Today's Outrage

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Flights to Australia a target, court told
By Martin Daly
May 25, 2004

Al-Qaeda leaders talked about destroying American and Israeli airlines flying to Australia a year before the September 11 attacks in the United States, a court heard yesterday.

The strikes were part of a plot outlined in early 2000 in the Pakistan city of Karachi by al-Qaeda's second in command, Mukhtar, in talks with alleged al-Qaeda conspirator Jack Roche.

Roche, 50, a British-born Islamic convert, has denied plotting with senior al-Qaeda officials to bomb the Israeli embassy in Canberra, with intent do endanger lives.

Read the whole story here: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/24/1085389333745.html