THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: The campsite on the 50,000-hectare cattle station in the red dirt country at Louth was booked by phone in the name of Adam George.
Expecting a group of feral fox and pig hunters on safari to the back of Bourke, the property owner left directions in a mailbox and saw just one man, who simply called himself "Joe".
The company Joe kept alarmed the locals. The seven men - led by Aimen Joud from Melbourne and Mohamed Ali Elomar from Sydney - got lost and had to ask for directions.
"They stood out to the local community when they were driving through … Some of them were wearing camouflage fatigues … Some of them are large gentlemen, so just their physical presence stands out," NSW Police terrorism investigations squad head Detective Inspector David Gawel, says.
Of course, Adam George was a fake name that had been previously used to try to buy laboratory gear to manufacture chemicals to build a bomb.
The men were on a training and bonding exercise, armed with .308 and .22 rifles and components of an explosive device. (+ video) » | Debra Jopson | Saturday, February 04, 2012
