An imminent threat !

The danger of a terrorist attack on Australian soil has emerged with the news that six outdated but very lethal rocket launchers are in unknown hands within this country. Details are scarce but scuttlebutt suggests that they were either stolen from a Defence Department armoury or siphoned off somewhere in the manufacturing chain on orders from a leading Lebanese crime family based in Sydney who intended to use them to eliminate a criminal rival.
Apparently this family had second thoughts and instead of a rocket attack strafed the home of the rival with automatic weapon and pistol fire, killing the target person and one innocent woman. It is suggested that the Lebanese criminal then on-sold the rocket launchers to a terrorist cell.
One rocket launcher has been recovered, but the fact that five others are at large sends a shiver down the spines of security people. These weapons are capable of penetrating a tank and once inside discharge shrapnel that kills the crew, explodes weapon ordanance and incinerates the interior.
The entire security system is in overdrive trying to recover these weapons. There is evidence that they have been buried in plastic pipes to keep them safe from detection until the time comes for a terrorist attack to be implemented.
It is the nature of such an attack that has security worried. The rocket launchers are small and easy to conceal and there have been suggestions that the target could be the nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights. This has been discounted as experts deny that such weapons could penetrate the massive shielding much less cause a radioactive leak.
Security eyes are turning to a meeting of world leaders in Sydney later this year. They shudder at the thought of a terrorist in western Sydney stepping outside, lining up a launcher at a jumbo jet on low approach to Sydney airport and blowing it out of the air.
Then there are lesser targets, from the Prime Minister's car to office towers housing important government or industrial head offices.
One thing is certain. There will be an all efforts drive by the security people to recover these weapons and already one man is in custody and huge pressure is being brought down on Muslim suspects with terrorist leanings. Past terror scares have concerned people building bombs which are hard to position or conceal - but this threat is much more fundmental - and it will not go away until the rocket launchers are recovered !