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Australia breaks up prison gang
By Reuters
Published: 04/24/2007

VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA - A group of murderers and rapists who converted to Islam in Australia's Super Max prison has been broken up and its leader moved to another jail as officials feared they were using religion as a cover for a possible escape.

The 12 prisoners in Australia's highest-security jail were nicknamed the "Super Max Jihadists", authorities told local media, and had placed pictures of al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden on cell walls, shaved their heads and grown long beards. Read more.

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