14 yr old Boy Detained in Australia over 'Terror Plot'

[Masato]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-32379812


Messages found on devices linked to a 14-year-old boy from Blackburn led to a major anti-terror operation in Australia, UK police have said.

Greater Manchester Police said the boy was held on suspicion of involvement in preparing an act of terror.

Officers said they had uncovered a "credible terrorist threat".

Australian police confirmed it was linked to the arrest of five teenagers in Melbourne over alleged plans to target Anzac Day commemorations.

In a joint statement, Victoria Police and the Australian Federal Police said they "can confirm a link between the arrest of a 14-year-old boy in Blackburn, Lancashire, in the United Kingdom on Saturday with Operation Rising, a Joint Counter Terrorism Team operation."

Australian Police arrested five men on Saturday and two remain in custody. The other three have been released but police have said that one man is expected to be charged on weapons offences.
'No UK threat'

The 14-year-old was first arrested in Blackburn on 2 April.

He was detained again on Saturday after officers from the North West Counter Terrorism Unit (NWCTU) and Lancashire Constabulary searched an address in Blackburn under warrant and examined a number of electronic devices.

They allegedly discovered messages to a man in Australia.

Det Ch Supt Tony Mole, from the NWCTU, said: "We seized some media devices and we found some communications on those devices that were a concern to us.

"We thought it indicated a potential credible terrorist attack in Australia. We immediately contacted the Australian authorities and we've been working with them since in relation to the material that we uncovered."

He reassured the public they had not uncovered an "imminent attack in the UK".

Det Ch Supt Mole said a team of UK officers had now arrived in Australia to help with the joint investigation.

The teenager, who is being held on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, remains in police custody.

It emerged over the weekend that British police are reviewing security operations ahead of the centenary of the Anzac landings following the foiled alleged terror plot in Australia.

Anzac Day commemorates the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps' World War One battle in Gallipoli.

Australians and New Zealanders in the UK traditionally observe the occasion, which takes place on 25 April each year, by holding services in Westminster and Hyde Park in central London.

[SRBrant]

Goddamn it, Australia.

[Luigi]

Do people actually target a war memorial days with attacks? The intended message being...dont honour your dead soldiers? Maybe they are ultra pacifists, though that would be fairly ironic.

[Masato]

I don't think days like Memorial day are really intended to honor the dead

They are intended to honor the wars in which they died.

Remembrance Day to me is a pro-war celebration disguised as an anti-war celebration. I hate it

If governments weren't still so active in pushing military agendas it might mean something different.
How fucking dare Stephen Harper wear a poppy, etc

[Masato]

Australia and Canada it seems are very similar. Very similar politics, government, social structure/paradigm.

I think we are the 2 top working prototypes for a NWO type satiated society.

[Luigi]

I have never gotten that impression about Remembrance day. There is a rememberance day memorial in my city that is a bunch of war veterans in wheelchairs looking old as fuck lol It never seems to be about celebration or even glory. Even look at Vimy Ridge, it is the only original allied WW1 memorial left in continental Europe for a reason, Hitler recognized it mourned the dead instead of celebrating victory and decided not to destroy it. Apart from that the day usually consists of moments of silent respect, sad music, people crying etc. The poppy itself is a reference to the poem "In Flanders Fields," which says right in it to honour the dead: "If ye break faith with us who die, We shall not sleep, though poppies grow, In Flanders fields".

Harper's military agenda is discomforting, but in fairness it could have been so much worse. I am really glad he decided not to commit the Iraq war despite international pressure, and the arctic military bases he built will help us maintain sovereignty over the NW passage and Canadian arctic oil.

[Devil's Advocate]

[IDL]

^^ I think Sweden has made more 'progress' than Australia. They are insane!

Australia has more US military presence though and deeper NSA integration. So maybe they are both in the running.

[Vutulaki-san]

I live in Arsetralia and let me tell you the situation is FUBAR.

They sent 200 police into a street to arrest 11 suspected terrorists who ranged in age from 13 to 21 for them making facebook comments in support of ISIS. 4 of the arrested were teenaged femaleswho werent even questioned.

The only ended u charging one of the guys for having a bullet or something which he got fined for with no conviction recorded.

This happned in the week our Parliment quietly passed a law mirroring the NSA and then the next week off we went to fight IS.

All purely a matter of circumstance we are told.

[Edge Guerrero]

Do people actually target a war memorial days with attacks? The intended message being...dont honour your dead soldiers? Maybe they are ultra pacifists, though that would be fairly ironic.

- Ecoterrorists blow oil-plataforms and ships.
I think it's stupid and go against the intention of ecoterrorism that should be preserving our natural ressourcers.

If someone is planning a atack, a memorial day shouldn't be hard to atack?
Its full of security no?