Haneef demands wider inquiry
The hide of the bastard! He may be innocent although that was never fully tested in a court; the AFP may have handled the case less than perfectly but he still has a very iffy family who like to blow up innocents and from my point of view that is sufficient reason to bar him from entry into Australia.
In an exclusive interview from India, Dr Haneef said the inquiry should be given powers to ensure all documents are released, and that witnesses, including Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty and former immigration minister Kevin Andrews – as well as investigators, prosecutors and bureaucrats – are compelled to give evidence and face cross-examination.Well he would say that wouldn’t he? This is now going to be about compensation as he has a chance of sitting on easy money for the rest of his life.
Maurice Blackburn partner Rod Hodgson said he believed Dr Haneef had a strong claim for compensation. “He has had his reputation trashed, his career stalled, his liberty taken away, his life in Australia interrupted, his earnings reduced and his life turned upside down. “Those are all wrongs absolutely deserving of compensation.”There’s still too many questions about Haneef for us to let him dictate the terms of enquiry.
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I think you’re a bit hard on Haneef. Speaking of relatives, I had an uncle (since deceased) who was an IRA operative, but I was still allowed to visit Ireland years ago. Haneef can’t be held responsible for his ratbag relatives.
More on relatives – I have a niece who worked as a pediatric registrar at the same hospital as Haneef and had a fair bit to do with him. She thinks very highly of him both as a person and a doctor, and bristles when she talks about how he was treated.
The problem with the whole affair is that it very rapidly became a cause celebre for both sides of politics, who have milked it to death. Now that the power shift has occurred, Labor will use the issue in the same way as Andrews did, as a political weapon to discredit opponents.
National security should be quarantined as a political issue.
My bitch is not with Haneef per se but the fact that the Immigration Minister’s refusal of a visa is questioned. If anyone has an iffy association then the minister should be able to bar a visa without human rights people screaming. Anyone of us would bar a visitor to our house if we knew he had suicide bombers and western haters in his family..just makes sense.
Labor will use the issue in the same way as Andrews did, as a political weapon to discredit opponents.
You’re getting a bit loose there mate. I never saw it as a political move but rather a cover all risks move. The incident must be, and still is of some concern to security but you are right – Rudd will push it for all it’s worth.
I don’t think the terms of reference are wide enough to break open the security files so we will most probably never know the full story thus Haneef will never be fully cleared or damned and neither will the AFP of Andrews, leaving people to interpret the incident from their ideological base.
Pity really, as I still think there is some basis to the AFP’s case.