Video of masked militant with 'Australian accent' probed

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Australian intelligence officers are studying a video broadcast on Arab television showing a masked militant with an apparently Australian accent making terror threats, officials said.

The video, shown on Australian television after reportedly being aired on Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television, shows the man holding an automatic rifle and warning of attacks while criticising British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President Geoge W. Bush.

"The honourable sons of Islam will not just let you kill our families in Palestine, Afghanistan, Kashmir and the Balkans, Indonesia, the Caucuses and elsewhere," the militant says in what local media said appeared to be an Australian accent.

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The masked man, wearing a black balaclava and combat gear, claims a group of Al Qaeda "fighters" carried out an attack on a helicopter that killed 16 soldiers in Afghanistan in June.

Turkish Press

[GregW]

1. Stone the crows, Bruce! We'll launch a bloody jihad on yer sheilas!

Or as Hoges used to say ... "Anyhow, have a car-bomb"

[davidinalameda]

2. Mel Gibson perhaps

:shrug:

[Kipling]

3. Won't last. No Aussie stays away from his beer for long.

[wli]

4. probably Aussie special forces etc.

The usual thing; the attacks are fake, the assailants are brainwashed stormtroopers from the countries using the attacks as a pretext or allies thereof, etc.

[Moochy]

5. Osama Bin Bruce!! nt