Monday, October 13, 2014

Afraid Of A Plastic Sword ???

Apparently the "terror plot" which was "disrupted" by the Australian government involved a plastic sword:

The Fairfax press revealed last week that the inscribed Arabic sword seized during unprecedented police raids on September 18—and portrayed by the media as the weapon that would be used in an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)-inspired plot to kidnap a random person and behead them in the street—was actually a plastic ornament. Moreover, it is a plastic Shiite ornament. Its inscription pays homage to the first Imam, Ali, who is considered by the Sunni Wahhabist extremists who make up ISIS as an apostate to Islam.

The revelation adds to the numerous, disturbing questions about the raids on 15 homes in five Sydney suburbs, which was the largest anti-terrorism operation ever carried out in Australia and involved some 800 state police, federal police and Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) agents.

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/13/raid-o13.html

800 cops mobilized for one plastic sword. WTF ???

This reminds me of vaguely similar "toy gun" incidents in the US, but on a much larger scale:

http://www.mintpressnews.com/toy-guns-trigger-happy-cops-equal-tragedy-for-children/174315/

Was there an actual terror plot, or is this yet another example of Islamophobia gone wild? I don't think it's possible for us to know.

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