200 suspected jihadists prevented from leaving Australia

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200 suspected jihadists prevented from leaving Australia
By ROD McGUIRK

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Counterterrorism squads have prevented 200 suspected jihadists from departing Australian airports for the Middle East including at least three teenage boys this month, officials said on Wednesday.

Officials had previously announced that two Sydney-born brothers, aged 16 and 17, had been intercepted at Sydney International Airport on March 8 attempting to board a flight for Turkey without their parents' knowledge. The siblings were returned to their families and were to be charged.

Within a week, a 17-year-old boy was intercepted at the same airport on suspicion that he was headed for a Middle Eastern battle, Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said Wednesday.

The boy had also been returned to his family, but remained under investigation, Dutton said.

Since counterterrorism units were attached to eight Australian airports in August, 85,000 travelers had been questioned and 200 people had been prevented from flying on suspicion that they were headed for the battlefields of Iraq and Syria to fight with groups including Islamic State, Dutton said.

Experts disagree about why Islamic State had been so effective recruiting in Australia, which is widely regarded as a multicultural success story, with an economy in an enviable 24th year of continuous growth.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said his government was investing more on border security and on countering extremism.

"It is absolutely critical that the people of Australia appreciate that the death cult is reaching out to vulnerable and impressionable young people," he said, referring the Islamic State movement." The death cult is reaching out, seeking effectively to brain wash people online."


-- (c) Associated Press 2015-03-25

[neverdie]

Gee wizzz, I hope somebody is watching these imbiciles, irregardless of how young they are .

Goodness me, what might they do now, as they realise they're stuck onshore & must carry out their desires amongst the Australian Population.

These wannabe terrorists should have their foreheads tattooed as a warning for the normal people in society.

[Felipesed]

I would have thought that letting them leave, then a mass round-up and deportation of all ISIS sympathizers, and imams would be the safer option for the Australian people.

All European countries should be doing likewise.

If these would-be terrorists are not killed on the battlefield in Syria etc, and allowed to return, then they will be a permanent danger to the countries in which they live, and will end up killing and being killed in their host countries.

Edited March 25, 2015 by Felipesed

[bartender100]

Let them leave, they wont last long out there now, take their passports off them at the airport and tell them not to bother coming back to the country that has provided for them and their family

[simple1]

Let them leave, they wont last long out there now, take their passports off them at the airport and tell them not to bother coming back to the country that has provided for them and their family

As I've posted in other topics, Oz govt should not permit these people to travel to M.E. If deemed necessary imprison for life, do not permit them to travel overseas where they will commit crimes against humanity.

[samuibeachcomber]

australia needs to introduce re- education camps preferably in the outback.Teach them the wonders of donald bradman,jack brabham,herb elliot, etc etc plus the almighty socceroos.Then teach them some skills including sport,and just for fun get them braking up rocks,digging holes and then filling them in.They have obviously got too much time on their hands and have no direction in life.Perhaps all they have to listen to is whingeing parents wanting to go home?

[Soutpeel]

Gee wizzz, I hope somebody is watching these imbiciles, irregardless of how young they are .

Goodness me, what might they do now, as they realise they're stuck onshore & must carry out their desires amongst the Australian Population.

These wannabe terrorists should have their foreheads tattooed as a warning for the normal people in society.

Easy....hold them in Aussie till they are 18, then put them on a plane, invalidate their passports and send them on their way and don't let them back in the country

[squarethecircle]

"As I've posted in other topics, Oz govt should not permit these people to travel to M.E. If deemed necessary imprison for life, do not permit them to travel overseas where they will commit crimes against humanity."

Well then the human rights watch crowd and their teams of attorneys will be behind them, all the way.

How about secretly embed with GPS trackers (if there's any way to do that) then let them go. Gives the drone operators better intel.

[hansgruber]

australia needs to introduce re- education camps preferably in the outback.Teach them the wonders of donald bradman,jack brabham,herb elliot, etc etc plus the almighty socceroos.Then teach them some skills including sport,and just for fun get them braking up rocks,digging holes and then filling them in.They have obviously got too much time on their hands and have no direction in life.Perhaps all they have to listen to is whingeing parents wanting to go home?

Play them some midnight oil.

[JockPieandBeans]

From the OP

which is widely regarded as a multicultural success story,

There is no Western Country that is a multicultural success story. Until the powers that be admit and accept this. The problems are only going to get steadily worse.

[OOLEEBER]

australia needs to introduce re- education camps preferably in the outback.Teach them the wonders of donald bradman,jack brabham,herb elliot, etc etc plus the almighty socceroos.Then teach them some skills including sport,and just for fun get them braking up rocks,digging holes and then filling them in.They have obviously got too much time on their hands and have no direction in life.Perhaps all they have to listen to is whingeing parents wanting to go home?

Play them some midnight oil.

Blue Sky Mine was okay though.

[EnglishJohn]

Offer a free one-way ticket and they surrender their passports on the way out.

Get rid of them. Their views will not change : they have been ingrained into their brains since birth. Better they find paradise hiding behind a sand dune than in a shopping mall with a bomb under their jacket.

[ezzra]

These are a bunch of sad misguided souls that out of sheer boredom and stupidity after being on

the dole, unemployment benefits, are off to take part in an adventure of a life time so they

can brag to their mates and shilas back home, where are their parents and families?

oh yea, in the pub most likely, turning a blind eye... such are the youth of Australia

now days, lost and hopeless dumbass.....

[neverdie]

Gee wizzz, I hope somebody is watching these imbiciles, irregardless of how young they are .

Goodness me, what might they do now, as they realise they're stuck onshore & must carry out their desires amongst the Australian Population.

These wannabe terrorists should have their foreheads tattooed as a warning for the normal people in society.

Easy....hold them in Aussie till they are 18, then put them on a plane, invalidate their passports and send them on their way and don't let them back in the country

A prime example of what happens with childen that haven't been disiplined and shown the right way in life, parents too busy with their careers or drinking beer and voting off. Too much pc crap, can't smack them, can't raise your voice, can't whatever.

Maybe it's time to open uncle neverdies boot camp and whip these little pluckers into step. Children need to be guid d through life, not left to their own devices and terrorist websites.

The parents of these children should face prosecution , a public flogging at least.

This sort of crapp NEVER Ahappened on my watch.

Idiot Doo gooder are who I blame

[mysticpaki]

These fanatical shameless basterds who have no admiration for western freedom and values should be allowed to go BUT there passport should be taken away so they can rot till life where they want to go.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[torpedo1970]

Not a Australian, but we see this happening all over Europe too....

But i dont understand why they stop them....

Let them go... Invalidate their passport... and tell them never to come back....

Then there is less for the government to feed... because they are usually all on government benefits.

It makes me so angry that my tax money is going to these lazy so and so's

[klauskunkel]

That's just great, now you have 'em inside your country!

Just lobotomize them, they are not using their brains anyway.

[BuaBS]

ISIS : Killing , pillaging and raping like vikings. If wasn't strickly necessairy to be muslim , a lot more would go....it's human nature.
Let them go to syria , but don't let them back in....easier for a remote island like Australia, not so for the borderless EU.

[transam]

That's just great, now you have 'em inside your country!

Just lobotomize them, they are not using their brains anyway.

Perhaps they are using their brains, it is worldwide common knowledge that ISIS is sawing of live folks heads, THEY know that and want part of it. Every western country has these shits amongst them. Give them a first word life but they desire a barbaric life from yesteryear.

[maoro2013]

I say let them go just, don't let them back in.

What does Australia get out of this, keeping suspected terrorists in country!!!

[ToddinChonburi]

He called them a DEATH CULT !!!!! Obama is going to be offended by this hateful comment.

Just a miss understood group of yute's that all.

[bangkokheat]

should have just let them go never to re enter australia, and send their family members with them as well,,,rodents

[ChrisY1]

Not a Australian, but we see this happening all over Europe too....

But i dont understand why they stop them....

Let them go... Invalidate their passport... and tell them never to come back....

Then there is less for the government to feed... because they are usually all on government benefits.

It makes me so angry that my tax money is going to these lazy so and so's

Well....many of the people are 2nd and 3rd generation Australians..........pretty difficult to not let them return....

But if they don't get killed and return, they probably end up in prison at ~$50K/year to keep.......it's a bad situation whichever way ot goes.

[Lissos]

Our Governments appear to be approaching this like a nanny, in the sense of - "You don't know what you're doing" and restraining them.

Perhaps they feel this will make them look compassionate in the eyes of the rest of the world, but apart from a minority who may be thick and really did 'not' know what they were getting themselves into by attempting, the rest who approached this with full clarity and fervour and now get 'Shaheed Blocked' by the state are not going to be happy in the slightest about being blocked. At one time I held the view that keeping your enemies as close to your sphere of observation as possible was the safest way to protect a nation rather than booting them out to far flung lands, but the sheer numbers of people involved here means that cannot happen effectively and there is every chance that one of these people now - "already known to us" is on a file but not being watched when out of sheer frustration at being 'Shaheed Blocked' they find some way to go on a furious rampage in a shopping mall with some form of weapon. Overall, everyone else seems to be - "Go, just let them go" except our Governments. It seems more concerned with some kind of image problem, where people choosing to 'leave' western culture in search of something like Islamic State can't be accepted. Perhaps our nations are so desperate to keep the ideal image of harmonious balanced cultural diversity going that they'll even stop people from 'leaving' the petri dish.

[Litlos]

Note their details, cancel their passport a month later, have to make sure they get where they are going. And slip at tracking device in their luggage or whatever. That way they get to meet allah and they are really useful to the western countries.

As a side note ASIO says the number of Australians serving with ISIS is about a constant 200, about 30 a month joining up and about the same number getting killed every month. Sounds like a balanced workable solution to me unless they can up the kill rate.

Cheers

[weegee]

australia needs to introduce re- education camps preferably in the outback.Teach them the wonders of donald bradman,jack brabham,herb elliot, etc etc plus the almighty socceroos.Then teach them some skills including sport,and just for fun get them braking up rocks,digging holes and then filling them in.They have obviously got too much time on their hands and have no direction in life.Perhaps all they have to listen to is whingeing parents wanting to go home?

Play them some midnight oil.

OH NO...please dont !!!!

The less we hear of that balled headed nit wit, the better

[hard124get]

i hope the same applies to the young fools who want to join the IDF

[muffy]

Western countries have a big problem , too easy on them . Revoke passports as they are in the air , no return allowed .

[Steely Dan]

So according to the OP its a mystery how ISIS have been so successful recruiting in Australis, s multicultural success story with an enviable record of 24 consecutive years of growth.

Has it occurred to the progressive intelligentsia (If ever there was an oxymoron) that this disproves their stock 'poverty causes terrorism' excuse?

[pacceka]

Have they actually committed a crime? For example, going to work as a nurse, is a crime? Is it? You may not agree the politics or the religion, but no one here has all the information to make an informed assessment of exactly what's happening out there. So, what of the nurse's basic human right?