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Wednesday January 24, 06:30 PM
Editor defiant despite death threats :rollpin:
The editor of an Arab-Australian newspaper has vowed to keep publishing, despite death threats from someone claiming to represent al-Qaeda.
An unidentified man left a message on the Al-Furat answering machine, saying he planned to blow up its offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
He threatened to kill Hussein Khoshnow, the paper's editor-in-chief, and all Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ites in Australia in the call, which was made on Sunday, January 14.
But Mr. Khoshnow is defiant.
"We're not stopping what we are doing," he said. "We will continue and if you have a different opinion, if you have a different view, that's not the way to answer it.
"Such a terror attack wouldn't stop us doing our newspaper and we will continue."
Mr. Khoshnow said he believed the message was left by an Australian-born youth.
"From his background, it sounds like he's a Sunni guy and he's a supporter of Saddam Hussein as well as speaking on behalf of al-Qaeda," he said.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and New South Wales police are working to trace the call and the identity of the caller.