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Hicks takes Brit bid to High Court

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The British government will be duty-bound to get Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks released as soon as possible if the High Court reverses a Home Office decision rejecting his application to become a citizen, his lawyer says. No they won’t
Hicks, formerly of Adelaide, applied to become a British citizenship but was denied by the Home Office on the grounds that he fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan.
And that’s why. Funny, isn’t it. Australia has wiped their hands of Hick so his mouthpiece tries a new tack. Now the Brits have wiped their hands of Hicks as well maybe the message is getting through.
War on Terror

Terrorists ignorant

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From Arab News JEDDAH, 24 November 2005 — About 85 percent of terror suspects detained in the Kingdom are in the age group of 18 to 25, according to Muhammad Al-Nujaimi, a faculty member of King Fahd Security Academy in Riyadh. He pointed out that 90 percent of these young people lacked proper understanding of Islam. Do tell!
General Musings

Bestiality charges dropped

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PROSECUTORS have dropped a charge of bestiality against a Sydney financier who is accused of aggravated cruelty against rabbits and a guinea pig.
The dead or dying animals were found in and around his York Street office between July and early August this year, police documents previously tendered to the court allege. Mr McMahon had also been accused of committing an act of bestiality against one rabbit in the early hours of August 1.
Mr McMahon’s lawyer, Douglas Marr, had previously told a court his client had been suffering serious mental health problems brought on by the use of the illegal amphetamine ice The devil made me do it, your Honour. Douglas Marr might think that’s a reasonable defence but I don’t. Sick bastard.
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Howard visits troops

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Prime Minister John Howard has made a risky, top secret visit to Afghanistan to tell elite Australian soldiers fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda that their country is proud of them.
Wearing a brown leather bomber jacket and accompanied by defence force chief Angus Houston, Mr Howard donned body armour and a helmet to land at Camp Russell in central Afghanistan, home to up to 190 Special Air Services (SAS) and Commandos sent to the country in August to stem the rise of insurgent forces.
After inspecting the camp, built from scratch by the Australians and named after Andrew Russell, Australia’s only military casualty in the war on terror in Afghanistan, Mr Howard told about 80 of the troops he was grateful for the job they were doing. “No-one should be taking Australian fighting men and women for granted. I don’t and Australians don’t,” he told them during a short address in the camp mess.
Defence

Polls …Yeah whatever!

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A PLUNGE in support for the Federal Government was a clear message that people did not like Prime Minister John Howard’s industrial relations plans, Labor frontbencher Penny Wong said today. Actually, I’m more inclined to think it’s that people don’t like the ACTU/ALP interpretation of Howards IR plans and when the battle smoke has been cleared away by some boring old facts people will be quiet happy. I respect the ALP’s right to claim victory when the polls are more favourable to them but it’s a long way out from the next election and by then common sense will prevail.
Politics

Nguyen court bid ‘questionable’

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HISTORY was against the latest bid to save condemned Australian Van Tuong Nguyen, a Singapore-based human rights campaigner said today.

…campaigner Sinapan Samydorai said the application to the court would require the approval of Singapore’s Government, and history showed this appeared unlikely.

Interestingly Singapore News has no original articles on Nguyen but links only to the Australian and Voice of America

The Straits Times doesn’t carry any mention of Nguyen at all on its front page nor does the local language Berita Harian (Daily News)

I’m not sure how this is going to pan out – I fear Nguyen’s days are truely numbered and all that is left to debate is the extent of the diplomatic fall-out between Singapore and Australia and will trade suffer.

If/When the Indonesians pass the death sentence on the Bali Nine then the debate is going to get louder and when it does it need rules. It is about the death sentence, not drugs. Nguyen and the Bali Nine are drug traffickers and will get little symapthy from mainstream Australia if they are sentenced to life in a rotten Asian goal, but the death sentence?

That is something different altogether.

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Could be good news…please let it be so

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From LGF
U.S. forces sealed off a house in the northern city of Mosul where eight suspected al-Qaida members died in a gunfight _ some by their own hand to avoid capture. A U.S. official said Sunday that efforts were under way to determine if terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among the dead.
Although The White House said Sunday that it was “highly unlikely” that the terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was among the dead one can live in hope. UPDATE: The news hasn’t improved overnight. This morning MSM caught up with the Blogger world and states it is unlikely that al-Zarqawi is amongst the dead
General Musings

Australia under attack!

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Long-range American bombers will be able to drop live bombs on an Australian training range in the Northern Territory under a key plan announced today. The training initiative between two allies prompted this letter to the Editor.
What depths of submissive deference to the superpower has us bending over to let George W. Bush’s Stealth bombers bang up the Northern Territory? Have we really got so little national pride as to let the US bomb Australian soil? Daele Healy Brisbane, QLD
Australia and the US have been training together in the US and here in Australia for over half a century. It’s no accident that our respective forces can work together as it takes a lot of hard work, planning and training to achieve force compatability. Yet somehow Daele (I bet he thanks Mum and Dad for that name) turns it into something reminiscent of the Japs bombing Darwin in 1942. Sometimes I think it a pity that the ADF can’t pick and choose who they protect. We could set up an area in central Australia (or maybe the Northern Territory) where all idiots of Daele’s class could go and live in peace to conduct there sit-ins, have continuous live feeds to a local TV station especially set up for those who enjoy protest marches and with a local newspaper, distributed locally only, dedicated to their thoughtless letters. Let the rest of us get on with what has to be done.
Defence

Pen mightier than the sword

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ASTOUNDING comments from Amanda Vanstone ridiculing federal airline security measures and questioning increased spending on national security warranted an apology and the Immigration Minister’s resignation, Labor frontbenchers said last night. I have literally made similar observations to Amanda Vanstone except I use a ball point as an example. A ball point pen can be a weapon in the hands of anyone capable of stabbing another human and this fact simply demonstrates how hard total security is. Amand’s comments are relevant but should be made outside of the public arena lest politicians and journalists devoted to the destabilisation of the Howard government get to sing and dance about every utterance she makes. Still, it gives ammo for Matt Price and Glen Milne to bolster their attack on Howard and I now wonder how Milne will include the event in his monthly Howard threatened by Costello article. On a positive note Amanda has managed to get IR off the front page all by herself. Well done!
Politics

What happened to the pistol?

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The story of Australians being held for attempting to carry a disassembled pistol and bullets onto a plane in Syria has been downgraded to ‘young boy souveniring a used cartridge’.
The son of one of four Australian women detained in Syria amid fears of a hijacking plot says an empty gun cartridge souvenired by a child travelling with them sparked the drama.
But the lead in the original article was based on the disassemble pistol.
Early reports about the women’s detention had said a dismantled gun was found inside a toy carried by a child who was with them.
So what happened to it?
General Musings
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