The
31-year-old brother of Australia's first suicide bomber is among two men
arrested following an Australian Federal Police raid on an Islamic book store
south of Brisbane.
Omar Succarieh of Kuraby and 21-year-old
Agim Kruezi from Boronia Heights were taken into custody after police raided
iQraa Islamic Centre at Underwood on Wednesday morning, along with eight other
addresses.
Both will appear in Brisbane Magistrates
Court on Thursday morning, with police expected to oppose bail for the pair.
Succarieh's brother Ahmed was investigated
over an incident in Syria in September 2013 when a truck laden with explosives
was driven into a military checkpoint.
AFP Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan, the national
manager for counter terrorism, said 180 AFP and Queensland police officers
executed nine search warrants in Logan and southern Brisbane on Wednesday
following a 12-month investigation.
Succarieh was charged with providing funds to Syrian
terrorist organisation Jabhat al-Nusra. He was also charged over plans to enter
Syria to "engage in hostile activity".
Kruezi was charged over
"preparations for incursions into Syria, with the intentions of engaging
in hostile activities".
He was also charged with recruiting people to commit the
same acts.
With Australian Federal Police taking two people into
custody just hours before Wednesday's Parliament session, the threat of
terrorism was very much on Premier Campbell Newman's mind.
Mr Newman told parliament that while there was "no
immediate danger", the government would "remain on alert and
keep Queenslanders informed".
With the world leaders headed to Brisbane for November's
G20 summit, Mr Newman said he was in "constant communication"
with both the state police commissioner and federal authorities.
This comes as ASIO Director General David Irvine has said
he is actively considering raising the terror threat level from medium
to high.
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Today a Federal Police officer stood outside an Islamic bookstore where two Muslims had just been arrested on terrorism charges. He squinted into the camera lens and without blinking assured viewers that the arrests had, “nothing to do with Islam”.
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Well I guess if the police raided a drug lab and arrested two bikies it would have nothing to do with bikies either?
It’s difficult to fight a war against terrorism if authorities are prevented from identifying the terrorist as Islamic when terrorism can invariably be defined as an Islamic perversion.
Oh well, maybe the holocaust had nothing to do with Nazism either.
Pickering