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Th Aug 11 -

OZ QAEDA -

*Australian intelligence officers are studying a video broadcast on Arab television showing a masked militant with an apparently Australian accent making terror threats, officials said on Wednesday.*
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*ASIO officers were stunned when this balaclava-clad man appeared on Arab television yesterday threatening a bloody campaign against Western countries with troops inside Iraq...

Deliberately switching between a London cockney and Australian accent, the man appeared determined to disguise his origins.

But language experts yesterday told The Daily Telegraph the man probably spent part of his childhood in Australia and it was more likely his British accent was fake.

"From listening to this man speak, it's clear he has spent quite a bit of his youth in Australia," Dr Felicity Cox from Macquarie University said.*

Accent on terror ...
do you recognise the voice?
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*Forensic linguist Georgina Heydon, of Monash University, said the man's speech suggested his parents came from a non-English-speaking background, but it was not possible to say where in Australia he had lived.

Further, detailed, phonetic analysis of the man's voice was possible, but it would take weeks, Dr Heydon said.*

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