ever again?
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Police tightlipped on rocket target
Police say there is evidence that rocket launchers stolen from the Australian Defence Force were going to be used against a specific target.
Sydney man Abdul Rahman was today charged over the supply of the stolen weapons.
Police allege the 28-year-old received seven rocket launchers stolen from the Australian Defence Force and passed them on to two men.
One of those men was arrested and charged in counter-terrorism raids in Sydney in November.
Rahman has been charged with 17 offences, including dishonestly receiving stolen property and supplying a prohibited weapon without authorisation.
Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty says there is evidence of a plan to use the weapons.
"We do know and have evidence of a proposed target. I don't want to reveal the target right now because it may be that those details are suppressed by the court," he said.
"The assertions we have from a witness is that there was a particular target that had been identified by the individual and the group the individual had been operating with. That was a property and we are aware of that property."
Police recovered one rocket launcher at a Sydney property in September and have confirmed it appears to have come from the Department of Defence.
The AFP are carrying out a joint investigation with ASIO and New South Wales Police to try and track down six more rocket launchers that are believed to have been stolen. [four years after the fact!]
Rahman's case has been adjourned until January 10.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1822190.htm [What a load of scapegoat rubbish]
ps) and the lousy police pic doesn't do it for me! Why are we all so stupid?
Related:
Community probe reports of AFP training with CIA and M15
"We can determine that there have been other reports about the illegal and degrading wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the complicity of the AFP in the Bali bombing in 2002, and now the fire sale of Australian military hardware, including a rocket launcher found on a tip. After the rocket launchers that went missing from the Australia War Force just recently and that's part of the inquiries that we are making," They said.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/135553.php Rocket launcher found at Yeppoon tip
Police and the Defence Department are investigating the discovery of a discarded rocket launcher at a suburban rubbish tip at Yeppoon in central Queensland.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1820411.htm Xenophobic rocket launcher, so why was it reported really?
Police say they are unsure if the claims, published in a 'Sunday newspaper', are true and they are now being investigated. [So why was it reported today by howard's 'abc' and the 'Melbourne age'?
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/50226 Rocket launcher seized from Angels
A rocket-launcher was among a cache of weapons seized during raids on residences and premises of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.
Armed police went to at least six locations around the greater Darwin region. The Hells Angels' clubhouse was also searched in the dawn raids.
Sixty-two police officers from CIB, the Drug Squad and the elite Territory Response Group were called out on Sunday.
"We raided the clubhouse, a couple of residences and a couple of associates' residences,'' a police source told the Northern Territory News.
Commander of Crime George Owen said the main purpose of the raids was to look for stolen property. He refused to confirm that a substantial quantity of amphetamines and illegal weapons were seized.
"That wasn't the primary focus of the warrants,'' Cdr Owen said.
"The search warrants executed on Sunday were in relation to a complaint of robbery by a victim.
"We seized items allegedly stolen from the victim _ there was quite a bit of stuff.''
Cdr Owen refused to comment on whether a high-powered rocket-launcher was also seized.
But the Northern Territory News has learned the weapon was among several items seized.
"We got a heap of stuff _ glock pistols, drugs, mainly amphetamines, and a rocket-launcher,'' the source said.
Northern Territory News
http://dinosmc.com/bikernew.htm How Much?
I wonder if they're selling them?
HELL'S Angels bikies in the Northern Territory are involved in the production of rocket launchers, a bikie source says.
http://spanishredneck.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_spanishredneck_archive.htm
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05.01.2007 08:20
Bought from a tip in central Queensland for $2
Bikies building bazookas
HELL'S Angels bikies are involved in the production of rocket launchers, a bikie source says.
The source claims an associate of the Hell's Angels bikie gang in Darwin has produced rocket launchers in the rural area.
It is claimed the associate obtained a copy of The Terrorists Handbook down-loaded from the internet.
The 150-page dossier details how bombs and explosives can be made, and includes instructions on what materials are required to build a rocket launcher.
A bikie source alleges the manufacturer of the weapons is making rocket launchers in an industrial shed complete with a machine press. NT Police are aware of the allegations but have declined to comment on whether officers have interviewed the associate alleged to be involved.
Police media manager Sue Bradley would only say that, ``it is Special Operations Section policy not to comment on operational issues such as this pertaining to any high-risk crime group or their associates''.
It is not the first time that the Hell's Angels in Darwin have been linked to the manufacturing, buying or selling of rocket launchers.
In May 2003, a rocket launcher was believed to have been among a cache of weapons seized during raids on residences and premises of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang.
Also understood to have been seized during those raids were police-issue pistols and a substantial quantity of amphetamines.
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Pubdate: Wed, 31 May 2006
Source: Northern Territory News (Australia)
Copyright: 2006 Northern Territory News
Contact: ntnmail (at) ntn.newsltd.com.au
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A rocket launcher similar to the one that a man bought from a tip in central Queensland for $2
The type of single-use "fire-and-forget" rocket launcher found in a central Queensland town tip and handed into police this morning is used by two overseas defence forces that recently underwent live-fire exercises at a nearby army training area.
The Department of Defence's acting director-general of communications, Colonel Pup Elliott, told smh.com.au the weapon was not Australian Defence Force ordnance.
"I can tell you from the photo straight away it's not one of ours, it's not one of the weapons we use in our inventory."
It is believed the weapon came from the Shoalwater military training area, a short distance from the town of Yeppoon, near Rockhampton, where the tip was located.
Colonel Elliott said the weapon could be traced to an overseas force that recently used the training area.
"We've certainly had soldiers from Singapore, we've had US Marines and [US Army] and I think they all have it in their inventory.
"So we're just going to have ask who had it, and how they accounted for it."
The Matador anti-armour rocket launcher is a 90mm single-use weapon designed by the Singaporean army.
The launcher - already fired and therefore not an immediate threat - was found at a recycling centre attached to a tip at Yeppoon by local man James Maloney.
He told local paper The Morning Bulletin he had paid $2 for it.
"I work in the local theatre restaurant and wanted to use it as a stage prop," he said.
However, when he read a story in a local paper about the army misplacing rocket launchers - based on a story in the Herald - he decided to hand the weapon over.
He gave the weapon to a reporter from The Morning Bulletin who, after contacting the Department of Defence and being told the weapon was not dangerous, kept it for a number of days to photograph it and write a story.
This led to a period of confusion when local police, contacted by Defence, were unable to establish the whereabouts of the weapon.
"The police rang me earlier this evening and they told me they didn't know where it was so I redirected them back to the reporter," Mr Maloney said earlier this week, adding that the last time he saw the weapon was in the back seat of the reporter's car.
The reporter handed it into Yeppoon police station this morning at 8.30am local time (9.30am AEST).
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Army chief tight-lipped on rocket launcher theft reports
Chief of the Army, Lieutenant General Peter Leahy, says the military is cooperating with an investigation about the possible theft of high-powered weapons.
Earlier this year, a Sydney court heard a rocket launcher was found in the city's south-west before a fatal double shooting three years ago.
It was not used in the attack.
Last month New South Wales police said it was the subject of an ongoing investigation.
Now there are claims other rocket launchers may have been stolen from the Army.
Lieutenant General Leahy says the army is cooperating with authorities.
"This is an ongoing security investigation in which the state, federal and Army authorities are involved," he said.
"I'm really not at liberty to talk very much about it.
"I'm sure that you understand ongoing operational and security matters, there's a great potential to compromise a whole range of things, so I would ask that you understand that that's really all I am able to say."
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Someone deserves a rocket
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Gotcha with Gary Hughes
If the Australian Defence Force’s role is to protect us, who is protecting us from the ADF? The army has taken the extraordinary step of calling in Australia’s top spy agency ASIO to help it count its anti-tank rockets amid fears that up to nine of them might have gone missing and fallen into the hands of criminals. The move follows the discovery in Victoria that a sergeant allegedly stole enough weapons, including machine guns, from a military base to equip a small army.
The announcement of ASIO’s oversight of an audit of shoulder-fired LAW anti-tank rockets was made late yesterday in an announcement by Defence Minister Brendan Nelson. In the meantime the issue of any more of the one-use rockets has been halted.
The audit of the rockets will be followed by a security review of all ADF weapons, munitions and explosive, which will also be led by ASIO.
Last week it was revealed that NSW Police had paid $50,000 for one of the 66mm light anti-armour rockets, which had been obtained by a ethnic Sydney crime faction. The hunt for a further eight rocket launchers is underway. The rockets are believed to have been stolen from the ADF, although this has yet to be confirmed.
These rockets carry the label “light”, but don’t be fooled. The rockets, which can be easily fired by one person, can penetrate more than 300mm of armour and can be used as a “bunker buster” against enemy fortifications. Against a civilian target, such as an ordinary vehicle or a house, they would be devastating. They have a maximum range of 350 metres and can be fired at moving targets.
Earlier this week details of the weapons allegedly stolen along with truck loads of other equipment from the Puckapunyal army camp in Victoria were revealed. They included:
• 22 high-explosive grenades
• 7.62mm M60 machinegun
• F1 sub-machinegun
• 5.56mm M16 semi-automatic assault rifle
• A survival rifle
• A pistol
• Up to 500,000 rounds of ammunition.
In yesterday’s statement, Brendan Nelson said an audit of current weapons at Puckapunyal had been completed and all stocks were accounted for. Similarly, the current holdings of the LAW rockets had been accounted for, apart from those being used by troops on deployment. Historical records of weapons were now being checked.
But clearly, if someone can walk out of Puckapunyal with machine guns and automatic rifles without being detected, those records may not be all that accurate. And how many other military weapons might have been previously stolen from military bases and trafficked to criminals?
“The Government takes this issue very seriously,” Brendan Nelson said. About time.
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Sydney (dpa) - Australian police believe rogue elements in the Army may be behind the black market sale of rocket launchers after only one of nine anti-tank weapons suspected to have been stolen was recovered, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Friday.
The theft of military weapons was uncommon, according to Australia Defence Association executive director Neil James, but security systems were not foolproof.
He said the only previous case of a rocket launcher being used by civilians in Australia was an incident between two criminal gangs in the 1980s. That rocket launcher had been smuggled in from abroad.
The military have not confirmed that it has lost weaponry.
"Large weapon thefts from the military is actually reasonably rare, but every so often the odd weapon does go missing, generally it's an internal job," James said. "Any system is not completely foolproof, especially to an inside job, that's why most bank fraud is done by bank employees."
The recovered rocket launcher had its serial number filed off, making it impossible for police to determine its provenance. It was recovered after police paid a bounty to an underworld figure, the paper claimed.
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