Another possible Islamist attack in Australia

A van loaded with gas bottles crashed into the Australian Christian Lobby office in Canberra on Wednesday and then exploded.

No staff members were hurt but the condition of the driver is unknown Lyle Shelton, Lobby manager, tweeted. Along with Shelton's tweet was an image of the burnt out vehicle and he called it a "car bomb."

The blast was powerful enough to destroy several building windows and damaged an extensive amount of property.

The van headed toward the front of the building, a police spokesperson confirmed. 

Of course, no determination as to whether the event was intentional or accidental was made, but it's a Christian building, it's almost Christmas, the van was packed with gas and the incident comes only hours after another minivan drove into a farmers market in Beijing and few days after a Christmas market in Berlin was attacked by a jihadist with a truck.

No screams of "Allahu Akbar" were heard, but that doesn't mean they weren't screamed.

"There are no public safety issues and ACT are seeking any witnesses to the incident," the spokesperson said.

Please have a safe and happy Christmas and Hanukkah. 


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Will these attacks happen today?

You know them as Anonymous, a group of online activists who recently have vowed to fight against ISIS.

Yesterday, Anonymous said they discovered intel claiming ISIS plans an assault at the WWE Survivor Series event at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, GA on Sunday, today, at 7:30 pm EST. They also plan other attacks including multiple events in Paris and the hacker group lists them (see below).

Anonymous wrote in this statement: "The goal is to make sure the whole world, or at least the people going to these events, know that there have been threats and that there is possibility of an attack to happen. Another goal is to make sure Daesh knows that the world knows and cancels the attacks, which will disorient them for a while."

The list is as follows: 

1. Demonstration by Collectif du Droit des Femmes (Paris)

2. Concrete Invites Drumcode: Adam Beyer, Alan Fitzpatrick, Joel Mull at Concrete (Paris) 

3.  Cigales Electroniques with Vocodecks, RE-Play & Rawtor at Le Bizen (Paris)

4. Feast of Christ the King celebrations (Rome/worldwide)

5. Al-Jihad, One Day Juz (Indonesia)

6. Five Finger Death Punch (Milan)

7. Universal Pastoral Day (Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon)

Anonymous said: "We only appeared now because our goal was to remain undercover and report everything to the right authorities and let them take all the action. But when authorities do not take action, Anonymous does. This part of the op started last Monday and has [been] and will be active 24 hours a day as long as the op is going on."

The group said they have informed the CIA, FBI, MI5, and the Australian government. They have not released the proof they used to make their findings. Of course, it is entirely possible that the proof is bogus and they are being manipulated by ISIS. 

But who knows?

If the attacks happen, Anonymous is proven right. If the attacks do not happen, was it because Anonymous helped prevent them from happening?

Like I said, who knows?



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