HASH-CRAZED TERRORIST TURKS SHOOT AUSSIES
March 16th 2007 20:48
HASH-CRAZED TERRORIST TURKS SHOOT UP AUSSIE TRAIN -FULL OF BROKEN HILL ODDFELLOWS
Terrorism in Australia is in the air again, or at least in the media following the guilty conviction of Willie Brigitte in France this week on charges relating to committing a terrorism act. Brigitte had entered Australia as a tourist in 2003 and that’s prompted politicians and media to warn that “terrorism” could happen here.
Yikes.
But hang about, it already has happened , almost a hundred years ago, under quite odd indeed even dopey circumstances.
Australia had it first ‘homeland’ terrorist action in 1915 when hash-maddened Muslims opened fire on a train full of Oddfellows at Broken Hill.
While our lads were fighting Turks in Gallipoli, Turkish and Afghan migrants shaped up for the Battle of Broken Hill which began at high noon on New Year’s Day, 1915. A mixture of hashish and crazed patriotism reportedly triggered the battle.
Two Turks were at the forefront of the hostilities. The elderly Mullah Abdullah was the Imam for the Afghan camel-driving community.
During the war he plied a donkey-drawn ice cream cart and was abused by Broken Hill hooligans.
In 1914 he befriended Gool Mohammed, a young Turk who had grown wealthy plying his own trade. He was the hashish dealer for the Afghan camel dealers and he had made four lucrative hash runs to Turkey.
On New Years Eve 1914, Gool and Abdullah settled into a hash smoking binge and by the dawn of 1915 the pair had agreed to seek a glorious death by attacking their country’s enemies.
At noon that day a train containing 120 members, family and friends of the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows steamed out of Broken Hill for the Oddfellows annual picnic.
Two miles out of Broken Hill passengers noted a deserted ice cream cart standing by the track, flying the Turkish star and crescent. The two Turks, hidden behind a sand dune, opened fire with old sniper rifles.
News of the attack was telegraphed to Broken Hill and several hundred troops and police were sent to quell the enemy. Gool was quickly killed but Abdullah kept the troops pinned down for almost an hour. In the early afternoon, the troops charged and overran his position. He died shortly afterwards.
At the end of the skirmish six people lay dead, seven were wounded, and the Afghan camel drivers were wondering where to find their next hashish connection.
Terrorism in Australia is in the air again, or at least in the media following the guilty conviction of Willie Brigitte in France this week on charges relating to committing a terrorism act. Brigitte had entered Australia as a tourist in 2003 and that’s prompted politicians and media to warn that “terrorism” could happen here.
Yikes.
But hang about, it already has happened , almost a hundred years ago, under quite odd indeed even dopey circumstances.
Australia had it first ‘homeland’ terrorist action in 1915 when hash-maddened Muslims opened fire on a train full of Oddfellows at Broken Hill.
Two Turks were at the forefront of the hostilities. The elderly Mullah Abdullah was the Imam for the Afghan camel-driving community.
During the war he plied a donkey-drawn ice cream cart and was abused by Broken Hill hooligans.
In 1914 he befriended Gool Mohammed, a young Turk who had grown wealthy plying his own trade. He was the hashish dealer for the Afghan camel dealers and he had made four lucrative hash runs to Turkey.
On New Years Eve 1914, Gool and Abdullah settled into a hash smoking binge and by the dawn of 1915 the pair had agreed to seek a glorious death by attacking their country’s enemies.
At noon that day a train containing 120 members, family and friends of the Manchester Unity Order of Oddfellows steamed out of Broken Hill for the Oddfellows annual picnic.
News of the attack was telegraphed to Broken Hill and several hundred troops and police were sent to quell the enemy. Gool was quickly killed but Abdullah kept the troops pinned down for almost an hour. In the early afternoon, the troops charged and overran his position. He died shortly afterwards.
At the end of the skirmish six people lay dead, seven were wounded, and the Afghan camel drivers were wondering where to find their next hashish connection.
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