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December 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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A man has appeared in court charged with receiving weapons snatched during a raid on a Darwin naval base last week.
A man wearing military-style clothing and a balaclava broke into the HMAS Coonawarra base early Friday, overpowering a sailor on a patrol boat and stealing 14 weapons from its armoury.
The guns – 12 9mm pistols and two pump-action shotguns – were recovered by police during a weekend raid on a property in Darwin’s CBD.
James Horiaparaurau Hau, 40, today faced the magistrates court charged with receiving stolen property and possessing firearms without a licence.
During a brief appearance, Hau’s lawyer told the magistrate his client would plead guilty.
Hau is expected to re-appear in court tomorrow.
Police are still hunting for the man who raided the patrol boat, and have not ruled out the possibility that it was committed by someone connected to the Defence Force.
During a visit to Williamstown dockyard in Victoria this morning, Defence Minister Stephen Smith rejected suggestions that base security had been compromised by “alleged” spending cuts.
“Let’s just very carefully understand what has occurred here,” he said.
“Firstly, in 2009, when there was a foiled attempt on Holsworthy [Army Base], the Government immediately committed itself to a review of base security.
“That was a wholesale review. There were some 33 recommendations, 31 of those recommendations have been implemented. Not all of those recommendations have been made public for the obvious reason. And there are two outstanding recommendations which are in the process of being implemented.
“One goes to the capacity of Defence Force personnel to use arms, and legislation to that effect was recently passed through the Parliament.
“And the second is a major infrastructure upgrade over and across 16 priority bases.
“Coonawarra is not one of those bases. Coonawarra has had some substantial change made to it in terms of its arrangement as a result of the review that we instituted.
“We saw the terrible breach in the last few days, the Chief of Navy immediately instituted a review of arrangements at Coonawarra, and at the same time instituted an investigation as to the causes as to that break-in.”
Topics:
navy,
armed-robbery,
darwin-0800,
australia
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Source Article from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-03/police-continue-hunt-for-weapons-thief/4404270
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