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Australia foils major attack

Authorities foiled what they believed to be a large-scale terrorist attack, arresting 15 people during raids in the country's two biggest cities of Sydney and Melbourne, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported on Tuesday.

"I am satisfied that we have disrupted what I would regard as the final stages of a large-scale terrorist attack, or the launch of a large-scale terrorist attack here in Australia," New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney told ABC radio

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A man shot by police in Sydney's west is one of several people arrested in a series of anti-terrorist raids across the city, police say.

A man aged in his 20s was shot in the chest on Wilson Road, Green Valley, about 9am (AEST), a NSW police spokesman said.

NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney has confirmed the man was shot by a police officer.

An ambulance spokeswoman said a police officer received "scuffle-related" minor injuries during the incident.

Police said roads were closed in the Green Valley area after a suspicious package was found on Wilson Road.

"Officers from the NSW Police Rescue and Bomb Disposal Unit are examining the scene," the police spokesman said.

He said preliminary investigations revealed the injured man was one of several people arrested in raids.

A joint police press release earlier said eight suspects had been arrested in Sydney, but NSW police later said only seven had been taken into custody.

"During the overnight raids, seven people have been arrested, including the man who was shot," the spokesman said.

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Melbourne terror suspects 'wanted jihad'

Nine men arrested overnight in anti-terrorism raids formed a group aimed at carrying out a jihad or holy war, a Melbourne court has been told.

Prosecutor Richard Maidment QC told the Melbourne Magistrate's court the nine formed a terrorist group to kill "innocent men and women in Australia"

The nine include Osama Bin Laden supporter, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, also known as Abu Bakr.

The Melbourne suspects had been planning terrorist crimes for more than 12 months, Mr Maidment said.

"There's been talk within the Melbourne group that the Sydney group are further ahead than them and they wanted to do something about that," Mr Maidment said.

"The members of the Sydney group have been gathering chemicals of a kind that were used in the London Underground bombings.

"They've been involved in military training and were planning a weekend in Ocean Grove (south-west of Melbourne).

"It is alleged that all of the persons who have been before the court this morning along with another not presently in custody constitutes a terrorist organisation.

"That organisation is directed by the defendant Benbrika.

"Each of the members of the group are committed to the cause of violent jihad."

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A Melbourne court has been told a man allegedly connected to a Melbourne terrorist group wanted to seek revenge for actions in Iraq.

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A New South Wales police charge sheet says the men have been charged with conspiracy to do an act in preparation to do a terrorism act, mainly to manufacture explosives.

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"This is of course a very big surprise to the Muslim community that you know this happened,"

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"But I guess for some people it wasn't, because the way events have been unfolding in the last week or so - there was some expectation that something like that would occur."

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This refers to our Prime Minister's calling of an 'emergency' press conference last week to announce that he was recalling the Senate immediately to push through an urgent amendment to our Anti-Terrorism legislation. The full story on that is here ABC last week.

And now I have to go and watch The Bill - there's a storyline about an anti-terrorist act of terrorism!

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The story even made the front page of our local newspaper.

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(I hope you've enjoyed clashing wits as much as I have, Roos!)

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As soon as I actually have to use my wits I certainly shall enjoy doing so Ing.

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This was an example of propaganda projection, or inversion, “zamena teza” in Serbian, psychologically projecting one’s own crimes onto the enemy. The Bosnian Muslim forces were routinely and systematically cutting or slitting the throats of Bosnian Serb civilians and soldiers. This Bosnian Muslim war crime was then imputed to the Bosnian Serbs. Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung termed this “the shadow”, projecting the worst vices and crimes onto an Enemy or Other. The person consciously blocks out his or her own guilt or knowledge of culpability, denies or suppresses it, while projection into onto another, or the Other, the Enemy, the Shadow. A schizophrenic orientation results where all positive traits are conscious while all negative traits are transferred to the Other. It is the result of a paranoid orientation. Moreover, the paranoid exhibits infantile characteristics that vacillate between sadistic domination to submissive or masochistic victimization. This is demonstrated in the Srebrenica case where Bosnian Muslim troops slit the throats of Serbs and decapitate them and mutilate their bodies in the sadistic domination cycle or phase but then shift to the victimization phase when they become victims. The infantile paranoid personality is unbalanced and unstable and thus vacillates between sadistic cruelty to passive victimization. It takes one to know one. The propagandist accuses the enemy of committing crimes which in fact the propagandist himself is guilty of. The propagandist merely projects these crimes on the Enemy. In short, the propagandist looks into a mirror when devising a propaganda construct for the Enemy

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I'll also say that the reason someone might come to the conclusion that their good name will be defamed by an event could actually be because that might be what happens

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Muslim leader warns of 'redneck backlash'

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A KEY Muslim leader has warned radical clerics to tone down their rhetoric and has voiced fears of a redneck backlash against his community.

President of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils Dr Ameer Ali said he planned to meet with government ministers today to seek greater protection for his community.

"I want to get more information about what has happened over the last 48 hours and secondly I also want the Government to assure my community that they will not allow the rednecks in this country to exploit this situation and create disharmony in this society," Dr Ali said.

"My people are afraid that it is on occasions like this the rednecks can create havoc."

Dr Ali said violence against Muslims was on the rise before the raids occurred in Sydney and Melbourne this week.

"I come from WA and even before the raid there was one incident, I'm sure about it, where a bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house and attacked a lady in the house and later admitted to police that they did that because they are Muslims," Dr Ali said.

"So this racially motivated violence should be stopped. "The law enforcers (should) give some extra protection to the places of worship, the Muslim schools and areas where the Muslims are living in concentration so there will be more police patrols taking place so these elements can be kept out." Dr Ali said he also had a message for radical clerics.

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