Australia Warned Of Home Grown Muslim Terrorists

Australia's security organization warns some Australian-born Muslims may have become a terrorist threat. The warning, the first of its kind, was in the organization's annual report, The Australian reported Wednesday. John Howard, Australia's Prime MinisterThe report said that some Muslims have begun to perceive the world as locked in conflict between their co-religionists and western infidels. Investigators suggested several hundred people hold this view and about 80 Australians are believed to have spent time in terrorist training camps. "This perception engenders a sense of isolation and rejection, which is difficult for moderate elements in the Australian community to counteract, and the moderates are perceived to be part of the problem by the extremists," the report said. The government of Prime Minister John Howard has proposed new anti-terrorist legislation that would allow control orders on the movements of some individuals.