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Originally posted by Ahmad
Actually, it was sighted as a "potential" target, they don't actually know. And what happened to being innocent before being proven guilty? Has that concept been lost on people who have beards or are of a particular faith?
You've obviously been taken in by the over-dramatic, manipulating media that we've all come to know nowadays.
It's pretty damn obvious that it was one of the targets because coincidently, three of those arrested were "found" near the reactor last year by police, INSIDE the security zone.
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Mazen Touma, Mohammed Elomar and Abdul Rakib Hasan were interviewed after they were stopped near an access road to the reservoir that supplies the reactor with its cooling water.
The men were inside the reactor's 1.6km security zone.
A padlock on the reservoir's access road was found to be cut, the police statement of facts said.
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In December last year, Mr Touma, Mr Elomar and Mr Rakib Hasan were stopped by police near the Lucas Heights reactor.
They claimed they were in the area to ride a trail bike, but gave differing accounts of their activities that day. Police said the lock for a gate to a reservoir near to the reactor had recently been broken.
The document describes how members of the group, from Sydney's southwestern suburbs, travelled to far western NSW to conduct terror training.
Police traced them to Curranyalpa, an 8900ha property 140km southwest of Bourke, where they later found a campsite, ammunition shell cases, a fire-damaged torch battery and four spark plugs. Police believe the group also went to another camp, at Mulga Creek Station, near Bourke, in April.
[edit] - Also want to add, before I get attacked again for this, that maps and photos of the reactor were found at the campsite too. Please don't try and tell me they were going sight seeing
