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Iraq
Australian teenager behind deadly suicide attack in Iraq
2014-07-22
An 18-year-old Australian man was behind a deadly suicide bomb attack in Iraq last week, authorities said Monday, with Attorney-General George Brandis calling it a "disturbing development".

The blast last Thursday near a mosque in Baghdad left several dead, including the teenager, who left Melbourne for the region last year. Reports said the Islamic State militant group named him as
George? Ian? Bruce?
Abu Bakr al Australi on an affiliated Twitter feed, with Brandis' office confirming he was Australian.

"This is a disturbing development and is a further example of the dangerous and volatile situation in Iraq at present," Brandis said in a statement. "The government deplores the violent actions being undertaken by ISIL and other extremist groups in Iraq and Syria, and is deeply concerned about the involvement of Australians in these activities.

"As I have said many times, it is illegal for Australians to engage in the conflicts in Iraq and Syria and the government urges Australians not to travel to the region."

The statement said he was the second Australian suicide bomber in the Iraq and Syria conflicts, without providing further details.

Last month Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she was deeply concerned that about 150 Australians, some dual citizens, were learning the "terrorist trade" fighting alongside militants in Iraq and Syria.
If they're going to the Middle East to be splodydopes then they're not "dual citizens". They're making their citizenship quite clear...
If they're going to be splodydopes, they won't be much of anything else in the near future. Citizens of Hell, perhaps, which overrides all previous allegiances.
"The participation by Australians in the conflict in Iraq and Syria poses a significant domestic security threat to Australia when those involved return home and seek to pursue violence here," said Brandis. "The government will continue to take all necessary measures to keep Australia and Australian interests safe."
Posted by:Steve White

#5  Why not take make being a foreign jihadi notice that you renounced citizenship.

Have a court, look at evidence the person's left. Then if guilty remove citizenship.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2014-07-22 15:02  

#4  it is so simple to fix. If there is evidence of people fighting as Jihadis in Syria or Iraq

Then you get sent to jail mandatory 20 years, passport confiscated on your return.

You also lose the right to import any more of your family through "family reunion" visas. Nobody related to you can immigrate forever.

simple. Most are dual citizens who won't come back.

The ones who are planning on it will be stopped by their families
Posted by: anon1   2014-07-22 10:39  

#3  so true procopius. We are regularly told that if we like our nation, we must be racist.

If you wave an Aussie flag on Australia day: you're racist.

If you're a Muslim Leb from Lakemba and you shoot up a Sikh temple that moved into the suburb, you're not racist though

Only white Westerners can be racist, we have the monopoly on that.
Posted by: anon1   2014-07-22 10:37  

#2  If its multiculturalism, then its not Australian. Illogical to have a nationalist tag to a non-nation which you become when you give up your national identity. Americans are experiencing that was they* have surrendered our southern national border.

* the transnational progressives (ie socialists) in charge.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-07-22 08:43  

#1  Makes me ashamed of australia

This is a failure of multiculturalism right here

Australian govt response is to introduce terrible legislation that would make it legal for the spy agencies to break the law

And then keep it secret, which means they will be compketely unaccountable

Leaving the system totally open to abuse. We have had royal commissions into our police forces here for corruption. Imagine what they will do with legal immunity and complete secrecy.

All because we haven't got the guts to draw a line under multiculturalism and give it some boundaries
Posted by: Anon1   2014-07-22 06:46  

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