(Sydney) Suburb in complete lockdown

[rooboy]

The Sydney suburb of Brighton-le-Sands has been locked down to all but residents after a five men were nabbed in a car equipped to function as a petrol bomb factory.

The men, understood to have links to a white supremacist group, were found in a car carrying a 25-litre drum of petrol and equipment to make molotov cocktails.

Police also said the men had commando-style utility belts, helmets, police scanners and portable radios.

Earlier today, two other men armed with molotov cocktails were arrested aboard a bus bound for Bondi Beach.

The suburb, on Botany Bay in Sydney's south, is the first to have a total lockdown imposed on it under new police powers passed at an emergency sitting of parliament.

Other suburbs hit by violence flowing from last Sunday's race riot at Cronulla have been partially locked down, but police have taken more extreme action at Brighton-le-Sands tonight.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/suburb-in-complete-lockdown/2005/12/18/1134840735951.html

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Suburb in complete lockdown

The Sydney suburb of Brighton-le-Sands has been locked down to all but residents after a five men were nabbed in a car equipped to function as a petrol bomb factory.

The men, understood to have links to a white supremacist group, were found in a car carrying a 25-litre drum of petrol and equipment to make molotov cocktails.

Police also said the men had commando-style utility belts, helmets, police scanners and portable radios.

Earlier today, two other men armed with molotov cocktails were arrested aboard a bus bound for Bondi Beach.

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[muriel_volestrangler]

2. It's situation like this when "police crackdown"

actually sounds like a good idea.

[xchrom]

3. i guess the idea that they are terrorists is

a bit of an intellectual stretch for them?

[Violet_Crumble]

4. I hope they are refused bail...

After finding out that they gave bail to someone who was involved in attacking people in a train at Cronulla after the new laws had come into effect, I'm not holding out much hope that anything more will happen with this lot than being questioned and released...

Violet...

[Matilda]

5. Unbelievable - Bondi beach on a summer Sunday ....

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It can't all be laid at Howard's door, but he bears some of the responsibility for the current
climate, and he's just not dealing with it at all.

[orleans]

6. the guilty party: