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On 17 April 2021, his parents went to a police station and asked for help

First mistake.

his father told police “he was prepared to sacrifice my son for the safety of the Australian community”.

Kinda shitty parents, damn.

An online covert operative was tasked with communicating to Thomas using two personae: a 24-year-old Muslim man from NSW, and a more extreme person located overseas.

The purpose of the operation was to find Thomas online and “engage him in chat to ascertain his intent if any”, the operative told the court. The strategy was to gather intelligence and information that could be used to charge Thomas with terrorism offences.

On the first occasion Thomas spoke with the operative online, he asked the officer: “are you a spy” and “do you work with the Asio”, to which the operative, in the role of the first persona, responded “I hate these killab [dog]”.

The operative then wrote “should I ask the same of you akhi” to which Thomas replied “I am 13 years old”.

The operative chatted with Thomas on 55 of the next 71 days, including during breaks at school and late at night.

The operative told an operational psychologist, who was expected to provide advice to him about how to communicate effectively online with Thomas, that “this … is a kid on the spectrum, I’m letting him do all the talking [and] just building rapport”.

There were 1,400 pages of online chats between the pair, Fleming found.

The first persona introduced Thomas to the second, more extreme, persona, who encouraged him to make a bomb or kill an AFP member. But the operative gave evidence that Thomas was naive, and living a “fantasy life online”, including by asking questions like whether he could join the kids’ section of Islamic State.

The Biden administration has signaled there could be additional actions in the coming days; Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday the US response would be “multi-tiered.”

There are very few details.

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MSNBC natsec talking head "This may be a multi-week operation." The creepy fucker also said - "The good news is that we're not going into Iran. Yet."

Also according to CII Radio, their description was more overt - Due to the lawsuit levied by South Africa against Shitrael, there is now a genuine terror threat present with the SAFM Naledi Pandor cited as a primary target. Hot takes include "South Africa was paid by Iran, the SAFM is an ISIS sympathizer" and the crowd favourite "everyone in South Africa is Hamas". My predictions of some coked-out Nazi on The Jerusalem Post chanting "Gaza today, Gauteng tomorrow" as a war cry, are becoming truer by the day.

May every settler and diaper trooper find out exactly why "Johannesburg" rhymes with "Jahannam",

Death to America

ngl russia is not making it easy to give critical support lol

Forensic analysis of video and audio from the pro-Palestine Opera House protest in October have found no evidence a grossly offensive antisemitic phrase was used, police say.

A video of the protest purported to show a small group of protesters chanting “gas the Jews” while outside Sydney’s most iconic building.

After videos were sent to an expert in biometric science for analysis it was found the phrase actually chanted was “where’s the Jews”, Deputy Commissioner Mal Lanyon said.

“As a result of that examination, the expert has concluded with overwhelming certainty that the phrase chanted during that protest as recorded on the audio and visual files was “where’s the Jews?” Not another phrase as otherwise widely reported,” Lanyon said.

Lanyon said there was evidence that other offensive phrases were said during the protest, including the phrase “f--k the Jews”. However, there was no evidence “gas the Jews”, which was reported by many media outlets, was chanted.

The expert is independent of the police and was given the opportunity to review “a large number of files”.

“Police also obtained statements from several individuals who attended the protest indicating they heard the phrase, however these statements have not attributed the phrase to any specific individual,” an earlier police statement said.

“Detectives from Strike Force Mealing continue to investigate the incident and have urged anyone with information, who may not have yet spoken with police, to contact Crime Stoppers,” the statement said.

NSW barrister and former police officer Mahmud Hawila, who has acted for a number of pro-Palestinian protest organisers, including Palestine Action Group Sydney, said in November that he welcomed the review.

“I had serious doubts after watching a video circulating in the media as well as having reviewed a lot of other footage and spoken to witnesses who were at the Opera House,” Hawila said.

The Opera House protest came just days after the October 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas militants, killing at least 1200 people.

propaganda in the mud

Reminder it was 12 out of 12000 at first

The report, which has been shared with foreign governments, alleges that six employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) infiltrated Israel. Four of them were allegedly involved in kidnapping Israelis, while another worker is said to have provided "logistics support".

The Israeli intelligence documents make several claims that Sky News has not seen proof of and many of the claims, even if true, do not directly implicate UNRWA.

In the end they'll find one intern at unrwa gave flour to hamas member, swear to god

The entire article - it's ~1h old...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has approved plans for multi-day strikes in Iraq and Syria against multiple targets, including Iranian personnel and facilities, CBS News reported on Thursday, citing U.S. officials.

President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he had made up his mind on how to respond to a drone attack in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border this week that killed three U.S. service members and wounded more than 40. The U.S. blamed the drone attack on Iran-backed militants.

Biden's top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said on Monday the U.S. response "could be multi-leveled, come in stages, and be sustained over time."

In its report, CBS did not provide details on what a U.S. approval meant in terms of a timeline for the strikes.

The drone attack was the first deadly strike against U.S. forces since the Israel-Gaza war erupted in October, and marked an escalation in tensions that have engulfed the Middle East.

as the ICJ has found, it is plausible that Israel’s conduct amounts to genocide” and, therefore, the “Court implores Defendants to examine the results of their unflagging support of the military siege against the Palestinians in Gaza.”

The court stated, “It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza.”

Nevertheless, the court reluctantly dismissed the case on jurisdictional grounds

lets go Brandon

A court in Thailand has ruled that the biggest party in parliament violated the constitution when it sought to change a strict law against insulting the country’s monarchy.

The reformist Move Forward Party (MFP) finished first in last year’s election on a progressive platform that included a proposal to amend the lese majeste law that outraged Thailand’s conservative elite.

The Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday the plan showed “an intent to separate the monarchy from the Thai nation, which is significantly dangerous to the security of the state

quite disheartening. Thailand is a beautiful, promising country that is held back by a system of rule that should have been abolished long ago. Hopefully the Thai people put an end to it someday.