MAORI ACTIVISTS: TERRORISTS
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From: "tep...@hotmail.com" <tep...@gmail.com>
To: jan karaka <tep...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Police Report IRA-style war plan revealed
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Three more in court linked to terror raids 5:00AM Wednesday
February 20, 2008
By David Eames
Tame Iti appears in the Australian liftout magazine Good Weekend.
Anti-terror raids
Maori suspicious of latest arrests
More arrests in Urewera firearms inquiry
Three men appeared in Bay of Plenty courts yesterday as part of the
investigation into firearms offences linked with October's terror
raids.
Raunatiri Hunt, a 44-year-old security guard, and Tekaumarua
Wharepouri, 46, a nurse, both from Maketu, 30km southeast of Tauranga,
each faced seven counts of unlawfully possessing a range of firearms.
They did not enter pleas before Judge Louis Bidois, who gave them
until next Tuesday to arrange legal representation.
Crown prosecutor Greg Hollister-Jones had asked that the pair be
transferred to Auckland, where 16 others charged last year are due for
a pre-depositions hearing on March 5.
Strict bail conditions for Hunt and Wharepouri included residential
and non-association clauses, passports to be surrendered and a ban on
firearms.
The judge made an exception for the accused to associate with well-
known Tuhoe activist Tame Iti when required for work.
The charges allege the men were illegally in possession of the weapons
at Whakatane between October 11 and 14, with several co-accused.
The weapons specified in the charges include: a double barrel sawn-
off shotgun, an SKS or AK47 semi-automatic rifle, an Lliai SLR rifle
without magazine, an SKS with Dragunov style stock and banana
magazine, a rifle with scope, a semi-automatic rifle with a scope and
a Ruger rifle with stainless barrel and scope. A third man, 24-year-
old Philip Purewa, of Ruatoki, appeared later in the Whakatane
District Court on nine illegal possession charges. He was remanded on
bail to appear in the Auckland District Court on March 5.
A total of 19 now face charges following last year's raids, which
initially saw 16 people from across the North Island hauled into court
on a raft of firearms charges.
The raids were focused on Ruatoki, 20km south of Whakatane, where
police alleged terrorist training camps were being run.
After a month-long wait, Solicitor-General David Collins, QC, ruled in
November that Terrorism Suppression Act charges could not be brought
against the group.
The raids saw protests across the country, and Tuhoe people from the
Bay of Plenty announced late last year they would sue police to
restore mana and seek compensation.
Auckland lawyer Barry Wilson yesterday confirmed the suit was still in
motion and lawyers were awaiting further instructions from Tuhoe.
"It takes some time to get the case off the ground properly ... a
statement of claim has yet to be filed. An injustice was done, and it
needs to be put right."
He would not give a sum for any possible compensation claim.
None of the parties to the suit against police were arrested in the
raids, or face any charges.
The prosecutions are being handled through the office of the Auckland
Crown Solicitor, and prosecutor David Johnson yesterday confirmed a
pre-depositions hearing was scheduled for March 5 in Auckland.
He would not say if those arrested yesterday were charged as a result
of the ongoing investigation, or as a result of information received.
AUSTRALIA HAS TAME ITI COVERED
Australians woke up to Tame Iti at the weekend with the Sydney Morning
Herald's magazine running a cover story fronted by the activist and
looking at "the rise of Maori extremism".
The article backgrounded the so-called terror raids and subsequent
downgrading of charges and spoke to Iti and others about the Tuhoe
cause.
Little new information emerged, with Iti laughing off claims some of
those charged had threatened to kill politicians including Helen
Clark:
"You can go to any rugby club in this country and you will hear
someone say, 'Yeah, I am gunna kill that ... '
"It is just the way people talk around here ... with a bit of
paranoia, you can read anything you like into it," he said.
Iti told the paper's Good Weekend magazine his efforts were to achieve
a form of sovereignty.
- NZPA
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From: "tep...@hotmail.com" <tep...@gmail.com>
To: jan karaka <tep...@gmail.com>
Reply-to: tep...@gmail.com
Subject: Police Report IRA-style war plan revealed
---------------------------------
Three more in court linked to terror raids 5:00AM Wednesday
February 20, 2008
By David Eames
Tame Iti appears in the Australian liftout magazine Good Weekend.
Anti-terror raids
Maori suspicious of latest arrests
More arrests in Urewera firearms inquiry
Three men appeared in Bay of Plenty courts yesterday as part of the
investigation into firearms offences linked with October's terror
raids.
Raunatiri Hunt, a 44-year-old security guard, and Tekaumarua
Wharepouri, 46, a nurse, both from Maketu, 30km southeast of Tauranga,
each faced seven counts of unlawfully possessing a range of firearms.
They did not enter pleas before Judge Louis Bidois, who gave them
until next Tuesday to arrange legal representation.
Crown prosecutor Greg Hollister-Jones had asked that the pair be
transferred to Auckland, where 16 others charged last year are due for
a pre-depositions hearing on March 5.
Strict bail conditions for Hunt and Wharepouri included residential
and non-association clauses, passports to be surrendered and a ban on
firearms.
The judge made an exception for the accused to associate with well-
known Tuhoe activist Tame Iti when required for work.
The charges allege the men were illegally in possession of the weapons
at Whakatane between October 11 and 14, with several co-accused.
The weapons specified in the charges include: a double barrel sawn-
off shotgun, an SKS or AK47 semi-automatic rifle, an Lliai SLR rifle
without magazine, an SKS with Dragunov style stock and banana
magazine, a rifle with scope, a semi-automatic rifle with a scope and
a Ruger rifle with stainless barrel and scope. A third man, 24-year-
old Philip Purewa, of Ruatoki, appeared later in the Whakatane
District Court on nine illegal possession charges. He was remanded on
bail to appear in the Auckland District Court on March 5.
A total of 19 now face charges following last year's raids, which
initially saw 16 people from across the North Island hauled into court
on a raft of firearms charges.
The raids were focused on Ruatoki, 20km south of Whakatane, where
police alleged terrorist training camps were being run.
After a month-long wait, Solicitor-General David Collins, QC, ruled in
November that Terrorism Suppression Act charges could not be brought
against the group.
The raids saw protests across the country, and Tuhoe people from the
Bay of Plenty announced late last year they would sue police to
restore mana and seek compensation.
Auckland lawyer Barry Wilson yesterday confirmed the suit was still in
motion and lawyers were awaiting further instructions from Tuhoe.
"It takes some time to get the case off the ground properly ... a
statement of claim has yet to be filed. An injustice was done, and it
needs to be put right."
He would not give a sum for any possible compensation claim.
None of the parties to the suit against police were arrested in the
raids, or face any charges.
The prosecutions are being handled through the office of the Auckland
Crown Solicitor, and prosecutor David Johnson yesterday confirmed a
pre-depositions hearing was scheduled for March 5 in Auckland.
He would not say if those arrested yesterday were charged as a result
of the ongoing investigation, or as a result of information received.
AUSTRALIA HAS TAME ITI COVERED
Australians woke up to Tame Iti at the weekend with the Sydney Morning
Herald's magazine running a cover story fronted by the activist and
looking at "the rise of Maori extremism".
The article backgrounded the so-called terror raids and subsequent
downgrading of charges and spoke to Iti and others about the Tuhoe
cause.
Little new information emerged, with Iti laughing off claims some of
those charged had threatened to kill politicians including Helen
Clark:
"You can go to any rugby club in this country and you will hear
someone say, 'Yeah, I am gunna kill that ... '
"It is just the way people talk around here ... with a bit of
paranoia, you can read anything you like into it," he said.
Iti told the paper's Good Weekend magazine his efforts were to achieve
a form of sovereignty.
- NZPA
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