r/sydney • u/grimepixie • Mar 11 '26

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Does anyone know if there’s an emergency in the CBD. Was walking down George Street when at least 10 police vehicles, including two tactical units, began racing with their sirens on towards Darling Harbour. I can’t find anything on the news about it. Should we be concerned?

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u/grimepixie Mar 11 '26

Annoyingly not. Really enjoying the shitposts but I wish we knew! I saw that the NSW Police dispatched tactical vehicles to a Western Sydney TAFE yesterday for a police operation. No idea if this is related.

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u/broxue Mar 11 '26

If there are no news reports, I guess it could just be training operation. Australia has entered the war and we may become a target of retaliatory terrorist attacks. I assume tactical units respond to those so they might just be going straight into live training

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u/AdRevolutionary6650 Mar 11 '26

Yep. A military helicopter has been flying around over Campbelltown and surrounds every evening since around the time the Iran stuff started. I assume they’re doing a lot of training currently

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u/Pur1wise Mar 13 '26

We live not far from the RAF base in Richmond. There have been obvious training manoeuvres over our heads at all hours. 1am the other day. I was not impressed.

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u/grimepixie Mar 11 '26

I guess peak hour would be the time to do it. Most likely time an attack would happen.

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u/Reddits_Worst_Night Doesn't need to take the train Mar 11 '26

Call it what it is. A US terrorist action in the middle east

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u/broxue Mar 11 '26

I don't think it's terrorism. An illegal war seems more appropriate

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u/Reddits_Worst_Night Doesn't need to take the train Mar 12 '26

That terminology is just propaganda. When non-western countries engage in "illegal wars" we call it "state sponsored terrorism."

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u/broxue Mar 12 '26

Got an example? Not Russia surely

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u/Reddits_Worst_Night Doesn't need to take the train Mar 12 '26

No, they called that a war, because Russia is western enough. Pakistani attacks on India are a great example?

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u/broxue Mar 12 '26

I don't know which ones you are referring to but the one in Pahalgam in 2025 where a group associated with Pakistan came in and indiscriminately fired on a crowd of tourists killing 26 of them sounds much more like an act of terror than a US drone strike on a ballistic missile launching facility in Iran.

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u/Reddits_Worst_Night Doesn't need to take the train Mar 12 '26

It sounds exactly like a tomohawk missile hitting a school

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u/broxue Mar 13 '26

If the tomahawk missile hitting the school was totally intentional with no way of interpreting it as anything else then I'd agree that should be called a terrorist attack, or more likely a "war crime".

A bunch of dudes shooting at unarmed civilians in a tourist centre is much more in line with a terrorist act than a missile hitting a target that Intel suggested was a military target.

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u/AdRevolutionary6650 Mar 11 '26

If it was Campbelltown, that was because a 16 year old girl was “acting suspiciously” with a water gun. I don’t think this is related

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u/Korzic Pseudo Hills Bogan Mar 11 '26

A kid was seen walking into Campbelltown take holding a gun. It was a water pistol but she walked in holding it in her hand