Muslim terror plot against U.S interests in Australia.

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AN al-Qaida leader who visited Australia on a lecture tour in the late 1990s was allegedly involved in a plot to attack a US military base on Australian soil.
The claim comes after secret documents were made public for the first time this week.

An Algerian terrorist known as Abu Sheema and his associates allegedly revealed their plans to the former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib when he was in Afghanistan just weeks before the September 11 attacks.

Mr Habib revealed his knowledge of the alleged plot in a number of interviews with US officials after his arrest in Pakistan in October 2001.

Questioned by ASIO agents during his detention at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in 2002, Mr Habib said Abu Sheema had recruited people to go to Australia to carry out the operation and that Abu Sheema's offsiders had also asked him to smuggle dangerous chemicals into Australia but he had refused.

He said Abu Sheema's men claimed they had sleeper agents in Australia ready to act and had talked about having a "switch" in Australia, something he thought related to missile control systems.

In the interview, Mr Habib told the agents: "These people said if anything happens from America to Afghanistan, they have people with connection in Australia. They gunna do something."

He claimed Abu Sheema's associates - known as Abu Ibrahim and Abu Yusef - had talked to him about their plans to launch a strike on a US facility somewhere in Australia.
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See the Habibs in action.

[newman]

I'd love 'em to try it on. The new Labor gov't will be itching to prove it's just as hardassed on defense & security as the Tories.

[Kiwi]

I'd love 'em to try it on. The new Labor gov't will be itching to prove it's just as hardassed on defense & security as the Tories.

Well something the public doesn't know the New Government has chosen to disband a major Department that is focused on national security.