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Thread #104467 Message #2142976
Posted By: Bob Bolton
06-Sep-07 - 10:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush & The Coming Australia Election
Subject: RE: BS: Bush & The Coming Australia Election
G'day Fooles,
I am also VERY not impressed that Rudd is toeing the 'they could have been shot' line! What trigger happy loonies do we have now in this country? Americans?. Maybe you're "not impressed" ... but he was dead right ... they could have been shot ... by any of the police sniper teams, with English (Accuracy International) L96A1 sniper rifles on rooftops ringing the "Exclusion Zone".
In yesyerday's Sydney Morning Herald, they warned staff in adjoining buildings not to look out their windows ... the underlying threat was that they might decide people working in their usual office space - then looking out the windows - could be construed as possible "terrorists" ... and 'taken out!