NEWS: Australia's Sole Nuclear Plant Believed Terrorist Target, page 2

The problem I have with this, is that in 16 months all they managed to do was allegedly cut a lock and possess chemicals capable of making explosives.

It seems far more likely this is a government conspiracy to scare the people into giving up freedom in the name of security.
I say this based solely on the incompetence level of the alleged plot.

Come one, everyone on this thread knows you cant bomb a reactor and cause an explosion.
The only possible thing they could have hoped for was to make a "dirty bomb".

If it took them 16 months to come up with this extremely flawed plan and all they managed to do was cut a lock, then we really in all seriousness have nothing to fear.

However what has probably happened is this:
The government wants more control of the people.
They make up a story about a possible terrorist attack.
The cops pick some muslim citizens they questioned in the area of the reactor and put them on their "fact sheet" along with an alleged cut lock.

Think about it, if the lock was cut then they would have already done the deed.

Why would they cut the lock and leave it?????

Simple, they didn't.
There never was a cut lock, it was just words on a paper.
The cops made it up to make it sound more convincing.
Since the cops said it was cut then no one can say otherwise.
Thats what I believe, I have no evidence either, but I want to demonstrate that I too can point fingers.
Doesn't make it any more or less true.

I do not sympathise with real terrorists.
I do however sympathise with innocent people who are being treated as criminals before any evidence is even presented!

Look at the outcome though.
They say they caught some terrorist scum and everyone cheeres and those who question it are bashed.

I dare say, the day we accept what our government tells us as fact is the day we put on our own shackles.

Question authority, Deny ignorance!

[edit on 14-11-2005 by mrjones]