ASIO and the Australian Defence Force have detected an extremist plot to infiltrate military ranks and find more recruits. This is what we know about these extremists and their mission.
Extremists including neo-Nazis are attempting to join the military and or recruit some already within Australian Defence Force ranks in an alarming plot to push their destabilising agenda.
ASIO in concert with Defence has identified a rising number of individuals with “ideologically motivated extremism” either actively being groomed in their ranks or trying to join.
According to Defence sources, the move is to attain military training to boost their skill set “capabilities” although for what is not clear.
The revelation comes as in the UK a former soldier who escaped from prison had been facing charges of eliciting personal information from the Ministry of Defence Joint Personnel Administration System, breaching the Secrets Act and “likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism”.
In that case, the ex-soldier Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was due to face trial in November before his dramatic escape from a south London jail by strapping himself to the underside of a delivery van. He was arrested Saturday near Chiswick in west London, and is in police custody.
Read the article by Charles Miranda in the Geelong Advertiser.