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Teens charged with terrorism and extremism offences

Nathan Schmidt & Adelaide Lang April 25 2024, 2:02pm

Five teenagers have faced court after they were charged with terrorism and extremism offences following an investigation into the stabbing of a Sydney bishop.

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was allegedly stabbed six times by a 16-year-old boy who remains in custody after being charged with a terrorism offence.

On Wednesday, more than 400 officers were involved in sweeping searches across Sydney and Goulburn as part of a counter terrorism investigation linked to the religious leader's stabbing.

Police arrested five teenagers who they allege are associates of the 16-year-old charged with the stabbing at the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley on August 15.

Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was stabbed at his Sydney church. Picture: Twitter

All five teens, who are aged between 14 and 17, were charged with terrorism and extremism offences.

A 17-year-old boy was charged with conspiring to engage in an act in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act and having a knife in a public place.

He did not apply for bail when he appeared via audiovisual link before Parramatta Children's Court on Thursday.

The teen's lawyer indicated he will make an application for release on Tuesday.

Two 16-year-old boys were also charged with conspiring to engage in an act in preparation fo, or planning, a terrorist act.

They did not apply for bail when they appeared before the court separately.

A 14-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy were charged with possessing violent extremist material accessed using a carriage device, such as a mobile phone.

Both will appear before the children’s court on Thursday afternoon to apply for bail.

The arrests come more than a week after Bishop Emmanuel was attacked during the live-streamed service, sparking an alleged riot outside the Wakeley church.

The 16-year-old alleged stabber was detained by parishioners. Picture: Twitter

Seven people have been arrested after police carried out 13 search warrants. Picture: NSW Police

In a statement, police said 13 search warrants were executed in Bankstown, Prestons, Casula, Lurnea, Rydalmere, Greenacre, Strathfield, Chester Hill, and Punchbowl.

A property in Goulburn was also searched before seven juvenile males were arrested.

A further five people, including two men and three juvenile males, are assisting police.

Operational activity by the Joint Counter Terrorism Team in Sydney, which includes NSW Police, AFP, ASIO, and NSW Crime Commission officers, is still ongoing.

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Australia unites against Musk to take down terror posts

By Dominic Giannini and Tess Ikonomou, 22 April 2024 4:00pm

Elon Musk says X will fight the eSafety commissioner's order to take down offensive content. (AP Photo)

Political unity against social media giant X for fighting to keep potentially harmful content online has reinvigorated a push to crack down on graphic material.

Leading politicians have taken aim at comments from X chief executive Elon Musk, with one labelling him an "egotistical billionaire".

The federal government and opposition have backed efforts for graphic content - including of a stabbing massacre at a Sydney shopping centre - to be taken down from X, formerly Twitter.

It has led to a renewed focus on a government bill that would have tackled misinformation online that was temporarily shelved after the opposition argued it went too far and impacted free speech.

Opposition communications spokesman David Coleman said the coalition was willing to work with the government to curtail violent content online.

He also wants the government to adopt an age verification trial "so fewer kids see this awful material".

X has raised concerns about censorship, the jurisdiction of Australian laws and edicts dictating what overseas users can see.

Powers allowing the eSafety commissioner to issue a global takedown order to companies that had servers hosted overseas were put in place to deal with a scenario such as this, Mr Coleman said.

X said it would challenge an order from the eSafety commissioner.

It said the commissioner did not have the authority to enforce what users could see globally, branding the move an "unlawful and dangerous approach".

Global takedown orders also violated the principle of an open internet and threatened free speech, it said.

The response has irked all sides of politics in Australia.

"It beggars belief, doesn't it, that this egotistical billionaire thinks it's more important for him to show whatever he wants on X or Twitter ... than to respect the victims of the crimes," Labor frontbencher Tanya Plibersek told Seven's Sunrise program.

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young called for Mr Musk to front an Australian parliamentary inquiry and answer questions about algorithms that help content go viral and garner attention.

"These laws need to get to the heart of the problem and that is the profits they make off the algorithms they use and the data that they use," she said.

"It's no wonder that Elon Musk, the narcissistic cowboy, thinks he can just give the middle finger to the Australian government because for too long, we've had little to no regulation."

Liberal frontbencher Simon Birmingham said the use of social media advanced algorithms and technology to quickly target users meant platforms should be able to "quickly and effectively remove content that is damaging and devastating to the social harmony and fabric of society".

"Particularly images such as terrorist attacks," Senator Birmingham told ABC TV.

"We should expect that, we should demand it and we will certainly back the government to put in place the types of powers or penalties that make social media companies pay attention."

He also rejected claims about censorship.

It was an "insulting and offensive argument" to say the removal of imagery of a terrorist attack was censorship and it should be left unfiltered for children and others to see, Senator Birmingham said.

There was also the potential images could be used to inspire future terrorists, create disharmony and be manipulated for propaganda, he added.

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The perpetrator may have had fingers severed during attack by irate parishioners.

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Palestinian activists get their message across on Londons iconic Tower Bridge landmark- one of the cities most historic buildings. We need a ceasefire now.

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PFLP after it’s founding

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Right to defend themselves, right? Resistance is soo beautiful, isn't it?

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6 killed in Sydney mall stabbing; police say terror not ruled out as motive

By AFP 13 April 2024, 1:09pm

Emergency officers stand by with stretchers outside Westfield Shopping Centre where multiple people were stabbed in Sydney, April 13, 2024 (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

SYDNEY - Six people were killed and several others injured - including a small child - when a knife-wielding attack rampage through a busy Sydney shopping centre on Saturday, Australian police said.

Multiple people were stabbed by the unidentified assailant, who was shot dead by a policewoman at the scene.

The incident occurred at the sprawling Westfield Bondi Junction mall complex, which was packed with Saturday afternoon shoppers.

"I'm advised that there are five victims who are now deceased as a result of the actions of this offender," said New South Wales police assistant commissioner Anthony Cooke. The death toll later rose to six.

The motive was not immediately clear, but Cooke said "terrorism" could not be ruled out at this stage.

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Far-right extremist admits hosting terror website

Oliver Wright - BBC News Fri 12 April 2024 3:28am

Colin McNeil is due to be sentenced at Sheffield Crown Court on 5 July [PA Media]

A far-right extremist who ran a website used by convicted international terrorists is facing jail after admitting four terrorism charges.

Colin McNeil, 46, pleaded guilty to distributing a terrorist publication with the intention of encouraging acts of terrorism at Sheffield Crown Court.

Counter terror police said McNeil, from Leeds, "showed admiration for terrorist publications on his website" and shared "racist and extreme right-wing views".

He is due to be sentenced on 5 July.

McNeil was arrested in March 2022 by Counter Terrorism Policing North East (CTPNE) after investigators found the website he operated was being used to share material supporting extreme right-wing ideologies.

CTPNE said when he became aware of the material "he continued to play an active role in its administration" and share his own views.

A spokesperson said the website was used by "a number of likeminded convicted international terrorists" to further their ideologies.

Det Ch Supt James Dunkerley said: "There is simply no place for racism in our society. We will continue to seek out those that facilitate and distribute these harmful ideologies.

"Removing harmful, violent and extremist content online is critical to our efforts to reduce the spread of terrorist material and propaganda."

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Teenager charged with plotting Satanic terror attack on homeless person

By Martin Evans, 3 April 2024 8:00pm

18-year-old alleged to be member of organisation with links to Nazi occult group and is remanded in custody

A teenager has appeared in court accused of plotting a Satanic terror attack against a homeless person.

Cameron Finnegan, 18, was arrested last month following an investigation by detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE).

The defendant, from Horsham in West Sussex, is accused of being a member of an extremist Right-wing Satanic online organisation called 764, which has alleged links to a Nazi occult group known as the Order of Nine Angels (ONA).

The groups have been linked to several terror investigations in Britain and the United States and allegedly promote murder, sexual abuse, self-harm, and terrorism.

It is alleged that when the teenager was arrested, he was in possession of a terrorist "kill guide" and was plotting to attack a homeless person who was living in a tent.

Defendant also faces child pornography charge

Mr Finnegan, who lives with his sister and adoptive parents in a £1 million home, was also arrested on suspicion of possessing indecent images of a child.

He was arrested on March 26 and charged on Wednesday.

He was charged with one count of preparation of terrorist acts, one count of possessing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, and one count of possessing indecent images of a child.

Appearing at Westminster magistrates' court on Wednesday, he spoke only to confirm his name, date of birth and address.

He was remanded in custody until his next court appearance at the Old Bailey on April 12.

The ONA was founded in the UK in the 1970s and has links to Nazism, starting its calender from the birth of Adolf Hitler.

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After terror attack, Russia sees U.S. role and claims it is at war with NATO

By Robyn Dixon, April 3 2024 at 2:22pm

The Russian flag flies at half-staff on March 28 in memory of the victims of a terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, outside Moscow. (Yuri Kochetkov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

RIGA, Latvia — In the aftermath of last month’s terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue outside Moscow, Russian officials not only have blamed Ukraine but also have repeatedly accused the West of involvement — even though U.S. officials insist they gave Moscow a specific warning that the Islamic State could attack the venue.

If the U.S. warning was so detailed, it raises further questions about Russia’s failure to prevent the country’s worst terrorist attack in two decades. But rather than publicly confronting questions about their own actions, Russian security officials have disregarded the claims of responsibility by the Islamic State.

Instead, they have insisted that U.S. and British intelligence were involved in helping Ukraine organize the strike.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment Wednesday on a report in The Washington Post that U.S intelligence specifically warned Russia that Crocus City Hall could be a target for terrorists. The New York Times published a similar report shortly after The Post.

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev on Wednesday directly blamed Ukrainian security services for the Crocus City Hall attack, in which at least 114 people were killed. Patrushev also hinted at Western involvement.

A day earlier, he accused Western intelligence of using terrorist groups to attack adversaries.

“They are trying to make us think that the terrorist attack was perpetrated not by the Kyiv regime but by followers of radical Islamic ideology, possibly members of the Afghan branch of [the Islamic State],” Patrushev said at a meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan, of security council secretaries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization nations. He said it was more important to identify the “masterminds and sponsors,” squarely blaming Ukrainian security services. He added that numerous hoax bomb threats have emanated from Ukrainian territory since the attack.

“It is also indicative that the West began insisting on Ukraine’s noninvolvement in the crime as soon as the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall was reported,” Patrushev said.

Russia’s blame game comes amid increasingly confrontational anti-NATO rhetoric from top security officials who insist that the U.S.-led alliance is fighting a “war” against Russia. Several of these officials have hinted repeatedly about Russia’s potential use of nuclear weapons.

NATO officials continue to assert the alliance’s right to supply Ukraine the weapons it needs to defend its territory.

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev in Moscow in 2022. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images)

Since the Crocus City Hall attack, Russian officials have subtly framed the violence as part of that “war,” while barely mentioning the Islamic State’s Afghanistan branch, Islamic State-Khorasan, or ISIS-K, which U.S. intelligence officials have said was responsible.

U.S. intelligence also warned last month that terrorists could attack a Moscow synagogue. A day after receiving the warning, on March 7, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had prevented an attack on a Moscow synagogue by an ISIS-K cell.

Asked if the United States warned Russia that Crocus City Hall was a possible target for a terrorist attack and whether a U.S. warning helped the FSB avert the synagogue attack, Peskov on Wednesday declined to confirm the report.

“Okay, I see,” he said. “This is not our competence because such information exchanges are conducted at the level of specialized services, and the information is transmitted directly from service to service.”

The spokeswoman for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, on Wednesday alleged a disinformation campaign by Washington and said the U.S. government should prove that the reports in The Post and the Times were true by disclosing when and to whom the detailed warning was given.

At least two members of the cell that planned the synagogue attack, based in the Kaluga region, were killed by FSB agents when they opened fire during arrest, according to the agency, which reported that the cell was planning to attack the synagogue using firearms. Kazakhstan confirmed that two of its citizens were killed in the raid.

Four days after the Crocus City Hall attack, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov blamed Ukraine and said Western security services were involved.

“We believe that the action was prepared by radical Islamists, naturally, Western security services contributed to it, and Ukrainian security services bore a direct relation,” Bortnikov told reporters.

Patrushev told the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper in an interview published Tuesday that Washington used NATO as a tool to carry out hybrid wars “to undermine and disorganize the system of state administration of countries that do not agree with the policy of the Anglo-Saxons.”

“At the same time, the alliance does not disdain using terrorist organizations in its interests,” he said. NATO, he said, “has been a source of danger, crises and conflicts for many years.”

Three days before the Crocus City Hall attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin had dismissed the U.S. warnings, calling them “outright blackmail” and attempts to “intimidate and destabilize our society.”

Putin and other Russian officials have made no mention of the U.S. intelligence supplied in relation to the planned synagogue attack.

In an interview with Argumenty i Fakty published on the morning of the Crocus City Hall strike, Peskov said NATO was waging a war against Russia, repeating a linchpin of Kremlin propaganda used to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and to mobilize Russia’s population behind the war.

“We are in a state of war. Yes, it started out as a special military operation, but as soon as that bunch formed there, when the collective West became a participant in this on the side of Ukraine, it has already become a war for us. I am convinced of that. And everyone should understand this, for their internal mobilization,” Peskov said.

Putin alleged a Ukrainian link to the Crocus City Hall terrorists the day after the attack when he told Russians in a speech to the nation that “a window was prepared for them from the Ukraine side to cross the state border.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin appears on a screen onstage in Moscow's Red Square last month. (Reuters)

Top pro-Kremlin propagandists, including Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of the RT news channel, ramped up attacks blaming Ukraine and the West. In a post on social media, she asserted that Western intelligence clearly played a direct role in the Crocus City Hall attack because it had identified the perpetrators.

“They knew who the perpetrators were. Before the detention. That’s direct involvement,” Simonyan posted, later adding that the source of the attack was “not ISIS,” but Ukraine.

Likewise, Russian lawmaker Alexander Yakubovsky claimed that “the Nazi terrorist regime of Ukraine is behind this terrorist attack, possibly using radical Islamists, but without Western intelligence services it is impossible to pull this off.”

Another hard-line Russian lawmaker, Pyotr Tolstoy, posted on Telegram that the attack could not be seen apart from “the war with the collective West for the peaceful futures of our children.”

The Kremlin’s effort to blame Ukraine and the West for the attack appears to have succeeded in mobilizing Russians around the war effort. Russia’s Defense Ministry announced Wednesday that 1,700 Russians a day were signing contracts to fight in Ukraine, many of them, it added, motivated by the Crocus City Hall attack. In the past 10 days, 16,000 people have signed contracts, it announced.

Shortly after the U.S. warnings were shared with Russia, the authorities did tighten security at Crocus City Hall, according to a 15-year-old coat-check boy, Islam Khalilov. He told Russian media: “We were warned a week ago that there might be attacks. There was training. They told us what to do, where to lead people. I was ready for it in principle. That week there were the toughest checks, with dogs.”

But just days later, on a busy Friday evening, four gunmen rampaged through Crocus City Hall, shooting concertgoers and setting the hall on fire without any resistance, according to video from the scene.

It remains unclear why security was loosened again. Russian officials — and pro-Kremlin news outlets — have steered clear of the question, instead focusing on blaming Ukraine and the West.

Putin, speaking at an Interior Ministry meeting Tuesday, called for increased security at concert venues, shopping centers and other places where crowds gather.

“It’s important above all to bring law, order and security at crowded places, at sports and transport facilities, shopping and recreation centers, schools, hospitals, colleges, theaters and so on up to a new level,” he said.

Russia’s foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, claimed Tuesday that U.S. intelligence on the Crocus City Hall attack was too general to be of help.

“Indeed, the FSB did receive information,” he said. “The information was too general and did not allow the ultimate identification of perpetrators of the horrible crime.”

Shane Harris in Washington and Natalia Abbakumova in Riga contributed to this report.

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Why Russia fears the emergence of Tajik terrorists

By Richard Foltz

Mukhammadsobir Faizov, a suspect in Friday's shooting at the Crocus City Hall sits in a glass cage in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow. (AP: Alexander Zemlianichenko)

It has emerged that the four gunmen charged in the murder of at least 139 concert-goers at Moscow's Crocus City Hall theatre were all citizens of the small post-Soviet nation of Tajikistan in Central Asia.

Does their nationality have anything to do with their alleged terrorism? Many Russians probably think so.

Tajikistan, a landlocked country of 10 million sandwiched between Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and China, is the most impoverished of the former Soviet republics. Known for its corruption and political repression, it has chafed under the iron-fisted rule of President Emomali Rahmon since 1994.

There are estimated to be well over 3 million Tajiks living in Russia, about one-third of the total Tajik population. Most of them hold the precarious status of "guest workers," holding low-paying jobs in construction, produce markets or even cleaning public toilets.

While Russia's declining population has led to increasing reliance on foreign workers to fill such needs within its labour force, the attitude of Russians towards natives of Central Asia and the Caucasus region is generally negative.

It's similar to the American stereotype about Mexicans so infamously expressed by Donald Trump in 2015: "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists."

Non-Slavs are systematically discriminated against in Russia, and since 2022 they have been disproportionately conscripted and send to Ukraine to serve as cannon fodder at the front.

This photo was taken in April 2015. A Tajik migrant municipal worker carries Russian national and Moscow city flags to decorate a department store near Red Square in Moscow. (AP: Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Tajik exclusion

As I have described in a recent book, few nations in history have seen their standing so dramatically reduced as the Tajiks have over the past 100 years.

For more than millennium, the Tajiks -Persian-speaking descendants of the ancient Sogdians who dominated the Silk Road - were Central Asia's cultural elite.

Beginning with what's known as the New Persian Renaissance of the 10th century when their capital, Bukhara, came to rival Baghdad as a centre of Islamic learning and high culture, Tajiks were the principal scholars and bureaucrats of Central Asia's major cities right up to the time of the Russian Revolution.

The famous medieval polymath Avicenna was an ethnic Tajik, as were the hadith collector Bukhari, the Sufi poet Rumi, and many others.

But as the most significant purveyors of Central Asia's Islamic civilization, Tajiks were seen by the Bolsheviks as representing an obsolete legacy that socialism aimed to overcome.

This photo was taken in 2006. Residents of Dosti, a town in southern Tajikistan, press against a fence seeking government compensation for damages caused by a strong earthquake. (AP: Sergei Grits)

The Tajiks were virtually excluded from the massive social and political restructuring imposed on Central Asia during the early years of the Soviet Union, with most of their historical territory, including the fabled cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, being awarded to the Turkic-speaking Uzbeks who were seen as being more malleable.

Only as late as 1929 were the Tajiks given their own republic, consisting mostly of marginal, mountainous territory and deprived of any major urban centres.

An impoverished region

Throughout the 20th century, the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic was the most impoverished and underdeveloped region of the former Soviet Union, and it has retained that unfortunate status since independence in 1991.

From 1992-1997, the country was plunged into a devastating civil war that destroyed what infrastructure remained from the Soviet period. Since that time, Rahmon has used the threat of renewed civil conflict to vindicate his absolute rule.

The spectre of radical Islam emanating from neighbouring Afghanistan - where the Tajik population considerably outnumbers that of Tajikistan - has provided additional justification for Rahmon's repressive policies.

In today's Tajikistan even those with a university education find it almost impossible to earn a salary that would enable them to build a normal family life.

A Tajikistan family bakes bread in their home in the village of Dakhana Kiik. (AP: Sergei Grits)

Disempowered and humiliated by the system, they are easy prey for radical Islamic preachers who give them a sense of value and purpose.

The added backdrop of financial desperation makes for an explosive cocktail: one of the suspects in the recent Moscow attacks reportedly told his Russian interrogators that he was promised a cash reward of half a million Russian rubles (about US$5,300) to carry out his alleged atrocities..

Terrorism as desperation?

Normal, sane human beings everywhere are horrified by terrorist acts regardless of how they are justified by their perpetrators, and the long-suffering people of Tajikistan are no exception.

One of the four terrorism suspects Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda sits in a glass cage in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow. (Reuters: Yulia Morozova)

But unfortunately, the conditions under which a small number of extremists can perceive the psychopathic murder of innocent civilians for cash or ideology as an attractive option show no signs of abating.

Russia's laughable attempt to somehow link the Moscow attacks to Ukraine is a clumsy diversion from the consequences of its relations with Central Asia.

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France has raised its terror alert to its highest level

By Eamonn Sheridan, Mon 25th Mar 2024 08:07 GMT+11

France has raised its terror alert to its highest level. This follows a security and defence council meeting, convened by French President Macron.

France's Prime Minister says its due to the ISIS attack in Moscow and "threats facing" France.

On Sunday Russia held a day of mourning after the terrorist attack that killed at least 137 people at a Moscow concert venue. Terrorism is unwelcome everywhere.

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