Daniel Emerson
July 18, 2008
AFTER three stabbings, a shooting, a car bombing and a local man charged with assisting a fleeing gunman all in the space of a week, residents of Lane Cove North could be forgiven for thinking they live in the new badlands of Sydney.
Even local police agree that the affluent North Shore precinct had been "copping it" of late.
"I don't know what's happening with the drinking water here, mate, but it's a bit of a worry, isn't it?" North Shore police inspector Jeff Bell said.
"We've been copping it a bit lately. Terrible, isn't it? Probably the next Neighbourhood Watch meeting down there will be an interesting one."
The suburb, in which houses sell for an average of $845,000 and the population is 34 per cent Catholic, first hit the headlines recently when three teenagers were stabbed during a brawl at a party on Mowbray Road West on Friday night.
On Tuesday, a home-made pipe bomb exploded under a Jeep Cherokee on Walkers Drive in Lane Cove North Estate.
Another one was defused by the bomb squad.
Police are still investigating whether holes in the front of the Jeep were from shrapnel flying from the bomb, or bullets fired by an automatic weapon that left more than eight cartridges strewn in the street.
The lead investigator, Inspector Peter Yeomans, said the target of the attack was being "unco-operative" but would not comment on reports he was a former Nomad bikie now moonlighting as a strong-arm driver for a Kings Cross identity.
Yesterday police charged a 23-year-old Lane Cove North man with being an accessory after the fact to a shooting with intent to murder in Manly, concealing a serious offence and possessing drugs.
The shooting, on July 5, resulted in a security alert at the Royal North Shore Hospital where the victim was recovering, and the dramatic arrest of the alleged gunman in Martin Place.
Inspector Bell said the incidents were coincidence rather than evidence of a spike in crime in Lane Cove North. "To my knowledge the stabbing bit was certainly unrelated to the pipe-bomb thing, and the young bloke with the shooting over at Manly is just a coincidence as well, unrelated to the other two," he said.
"That's three now, isn't it? They say these things come in threes so hopefully that will be the end of it in Lane Cove for the rest of the year."
Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research figures show the number of reported assaults in Lane Cove had fallen slightly between 2003 and last year but that does not placate residents. One said the target of the car bombing was one of a number of "very beefy, bald-headed" identities who intimidated other residents at the Lane Cove North Estate townhouse complex.
"Lovely, leafy, quiet Lane Cove, hey?" she said.
Source
Friday, July 18, 2008
Victim's son named in bomb attack
Les Kennedy
July 18, 2008
A HOME-MADE bomb that killed a noted Sydney scientist as he mowed his lawn was made of the same materials as terrorist bombs that devastated the London underground in 2005, a court has heard.
Central Local Court was told yesterday that Jonathan Lowe, the son of the victim, Dr Lionel Barry Lowe, had ordered a friend to help make a bomb that was triggered remotely by a mobile phone.
Jonathan Lowe was named by police in a statement presented to the magistrate, Allan Moore, when the 26-year-old fitter machinist Ashley Glenn Wright, of Arcadia, appeared, charged with the manslaughter of Dr Lowe.
Police said the 67-year-old retired agricultural scientist died after being hit by shrapnel from a pipe bomb placed in a skip in the backyard of his home in Mitchell Road, Dural, on May 19.
Dr Lowe, a father of five had been cutting the lawn on a ride-on mower.
Police alleged bomb-making components including the "highly volatile" home-made explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and mobile phones were found in a granny flat on the property, occupied by Jonathan Lowe, who denied knowledge of them and has not been charged.
The court heard that police were attempting to verify the movements of Lowe on the day of his father's death.
Police said Lowe was detained on May 20 "on suspicion of possessing explosives" but has been released. Police are waiting for results of tests for explosive residue from his hands and clothing.
Police allege Wright admitted to constructing the bomb and manufacturing the TATP, while also making a circuit board for Lowe, who told him it was to be used for a mobile-phone-activated home alarm system.
"The accused stated that Jonathan Lowe persistently badgered him to construct the explosive device," the statement read. "[Jonathan] Lowe had told the accused that he was going to set the device off in the bush. The accused informed police that Lowe had informed him that he had placed the explosive device outside but the accused did not exactly know where."
Wright, who also admitted to having made TATP two years ago, is also charged with maliciously exploding an explosive device causing grievous bodily harm to Dr Lowe, and negligently handling explosives.
Wright, who appeared before the court on a video link, sought bail, which was opposed by Matthew Laffan, a solicitor for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Mr Laffan said police were still trying to determine a motive for why the bomb was constructed, but that it was similar to bombs in a terrorist manual that had been used in bombings abroad. However, he conceded that there was no link to any terrorist organisation.
Mr Moore granted Wright bail of $10,000 and ordered that he reappear before the court on September 4.
Wright was released from the Silverwater Remand Prison last night, and left in the boot of his parents' car.
Source
July 18, 2008
A HOME-MADE bomb that killed a noted Sydney scientist as he mowed his lawn was made of the same materials as terrorist bombs that devastated the London underground in 2005, a court has heard.
Central Local Court was told yesterday that Jonathan Lowe, the son of the victim, Dr Lionel Barry Lowe, had ordered a friend to help make a bomb that was triggered remotely by a mobile phone.
Jonathan Lowe was named by police in a statement presented to the magistrate, Allan Moore, when the 26-year-old fitter machinist Ashley Glenn Wright, of Arcadia, appeared, charged with the manslaughter of Dr Lowe.
Police said the 67-year-old retired agricultural scientist died after being hit by shrapnel from a pipe bomb placed in a skip in the backyard of his home in Mitchell Road, Dural, on May 19.
Dr Lowe, a father of five had been cutting the lawn on a ride-on mower.
Police alleged bomb-making components including the "highly volatile" home-made explosive triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and mobile phones were found in a granny flat on the property, occupied by Jonathan Lowe, who denied knowledge of them and has not been charged.
The court heard that police were attempting to verify the movements of Lowe on the day of his father's death.
Police said Lowe was detained on May 20 "on suspicion of possessing explosives" but has been released. Police are waiting for results of tests for explosive residue from his hands and clothing.
Police allege Wright admitted to constructing the bomb and manufacturing the TATP, while also making a circuit board for Lowe, who told him it was to be used for a mobile-phone-activated home alarm system.
"The accused stated that Jonathan Lowe persistently badgered him to construct the explosive device," the statement read. "[Jonathan] Lowe had told the accused that he was going to set the device off in the bush. The accused informed police that Lowe had informed him that he had placed the explosive device outside but the accused did not exactly know where."
Wright, who also admitted to having made TATP two years ago, is also charged with maliciously exploding an explosive device causing grievous bodily harm to Dr Lowe, and negligently handling explosives.
Wright, who appeared before the court on a video link, sought bail, which was opposed by Matthew Laffan, a solicitor for the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Mr Laffan said police were still trying to determine a motive for why the bomb was constructed, but that it was similar to bombs in a terrorist manual that had been used in bombings abroad. However, he conceded that there was no link to any terrorist organisation.
Mr Moore granted Wright bail of $10,000 and ordered that he reappear before the court on September 4.
Wright was released from the Silverwater Remand Prison last night, and left in the boot of his parents' car.
Source
France closes ranks against burka
Emma-Kate Symons, Paris July 18, 2008
FRANCE has taken a united stand against the burka and the veil with a leading Muslim minister in Nicolas Sarkozy's Government condemning head-to-toe Islamic dress as "a prison and a straitjacket".
Following a landmark appeal court ruling denying French citizenship to a Moroccan woman who wore a burka at the behest of her French husband, Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara said all Islamic coverings for women, including the popular head and shoulder veil or hijab were "symbols of oppression".
"The burka is a prison; it's a straitjacket," she told Le Parisien.
"It is not a religious insignia but the insignia of a totalitarian political project that advocates inequality between the sexes and which is totally devoid of democracy."
The words burka and niqab are used interchangeably in France, although burka normally refers to the head-to-toe covering including a screen over the eyes that is popular in parts of Afghanistan. The niqab generally leaves a small slit for the eyes.
Ms Amara did not stop with her denunciation of the most extreme forms of Islamic dress for women and their incompatibility with French values such as secularism, democracy and sexual equality.
"The veil and the burka are the same thing. The only difference is a few centimetres of fabric," she said. "We have to fight against this obscurantist practice which endangers equality between men and women."
In 2005, France banned the veil in all schools, a decision that was met with only small pockets of brief resistance. It is now broadly accepted, including by most of France's estimated five million Muslims, Europe's largest Muslim minority.
A campaigner for women's rights and equality for Muslim women in France's fractious immigrant-dominated housing estates, Ms Amara said she hoped the court ruling would "dissuade certain fanatics from imposing the burka on their wives".
In a rare show of unity, prominent figures across the political spectrum applauded the court decision refusing citizenship to 32-year-old Faiza Mabchour, on the grounds she had failed to integrate. After moving to France in 2000, following her marriage to a French citizen of North African origin, the Moroccan mother of three converted to hardline Salafism, the fundamentalist strand of Islam originating in Saudi Arabia. According to her husband's wishes, she began wearing a burka with only a slit opening at the eyes.
Despite speaking good French, Ms Mabchour demonstrated an ignorance of basic French values and rights during interviews with state officials.
In her ruling, state commissioner Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave said Ms Mabchour came for interviews "clothed from head to toe in the clothing of women from the Arabian Peninsula, with a veil covering her hair, forehead and chin and a piece of cloth over her face. Her eyes could only be seen through a small slit".
"She lives virtually as a recluse, disconnected from French society. She has no concept of laicite (the secular state or secularism) nor the right to vote. She lives in total subservience to the men in her family."
The appeal ruling was welcomed after controversy surrounding the annulment of a marriage in the northern city of Lille, on the grounds that the Muslim bride had lied about her virginity.
The head of France's Muslim Council, Mohammed Mousaoui, was cautious in his reaction to the burka decision.
"It should not serve as a pretext to stigmatise the majority of Muslims or to the point the finger at the practise of Islam," he said. "In the majority of Muslim schools ... the wearing of the burka is neither an obligation nor a recommendation".
Source
FRANCE has taken a united stand against the burka and the veil with a leading Muslim minister in Nicolas Sarkozy's Government condemning head-to-toe Islamic dress as "a prison and a straitjacket".
Following a landmark appeal court ruling denying French citizenship to a Moroccan woman who wore a burka at the behest of her French husband, Urban Affairs Minister Fadela Amara said all Islamic coverings for women, including the popular head and shoulder veil or hijab were "symbols of oppression".
"The burka is a prison; it's a straitjacket," she told Le Parisien.
"It is not a religious insignia but the insignia of a totalitarian political project that advocates inequality between the sexes and which is totally devoid of democracy."
The words burka and niqab are used interchangeably in France, although burka normally refers to the head-to-toe covering including a screen over the eyes that is popular in parts of Afghanistan. The niqab generally leaves a small slit for the eyes.
Ms Amara did not stop with her denunciation of the most extreme forms of Islamic dress for women and their incompatibility with French values such as secularism, democracy and sexual equality.
"The veil and the burka are the same thing. The only difference is a few centimetres of fabric," she said. "We have to fight against this obscurantist practice which endangers equality between men and women."
In 2005, France banned the veil in all schools, a decision that was met with only small pockets of brief resistance. It is now broadly accepted, including by most of France's estimated five million Muslims, Europe's largest Muslim minority.
A campaigner for women's rights and equality for Muslim women in France's fractious immigrant-dominated housing estates, Ms Amara said she hoped the court ruling would "dissuade certain fanatics from imposing the burka on their wives".
In a rare show of unity, prominent figures across the political spectrum applauded the court decision refusing citizenship to 32-year-old Faiza Mabchour, on the grounds she had failed to integrate. After moving to France in 2000, following her marriage to a French citizen of North African origin, the Moroccan mother of three converted to hardline Salafism, the fundamentalist strand of Islam originating in Saudi Arabia. According to her husband's wishes, she began wearing a burka with only a slit opening at the eyes.
Despite speaking good French, Ms Mabchour demonstrated an ignorance of basic French values and rights during interviews with state officials.
In her ruling, state commissioner Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave said Ms Mabchour came for interviews "clothed from head to toe in the clothing of women from the Arabian Peninsula, with a veil covering her hair, forehead and chin and a piece of cloth over her face. Her eyes could only be seen through a small slit".
"She lives virtually as a recluse, disconnected from French society. She has no concept of laicite (the secular state or secularism) nor the right to vote. She lives in total subservience to the men in her family."
The appeal ruling was welcomed after controversy surrounding the annulment of a marriage in the northern city of Lille, on the grounds that the Muslim bride had lied about her virginity.
The head of France's Muslim Council, Mohammed Mousaoui, was cautious in his reaction to the burka decision.
"It should not serve as a pretext to stigmatise the majority of Muslims or to the point the finger at the practise of Islam," he said. "In the majority of Muslim schools ... the wearing of the burka is neither an obligation nor a recommendation".
Source
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Man arrested after crashing car onto Brisbane runway
Thursday 17th July 2008
Australian Federal Police officers are questioning a 39-year-old man after a potentially serious incident at Brisbane airport overnight.
It is alleged the man crashed his car through security gate 11 before driving onto the airfield around 10:00pm AEST.
Airport security and the AFP responded quickly and the man was arrested soon after.
He was taken into custody where police were questioning him over the incident. No charges had been laid early this morning.
An AFP spokeswoman said there were no delays or interruptions to airport activity.
Source
Australian Federal Police officers are questioning a 39-year-old man after a potentially serious incident at Brisbane airport overnight.
It is alleged the man crashed his car through security gate 11 before driving onto the airfield around 10:00pm AEST.
Airport security and the AFP responded quickly and the man was arrested soon after.
He was taken into custody where police were questioning him over the incident. No charges had been laid early this morning.
An AFP spokeswoman said there were no delays or interruptions to airport activity.
Source
Man tried to hijack, crash Qantas plane
May 29 2003
A man armed with two sharpened wooden stakes tried to hijack and crash a Qantas domestic jet with 47 passengers aboard shortly after take-off from Melbourne today, authorities said.
The 40-year-old man stabbed two flight attendants and injured two other people before he was overpowered by crew and passengers aboard QF1737. He was in custody tonight.
Australian airport security will be reviewed after today's incident but authorities said the nation's worst aircraft hijacking attempt was not an act of terrorism.
Shocked passengers later hailed a 38-year-old male flight attendant as a hero for helping to subdue the attacker, while being stabbed in the head.
"The steward had a lot of blood on the back of his neck; he was good, very good, very brave," said passenger Joe Da Costa.
Several passengers helped restrain the would-be hijacker with plastic ties, bundling him between two seats before the flight returned to Melbourne and made an emergency landing, federal police said.
The drama erupted 10 minutes after the Boeing 717, with six crew, took off for Launceston shortly before 3pm (AEST).
Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon said the man - believed to be an Australian national - rose from his seventh row seat and proceeded towards the cockpit armed with two 15-centimetre wooden stakes.
He said the male attendant and 25-year-old female attendant suffered gashes to the head and face during the struggle to subdue the attacker.
Ambulance officers said the two were taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition with facial lacerations.
Two passengers were also treated by paramedics at the scene for minor injuries.
Federal Transport Minister John Anderson said the would-be hijacker had intended to crash the aircraft.
"Very shortly after take-off ... the man started to become very threatening," he told reporters.
"(He) apparently headed for the cabin, and seemed to be intent upon trying to force a nasty outcome.
"If you call an attempt to crash an aircraft, you might call that a hijacking.
"I can only say that, on the information available to me at this point in time, it does not, although it looks like it was premeditated, it doesn't appear to have been an act of terrorism," Mr Anderson said.
Federal agent Stephen Cato confirmed the incident was a hijack attempt.
"We believe he was trying to take over the plane," Agent Cato said.
He said no motive had yet been established.
Mr Dixon said the cockpit door was locked but the plane did not have an enhanced security door, which are now being installed on all Qantas jet aircraft.
Passengers on the plane were tonight offered counselling, onward flights and accommodation.
Agent Cato said passengers who intervened and overwhelmed the man before he could get to the cockpit were "quite heroic".
Passenger Keith Charlton was among those who helped overpower the attacker.
He said he was seated in the third aisle of plane when a man in a "brown suit raced past me with his hands raised in the air".
He said the man, who was holding aloft two sharpened wooden stakes, stabbed the chief flight attendant "Greg".
"The fellow Greg, really was a hero ... if it wasn't for him we could've been in a lot of trouble," he told Sky News.
"As he was being attacked, he put his head down into the man's chest and he pushed him back down the plane.
"He had two severe injuries to his head; one was on the chin, one was on the top of his head," Mr Charlton said.
Six men then rushed to Greg's aid.
"Calm remained throughout the aircraft. There were one or two people who were quite angry about it but the aircraft was quite calm."
Mr Da Costa, of Melbourne, said the male flight attendant was covered in blood after being stabbed.
"The steward tried to confront him and that's why he got stabbed," he said.
Australian Federal Police, transport authorities and Qantas were tonight conducting separate investigations into the incident.
Mr Anderson said the man went through metal detectors at Melbourne airport which failed to pick up the sticks.
He said Australian airport security would have to be reviewed in light of the incident.
"We are at world's best practice. It may well very be that there are lessons to learn out of this for Australian aviation and international aviation," he said.
"If there's anything good to be drawn out of this very unfortunate episode it is that the safety of the aircraft and the people on it were secured."
AAP
Source
A man armed with two sharpened wooden stakes tried to hijack and crash a Qantas domestic jet with 47 passengers aboard shortly after take-off from Melbourne today, authorities said.
The 40-year-old man stabbed two flight attendants and injured two other people before he was overpowered by crew and passengers aboard QF1737. He was in custody tonight.
Australian airport security will be reviewed after today's incident but authorities said the nation's worst aircraft hijacking attempt was not an act of terrorism.
Shocked passengers later hailed a 38-year-old male flight attendant as a hero for helping to subdue the attacker, while being stabbed in the head.
"The steward had a lot of blood on the back of his neck; he was good, very good, very brave," said passenger Joe Da Costa.
Several passengers helped restrain the would-be hijacker with plastic ties, bundling him between two seats before the flight returned to Melbourne and made an emergency landing, federal police said.
The drama erupted 10 minutes after the Boeing 717, with six crew, took off for Launceston shortly before 3pm (AEST).
Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon said the man - believed to be an Australian national - rose from his seventh row seat and proceeded towards the cockpit armed with two 15-centimetre wooden stakes.
He said the male attendant and 25-year-old female attendant suffered gashes to the head and face during the struggle to subdue the attacker.
Ambulance officers said the two were taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition with facial lacerations.
Two passengers were also treated by paramedics at the scene for minor injuries.
Federal Transport Minister John Anderson said the would-be hijacker had intended to crash the aircraft.
"Very shortly after take-off ... the man started to become very threatening," he told reporters.
"(He) apparently headed for the cabin, and seemed to be intent upon trying to force a nasty outcome.
"If you call an attempt to crash an aircraft, you might call that a hijacking.
"I can only say that, on the information available to me at this point in time, it does not, although it looks like it was premeditated, it doesn't appear to have been an act of terrorism," Mr Anderson said.
Federal agent Stephen Cato confirmed the incident was a hijack attempt.
"We believe he was trying to take over the plane," Agent Cato said.
He said no motive had yet been established.
Mr Dixon said the cockpit door was locked but the plane did not have an enhanced security door, which are now being installed on all Qantas jet aircraft.
Passengers on the plane were tonight offered counselling, onward flights and accommodation.
Agent Cato said passengers who intervened and overwhelmed the man before he could get to the cockpit were "quite heroic".
Passenger Keith Charlton was among those who helped overpower the attacker.
He said he was seated in the third aisle of plane when a man in a "brown suit raced past me with his hands raised in the air".
He said the man, who was holding aloft two sharpened wooden stakes, stabbed the chief flight attendant "Greg".
"The fellow Greg, really was a hero ... if it wasn't for him we could've been in a lot of trouble," he told Sky News.
"As he was being attacked, he put his head down into the man's chest and he pushed him back down the plane.
"He had two severe injuries to his head; one was on the chin, one was on the top of his head," Mr Charlton said.
Six men then rushed to Greg's aid.
"Calm remained throughout the aircraft. There were one or two people who were quite angry about it but the aircraft was quite calm."
Mr Da Costa, of Melbourne, said the male flight attendant was covered in blood after being stabbed.
"The steward tried to confront him and that's why he got stabbed," he said.
Australian Federal Police, transport authorities and Qantas were tonight conducting separate investigations into the incident.
Mr Anderson said the man went through metal detectors at Melbourne airport which failed to pick up the sticks.
He said Australian airport security would have to be reviewed in light of the incident.
"We are at world's best practice. It may well very be that there are lessons to learn out of this for Australian aviation and international aviation," he said.
"If there's anything good to be drawn out of this very unfortunate episode it is that the safety of the aircraft and the people on it were secured."
AAP
Source
Pipe bomb found after Sydney explosion
16:33 AEST Tue Jul 15 2008
A car bomb explosion and a series of gunshots fired in a northern Sydney housing estate early on Tuesday were intended to harm people, police say.
Emergency crews were called to Walkers Drive in Lane Cove North about 3.50am (AEST) on Tuesday after a resident reported what sounded like gunshots.
Police discovered a home-made pipe bomb had exploded under a parked car and also found a number of bullet casings.
"At this stage there's in excess of eight (casings)," Detective Inspector Peter Yeomans told reporters.
A second, similar explosive device, undetonated, was found beneath a black Jeep Cherokee and safely removed by police bomb squad technicians.
Forensic officers were examining the vehicle, which appeared to have sustained minor damage and had holes in its exterior.
"It would appear that it is a home-made device, what is known as a pipe bomb, constructed of metal and with some sort of explosive device inserted in it, and obviously, when it ignites, then shrapnel is a consequence of it," Det Insp Yeomans said.
The attack did not appear to be random or a scare tactic, he said.
"A device in relation to a home-made pipe bomb and a number of shots which we believe were fired from possibly an automatic weapon - I'd say that was to harm people," Det Insp Yeomans said.
No one was injured in the attack and the motivation remained unclear, he said.
"It's only early in the investigation. We can't say at this time what the reasons are for this," Det Insp Yeomans said.
"We're interviewing a number of persons from the residences, and we're trying to contact a number of people who had vacated their premises prior to police arriving."
This was the first time police had been called to the estate, he said.
Local residents said the estate had been crime-free until today.
Anne Cox, who has lived in the Lane Cove North Estate for four years, said she had never experienced criminal activity there before.
"It's a great estate, no trouble in here at all ... nothing like that's happened before. It's a bit suspicious," she said.
A fellow resident of five years, Christine Stow, praised the police response, but said the incident was concerning.
"This is a quiet, peaceful area ... it's very safe, so it seems quite unusual that someone would be planting homemade bombs," she said.
"Hopefully, this is a one-off, and I don't know what's pre-empted it, but I certainly hope it goes away."
Source
A car bomb explosion and a series of gunshots fired in a northern Sydney housing estate early on Tuesday were intended to harm people, police say.
Emergency crews were called to Walkers Drive in Lane Cove North about 3.50am (AEST) on Tuesday after a resident reported what sounded like gunshots.
Police discovered a home-made pipe bomb had exploded under a parked car and also found a number of bullet casings.
"At this stage there's in excess of eight (casings)," Detective Inspector Peter Yeomans told reporters.
A second, similar explosive device, undetonated, was found beneath a black Jeep Cherokee and safely removed by police bomb squad technicians.
Forensic officers were examining the vehicle, which appeared to have sustained minor damage and had holes in its exterior.
"It would appear that it is a home-made device, what is known as a pipe bomb, constructed of metal and with some sort of explosive device inserted in it, and obviously, when it ignites, then shrapnel is a consequence of it," Det Insp Yeomans said.
The attack did not appear to be random or a scare tactic, he said.
"A device in relation to a home-made pipe bomb and a number of shots which we believe were fired from possibly an automatic weapon - I'd say that was to harm people," Det Insp Yeomans said.
No one was injured in the attack and the motivation remained unclear, he said.
"It's only early in the investigation. We can't say at this time what the reasons are for this," Det Insp Yeomans said.
"We're interviewing a number of persons from the residences, and we're trying to contact a number of people who had vacated their premises prior to police arriving."
This was the first time police had been called to the estate, he said.
Local residents said the estate had been crime-free until today.
Anne Cox, who has lived in the Lane Cove North Estate for four years, said she had never experienced criminal activity there before.
"It's a great estate, no trouble in here at all ... nothing like that's happened before. It's a bit suspicious," she said.
A fellow resident of five years, Christine Stow, praised the police response, but said the incident was concerning.
"This is a quiet, peaceful area ... it's very safe, so it seems quite unusual that someone would be planting homemade bombs," she said.
"Hopefully, this is a one-off, and I don't know what's pre-empted it, but I certainly hope it goes away."
Source
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Daily News - Wed 16/07/08
Local News
Troops needed in our region
Smith meets with Fiji coup leaders
Sins of omission
Global News
n/a
Dawah News
n/a
Troops needed in our region
Smith meets with Fiji coup leaders
Sins of omission
Global News
n/a
Dawah News
n/a
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Daily News - Mon 14/07/08
Local News
n/a
Global news
US weighs sending Iraq troops to Afghanistan
Promises have put Assad back in French good books
Dawah News
n/a
n/a
Global news
US weighs sending Iraq troops to Afghanistan
Promises have put Assad back in French good books
Dawah News
n/a
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Daily News - Sat 12/07/08
Local News
n/a
Global News
Australia's Rudd praises Malaysian democracy as ties warm after decades of coldness
UK pays for beating Iraqi to death
Dawah News
n/a
n/a
Global News
Australia's Rudd praises Malaysian democracy as ties warm after decades of coldness
UK pays for beating Iraqi to death
Dawah News
n/a
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Daily News - Tue 08/07/08
Local News
Western society's war within
Global News
n/a
Dawah News
Indonesia clerics 'growing force'
What can NU offer to mitigate prejudice against Islam in the West?
Indonesia: Implications of the Ahmadiyah Decree
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's tough stance on sect illustrates influence of Muslim hardliners
Radical Islam stirs in China's remote west
Western society's war within
Global News
n/a
Dawah News
Indonesia clerics 'growing force'
What can NU offer to mitigate prejudice against Islam in the West?
Indonesia: Implications of the Ahmadiyah Decree
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's tough stance on sect illustrates influence of Muslim hardliners
Radical Islam stirs in China's remote west
Monday, July 7, 2008
Daily News - Mon 07/07/08
Local News
Afghan teen claims Army caused injuries
Global News
British MP: UK Muslims feel like 'the Jews of Europe'
Dawah News
Pakistani Islamists converge on capital for Red Mosque demo
Hizbul Tahreer protests against Operation Silence
Demonstrators resent Khyber Agency operation
Ulema urge govt to halt operation, turn to talks
Afghan teen claims Army caused injuries
Global News
British MP: UK Muslims feel like 'the Jews of Europe'
Dawah News
Pakistani Islamists converge on capital for Red Mosque demo
Hizbul Tahreer protests against Operation Silence
Demonstrators resent Khyber Agency operation
Ulema urge govt to halt operation, turn to talks
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Daily News - Tue 01/07/08
Local News
It's a free country, envoys warned
Muslim convert who vanished from Gaza
Get the lowdown on Islam, Northern Territory style
Thou shalt not annoy on Youth Day
Hicks steps out with Stott Despoja
Global News
Talk heats up on Iran after claim of raids
Turkey ready to ban ruling Islamists
Dawah News
Bridge-building dialogue: Seeking common ground
RI's Islamic organizations told to 'think globally'
It's a free country, envoys warned
Muslim convert who vanished from Gaza
Get the lowdown on Islam, Northern Territory style
Thou shalt not annoy on Youth Day
Hicks steps out with Stott Despoja
Global News
Talk heats up on Iran after claim of raids
Turkey ready to ban ruling Islamists
Dawah News
Bridge-building dialogue: Seeking common ground
RI's Islamic organizations told to 'think globally'
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