Faizel Patel, 2016-08-11
The Media Review Network (MRN) says there is sufficient evidence to suggest that the Thulsie Twins were possibly arrested on the request of US authorities.
Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie are facing terrorism charges after the Hawks apparently found evidence that show they were planning attacks on American and Jewish interests in Johannesburg.
The MRN’s Dr Firoz Osman says the investigating officer Wynand Olivier had said in court that foreign intelligence agents prompted the Hawks to arrest the Thulsie siblings.
“Coming so soon after repeated warnings by the US embassy, the British embassy and then of course the Israeli embassy that there is going to be a terror attack on the malls of South Africa, then one has to point a finger at the American agencies and the FBI, because they’ve been responsible for issuing such terror alerts elsewhere as well.”
Osman says the perpetual notions of South Africa being under threat by terrorists will not end.
“This is what disconcerts us, that people besides Hoosein Solomons, there are other media personnel, you find all the time the same journalists come up with sensational headlines that are warning that South African Muslims or people that are in South Africa that may be cooling off carrying out terror alerts elsewhere.”
Osman says the MRN has asked the South African government to consider reviewing the anti-terror law because it was done as a coercive factor by the American government after the 9/11 attacks pressurizing South Africa and other countries to come on board and support the anti-terror bill.
“We don’t even know who is a terrorist, they don’t even know how to define terrorism and yet to target Muslims as terrorists when they don’t know what it means must be addressed.”
Osman says they have made various representations to the State Security Agency (SSA) and that Minister David Mahlobo conceded during a television interview there was pressure on the South African government to target certain sections of the community.
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