South Africa P.I.G.

Plett couple shot execution-style

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbPjUVrYWZCl0ZYlzsg4UFx3qJ1lEyFGGg3CkDh4v9ktCl4BX9M_5jsrCLla6fah4hdFz5ESwTQh5oKiPCJzo9EtGREeKW19iwnDubaGtuHN6qTSCdeXZ4IUclUj_koLeTbBRDoVUaZo/s1600-h/crime-scene-kranshoek.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392146981491063794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbPjUVrYWZCl0ZYlzsg4UFx3qJ1lEyFGGg3CkDh4v9ktCl4BX9M_5jsrCLla6fah4hdFz5ESwTQh5oKiPCJzo9EtGREeKW19iwnDubaGtuHN6qTSCdeXZ4IUclUj_koLeTbBRDoVUaZo/s400/crime-scene-kranshoek.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 350px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 262px" /></a>POLICE investigating the discovery of a stolen car yesterday found the bodies of a man and his wife – both shot dead execution style – at their home on a smallholding outside Plettenberg Bay. CRIME SCENE .... Police vehicles at the house of murder victims Willem and Julie le Roux yesterday.Both 53-year-old Willem le Roux and his 50-year-old wife, Julie, were killed by a single gunshot to the forehead on their property near Kranshoek. The couple’s hands were bound, said police spokesman Captain Malcolm Pojie. The woman was found in a bedroom and her husband in one of two chalets on the property, about 70m from the main house. A team of police forensic investigators was still combing the crime scene last night. “The motive for the killings is not known at this stage, but it could have been theft,” Pojie said. “There are possibly two laptop computers missing.” The house had not been ransacked, with a number of valuables left untouched. Police, however, did find an open safe in the bedroom and a shotgun leaning against a wall, near where Julie le Roux’s body was found. It was not clear whether anything had been removed from the safe, though, Pojie said. The couple’s BMW was found abandoned on the premises of the South Cape College next to KwaNokuthula, less than 10km from the crime scene. Police who were tracing the car’s owner found the bodies at the Le Roux home yesterday afternoon. The time of death could not immediately be established, but the couple may have been killed at the weekend already. Pojie said a relative had last spoken to Willem le Roux on Saturday at about 2pm. “That was the last time we know of that they were seen alive. “We appeal to the community for information which could help us in our investigations,” Pojie said. Anyone with information should phone the investigating officer, Sergeant Theodore Windvogel, on 044-5330121 or 073-1688808. The savage killings were the second murder in three weeks in Plettenberg Bay area. Two teenagers were arrested last month in connection with the murder of 78-year-old librarian Johanna Blignault, who was stabbed in her home in Wittedrift last month.

Plett couple shot execution-style

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2010 Terror Plot: 'SA not ready'

An expert on Islamic militancy has warned that the South African intelligence services are "woefully, inadequately prepared" for the potential threat of terrorism during the World Cup next year. <object height="313" width="384"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c-AibsUL_SM&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c-AibsUL_SM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="384" height="313" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> Hussein Solomon, head of the International Institute of Islamic Studies in Pretoria, said militants had already established cells in South Africa. He was commenting today on reports that Somali terrorists linked to al-Qaeda have been planning to attack US interests here. The Weekend Argus reported that the US government had closed its embassy in Pretoria and all other US government facilities for two days last month because intelligence agencies had intercepted a call from Khayelitsha to the al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab Islamist extremist terror group in Somalia, discussing a plot to blow up American interests. This was apparently to be in retaliation for the US military killing of an Al-Shabaab commander in southern Somalia. The US suspected the commander of having played a role in the fatal bombing of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar el Salaam in 1998. The sources added that the efforts by local intelligence agencies to trace the Cape Town Somalis was disrupted when police commissioner Bheki Cele went on national television to say that the country's intelligence structures were on top of the situation. This prompted the Somalis to go further underground. Solomon said today that he had been trying to warn authorities for some time about the threat of terrorist action during the World Cup. He said international policing agency Interpol had already warned of such a threat but the South African intelligence services did not seem to be listening. "Our intelligence services are extremely politicised," Solomon said, adding that they would rather spy on investigative journalists to discover their sources than spy on potential terrorists. "When I interact with our counter-intelligence people, they are more concerned about the Boeremag than al-Qaeda... But they are acting from an ideological perspective which is fundamentally out of sync with reality." Solomon pointed to several instances where he said the local intelligence and security leadership had ignored potential terrorist threats for ideological reasons. He said the Pakistan government was convinced that two South Africans arrested in Pakistan after a gunfight between security forces and al-Qaeda elements a few years ago were linked to al-Qaeda. But they had simply been released on their return to South Africa. This also happened to two South Africans arrested in Uganda more recently. "Everyone outside this country seems to know who is threatening South Africa. We must not think we are protected because we are far away. Often these things have nothing to do with South Africa. They are just an opportunity to attack America." Other sources said that Somali terrorists devised the strategy to take on the US in South Africa because it was easier than fighting the superpower in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia. NIA spokeswoman Lorna Daniels refused to comment on the weekend reports. A source quoted in the Weekend Argus said: "What has been established is that the Cape guys are linked to al-Qaeda cells in Somalia, who are connected to the group in Afghanistan. We have established that most al-Qaeda operatives are relocating from Afghanistan to Pakistan, attracted by increased lawlessness in Pakistan. "Our information is that there is a trail that links Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and, most interestingly, Mozambique where Somalis have formed an anti-US cell already. The interception revealed that these people plan to move en masse from Mozambique to here (SA) in 2010 to attack American interests. Their point is that SA is not a target, but if South Africans are caught in the crossfire, then that would be unfortunate. "Part of the intercepted conversations are on how America was stronger elsewhere but could be vulnerable here in South Africa." This in spite of the US boosting security at its new premises in Sandton and Pretoria. US embassy spokeswoman Sharon Hudson-Dean refused to comment on the threat, saying: "We do not comment on intelligence matters." An NIA official said yesterday: "This is classified information. If you publish it, this will jeopardise an operation already under way." However, the source said Cele had already said publicly that intelligence officers were on the track of the extremists. "I do not mean to be alarmist, but the US was right to take these people seriously because, we now know that they have links with shady characters who have access to old military hardware in Eastern Europe," said the source.

2010 Terror Plot: 'SA not ready'

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Couple’s nightmare attack ‘must serve as a warning’

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2BtnNy6_62jyU8EaDN-Vw_T_cqjiyVCDYV4XXb02GizUfTC660lun9xIHiT3e_StvTjNUw0WQgFzigKX0mNVBsELGRCwHVcDUTtAPUoBnJBQcD0CLSf4WOR2YXwOCGTc7KqOazolakl4/s1600-h/crime-sa.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391835091537855186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2BtnNy6_62jyU8EaDN-Vw_T_cqjiyVCDYV4XXb02GizUfTC660lun9xIHiT3e_StvTjNUw0WQgFzigKX0mNVBsELGRCwHVcDUTtAPUoBnJBQcD0CLSf4WOR2YXwOCGTc7KqOazolakl4/s320/crime-sa.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 255px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" /></a>A PORT Elizabeth family is still reeling after an horrific attack in which their 21-year- old son and his 20- year-old girlfriend (who was gang raped by the four attackers) were beaten, robbed, bombarded by hate speech and abandoned on a deserted stretch of dune area off Marine Drive.The traumatised couple was attacked after sunset last Friday while packing the young man’s vehicle after a picnic near Noordhoek. The couple were forced into the boot of their car and driven to an isolated spot where they were terrorised for several hours. The mother of the 21-year-old who was attacked said she decided to speak out about her son and his girlfriend’s “nightmare ordeal” to warn others of the “overwhelming danger” at some of Nelson Mandela Bay’s public spaces – and to clear up misleading media reports. “I don’t want this to happen to anyone, ever,” the tearful mother said yesterday. “Our beautiful children’s lives have been changed in an instant and will never be the same again. As a family, we are devastated.” She said the two were packing up at sunset when two men came “out of nowhere” and held them at gunpoint. Two more men appeared to be waiting at the site they were later taken to. The mother said the thugs made the couple throw out their picnic gear and shoved them into the boot of the hatchback. They were then “taken off the beaten track” to a secluded spot down a gravel road off the main road, where they were tied up. Two of the assailants left at one stage to draw R150 from the girl’s bank account – R150 was her daily limit. A source close to the investigation, who asked not to be named, said the money was withdrawn from an ATM in Rink Street, Central. “Most banks have CCTV surveillance and police are investigating to see if there is any evidence from this,” the source said. When the two attackers returned, all four of the men bombarded the couple with hate speech, put a gun to the man’s head and assaulted them. The four then left in her son’s car, the mother said. Fearing they would return, “my son decided they had to escape”. The couple managed to free themselves from their restraints and leopard-crawled through the sand dunes before reaching the shoreline. The brother of the young man said: “They ran for about 45 minutes along the coastline until they reached the Noordhoek Skiboat Club, where a party was being held. The mother said it was “an absolute miracle” her son and his girlfriend’s lives were spared, but wanted to know why there had not been more media reports of similar incidents that had happened along this stretch of coast. “What happens if the next attack results in a fatality? “The public have a right to know what is going on. Are they (police and media) keeping incidents under wraps because of 2010 (Fifa World Cup) and tourism,” asked the shattered woman. She urged other parents to warn their children of the dangers. “They have to be careful. We need to speak to our children about going to public places that we should all be able to visit, but that are dangerous.” In an e-mail sent to friends and colleagues, the brother of the man who was hijacked gave more details of the horror attack. “My younger brother and his girlfriend were hijacked at gunpoint by four (men) in the Willows area and forced into the boot of my brother’s Polo hatch-back. “They were driven to a deserted stretch of bush and sand dunes,” he said. “There, their attackers bombarded the two with hate speech, but also put a gun to my brother’s head and demanded cash.” He said the men were apparently foreigners from West Africa. “They (tied them up), gagged them and drove off in their car.” He described further how the two then managed to untie themselves. “They leopard- crawled through the sand dunes and reached the shoreline and proceeded to run for about 45 minutes until they reached the Noordhoek boat club.” “Luckily for them they managed to get assistance from a group of people who were having a party there. “It was then I received a phone call that has shattered both families. “My brother has to free himself of the feeling of helplessness he is experiencing, and (they have to deal with) the sheer shock both of them would have experienced throughout their ordeal.” He said the incident had crushed a lot of spirits and it would take a lot of faith to lift his devastated brother and his partner out of this misery. “No one should have to go through what the two of them endured. When people are forced to steer clear of areas every living being should have free and equal rights to frequent, there is something seriously wrong with society.” Another man, who had stopped to watch some fishing boats, was also hijacked and tied up on the same night, allegedly by the same thugs.

Couple’s nightmare attack ‘must serve as a warning’

A PORT Elizabeth family is still reeling after an horrific attack in which their 21-year- old son and his 20- year-old girlfriend (who was g...

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