Defence force members!

[PMC]

Four hospitalised after Puckapunyal army base tanks crash

From: AAP

May 22, 2013 2:19PM

THREE men have been flown to hospital with serious injuries after two army tanks collided at a Victorian army base.

Ten people were injured when the vehicles collided about 10.30am (AEST) at the Puckapunyal Army Base in central Victoria.

Three men were airlifted to Melbourne hospitals in serious but stable conditions, Rural Ambulance Victoria spokesman John Mullen said.

A fourth person was taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital by road in a stable condition. A further six people suffered minor injuries and were being assessed at a medical centre on the army base.

Mr Mullen said it was unlikely the six people would be taken to hospital.

The Australian Defence Force and Victoria Police are investigating the collision.

A police spokeswoman said officers would investigate whether there was any criminal negligence stemming from the crash.

If there was no negligence, the investigation would be handled by the Defence Force, she said.

[NP99]

I think they were ASLAVs.....

[PMC]

G'day folks,

I was saddened to watch this shear act of brutality occur in the streets of London this morning on the news to a fellow brother in-arms!

Regards,

RLI

London attack: Terrorists targeting soldiers at home again?

By Nick Hunt, CNN
May 23, 2013 -- Updated 0227 GMT (1027 HKT)

London (CNN) -- Security experts are starting to analyze events leading up to the horrific cleaver attack of a man believed to be a British soldier on the suburban streets of London.
One key line of inquiry they'll be following among the many leads: How does this attack relate to other incidents around the world?

CNN Terrorism Analyst Paul Cruickshank says the precedents are not hard to detect. "It's early in the investigation in terms of looking at the culprit and motivation but there's a track record of Islamist extremists inspired by al Qaeda ideology targeting soldiers in the West," he said.

Other areas the security services would look at, he added, would include which groups -- if any -- were behind the attack and whether it was home-grown.

Cruickshank said that there had been plots in the past when attackers had tried to target military personnel: the fact that Wednesday's murder happened near a military barracks in southeast London was significant.

"It's not clear if this particular officer was specifically targeted or he just happened to be walking through this area and was a target of opportunity," said Cruickshank, "but it seems that more than one individual was part of this attack, so this could well have been planned. We just don't know."

CNN affiliate ITN has broadcast a video showing a man at the scene of the attack with bloody hands and holding a meat cleaver, saying: "We swear by almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you." He then continues: "The only reasons we killed this man this is because Muslims are dying daily. This British soldier is an eye for an eye, a tooth for to

[93patrol]

That's shocking and saddening not to mention disgusting cowardly attack on a person not just a soldier.

Effing wanker


Guns don't kill people, people with mustachios kill people

[Drew]

Absolutely disgusting. These two guys have now changed the rules and unfortunately a lot of innocent people will suffer.

What's more concerning is how we don't treat these attacks as hate crimes.

[93patrol]

Absolutely disgusting. These two guys have now changed the rules and unfortunately a lot of innocent people will suffer.

What's more concerning is how we don't treat these attacks as hate crimes.

Could also be racism


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[Drew]

Could also be racism


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I agree as its targeted towards western cultures (European based cultures) then it's not hard to see it as race based but we don't seem to talk about it.

[NP99]

I agree as its targeted towards western cultures (European based cultures) then it's not hard to see it as race based but we don't seem to talk about it.

Lets not upset the PC do gooders !

[PMC]

G'day folks,

I found this to be a very interesting article. Enjoy!

Regards,

RLI

Tony Blair says murder of Lee Rigby PROVES 'there is a problem within Islam'

Monday, Jun 03 2013

• Ex-PM says 'the ideology behind his murder is profound and dangerous'
• Bold intervention comes of ever of Cameron Commons speech
• Blair urges governments to 'be honest'

By Glen Owen, Mail on Sunday Political Correspondent

Tony Blair today makes his most powerful political intervention since leaving Downing Street by launching an outspoken attack on ‘the problem within Islam’.

The former Prime Minister addresses the shocking killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich by going further than he – or any front-rank British politician – has gone before over the issue of Muslim radicalism.

Writing in today’s Mail on Sunday, he departs from the usual argument that Islam is a peaceful religion that should not be tainted by the actions of a few extremists. Instead, Mr Blair urges governments to ‘be honest’ and admit that the problem is more widespread.

‘There is a problem within Islam – from the adherents of an ideology which is a strain within Islam,’ he writes.

‘We have to put it on the table and be honest about it. Of course there are Christian extremists and Jewish, Buddhist and Hindu ones. But I am afraid this strain is not the province of a few extremists. It has at its heart a view about religion and about the interaction between religion and politics that is not compatible with pluralistic, liberal, open-minded societies.’

He adds: ‘At the extreme end of the spectrum are terrorists, but the world view goes deeper and wider than it is comfortable for us to admit. So by and large we don’t admit it.’

Mr Blair’s comments are likely to be seized on by critics who will argue that by leading us into the Iraq War he has helped to swell support for radical Islam around the globe.

Outspoken: The former Prime Minister addresses the shocking killing of Drummer Lee Rigby, pictured, by going further than he - or any front-rank British politician - has gone before over the issue of Muslim radicalism

The former PM’s remarks come as David Cameron prepares to make a Commons statement about the Woolwich murder tomorrow afternoon. The statement will come just hours after the first meeting of the Prime Minister’s Tackling Extremism and Radicalisation Task Force (TERFOR) – made up of senior Ministers, MI5, police and moderate religious leaders – tomorrow morning.

‘President Assad is brutally pulverising communities hostile to his regime.’ Mr Blair says that ‘the overwhelming desire of the West is to stay out of it’, which he goes on to describe as ‘completely understandable’.

He suggests that ‘the problem within Islam’ can start to be tackled by ‘educating children about faith here and abroad’.

Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a former Foreign Secretary and chairman of the Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee, said: ‘Much of what Tony Blair says is sensible.

‘The Islamic terrorists who kill people have the silent support of many more in their community who share their ideology, if not their methods.

‘But even combined, they represent only a small minority of British Muslims, and we must never forget that.

‘However, he appears to be still trying to justify the Iraq War rather than acknowledging that that war provided an unprecedented opportunity for the Sunni and Shia extremists to slaughter so many of their co-religionists.’

Whitehall sources said that it would be a ‘preliminary meeting’ to draw up the agenda for a full meeting within days. The group, which the Muslim Foreign Office Minister Baroness Warsi, will examine new powers to muzzle hate preachers.

Mr Cameron’s Commons speech is also expected to address the situation in Syria. In his article, Mr Blair, who is trying to establish a Palestinian state through his work as a peace envoy, also addresses the Syrian situation, warning: ‘We are at the beginning of this tragedy .  .  . Syria is in a state of accelerating disintegration.

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Funny how they can never tell the truth when in power. There is only one solution to the problem and the US showed us how back in WW2