The Australian — National Security

Police to surrender terror file intercepts

14 July 2006

FEDERAL police have been ordered to hand over hundreds of hours of secretly taped conversations between Melbourne terror suspects before the men face a committal hearing.

10 charged with identity fraud

12 July 2006

TWO Malaysian men have been deported and 10 others charged with hundreds of fraud-related offences after a national police taskforce smashed one of the biggest alleged identity crime rackets uncovered in Australia.

Crackdown on extremist books

12 July 2006

ATTORNEY-GENERAL Philip Ruddock has called for tougher laws to ban extremist books after the Classification Review Board banned two radical Islamic tomes, the first books to banned in Australia in decades.

Police to seek new charges for Jamal

10 July 2006

AUSTRALIAN police have intensified their investigation of the alleged terrorism activities of fugitive Saleh Jamal on the eve of his forced return to Australia.

AFP back to traffic work in Dili

10 July 2006

ARMED peacekeepers will be needed in East Timor until at least after national polls slated for May next year.

Police to seek new charges for Jamal

10 July 2006

AUSTRALIAN police have intensified their investigation of the alleged terrorism activities of fugitive Saleh Jamal on the eve of his forced return to Australia.

JI cloak of charity masking its terror

10 July 2006

THE terror group responsible for the Bali bombings has adopted the deadly tactics of Palestinian militants Hamas by using charities and community projects to deflect attention from its ranks of suicide bombers.

Australia 'is still at risk'

07 July 2006

LABOR today warned Australia was wide open to a terrorist attack, while John Howard defended security measures a year after the deadly London bombings.

Accused terrorist in High Court bid

07 July 2006

AN Australian man accused of training with a Pakistani terrorist organisation will go to the High Court in an attempt to permanently block charges against him.

JI link to Jihad Jack's wife

06 July 2006

FEDERAL police knew the Indonesian-born wife of "Jihad Jack" Thomas had links with a Southeast Asian terror organisation before they interviewed the Muslim convert in Pakistan.

Bali bombers trio to appeal convictions

05 July 2006

THE three Bali bombers on death row will appeal their convictions in an attempt to avoid an Indonesian firing squad, angering the families of Australian victims.

ASIO believed Jihad Jack a serious threat

05 July 2006

AL-QA'IDA's leaders asked "Jihad" Jack Thomas to identify key military targets in Australia as part of a terror plot police believed posed "a very serious threat" to the nation.