Is this like Bush sending $100 million to Hizballah in southern Lebanon? Bruce Australian funds sent to extremists * http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/australian-funds-sent-to-extremists/2 006/08/21/1156012474777.html# Ian Munro August 22, 2006 MONEY raised in Sydney may have bought weapons for extremists in Malaysia and the Philippines, according to Jack Roche, the Perth man jailed for plotting to bomb the Israeli embassy in Canberra. Roche claims the money may have been used by the Indonesian-based terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah. Roche has been called as a prosecution witness in the committal hearing for 13 Melbourne men accused of forming a terrorist cell. He told the Melbourne Magistrates Court he began donating to Jemaah Islamiah soon after his 1993 conversion to Islam, and later gleaned from conversations with others that the money might have bought weapons and ammunition. Roche said he had been donating $15 a week for several years into a communal fund, the proceeds of which were sent to Malaysia every few months. "I understood it to be infaq, which is for the maintenance of Islam," Roche told the hearing by video link from Perth where he is serving a nine-year jail sentence. Questioned by Michael O'Connell for Izzydeen Atik, Roche agreed the money "could well have been sent back to Indonesia or the Philippines to buy weapons". "From what I gathered with talks with other members of the group, this was a possibility, yes," Roche said. He said that when he joined Jemaah Islamiah he was unaware that it was a terrorist organisation. He realised its terrorist links after travelling overseas in 2000. Roche met Hambali, the so-called operational head of JI, in February 2000. In a statement tendered to the court, Roche said he had heard: "Hambali wanted a Caucasian male who followed Islam to go to Indonesia for basic training in Afghanistan." He said he attended an al-Qaeda camp near Kandahar with about 250 others and that federal police had shown him a letter written in Arabic that appeared to him to be a letter of introduction for an intending jihadist "possibly to the point of martyrdom for Allah's cause". The letter read in part: "The holder of this letter is a known friend to us and has the desire to go out in Allah the Almighty's cause." Anyone intending to undergo military training like that would need such a letter, Roche said. The court had previously heard that one of the accused men, Amer Haddara, 26, of Yarraville, was found with a "letter of introduction" that was similarly worded in Arabic to other letters from terrorist training camps. British-born Roche, who was born Paul George Holland, said he changed his name to try to hide the fact that he had left NSW owing unpaid fines. FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with "Fair Use" criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of "Fair Use" was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. "Fair Use" legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include "criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research." Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a "fair use". A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of "fair use". Rather, "fair use" is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS.
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