THE Un-Australian Newspaper this morning says Ul-Haque saw West as 'animals'. Not far wrong either if you ask most Australians who have just witnessed those pictures from Iraq in relation to how they are treating prisoners of the occupation.
Are the West Animals? You bet! Don't be fooled by corporate propaganda invading our personal lives telling us stories about the politics of fear without looking at the way they are behaving first.
The people who have most to fear are the people who are throwing stones and making other people stand on a box with wires connected to their limbs and personals threatening electrocution and depriving them of human ethical standards.
Allegedly, when Mr Izhar Ul-Haque enrolled in a training camp in Pakistan last year, he was fed up with Westerners and their "animal type of lifestyle", a court heard yesterday.
Allegedly, In a letter to his parents, Mr Ul-Haque says he wanted to undergo weapons and combat training and eventually expected to die a martyr for a Pakistani group.
When he returned to Sydney after the camp, Customs officials allegedly found 30 books in his luggage including handwritten notes about rocket launchers, landmines, tanks and multi-purpose machineguns. Material you could probably get off the Internet or your local Pakistan library.
Mr Ul-Haque, 21, was charged earlier this month by the Federal-NSW Police Joint Counter-Terrorism Task Force with training with the group Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The taskforce is investigating French man Willie Brigitte, [another scapegoat for the Coalition of the Killing's resource war's in the Middle East], who was tipped back home for a visa breach. Allegedly the Un-Australian Newspaper claimed he also attended training camps before his six-month stay in Sydney.
Police have not alleged Mr Ul-Haque knew Brigitte. The Un-Australian zionists just mentioned it because they are, 'you guessed it' up John Howard's butt and they, like the USA want, 'you guessed it,' our Federal Government. Well Yankee go home!
Mr Ul-Haque allegedly told investigators before his arrest that the three-week camp was "the first step in the ladder" and simply gave members of the Pakistani community a taste of jihad as part of their religion.
Self defence against oppression?
"It's like kindergarten," Mr Ul-Haque allegedly told investigators, the court heard.
Sounds like self-defence training? Well if you have to live or go to Pakistan perhaps.
Lawyers for Mr Ul-Haque yesterday applied for bail for the medical student, who is held in solitary confinement in a maximum-security jail. Where incidentally you don't get medical treatment on call. For self-harm? Caused by the conditions prisoners will be housed in at the HARM-U. Goulburn's Guantanamo bay.
Doctor Ron Woodham I presume?
"The Commissioner has ultimate responsibility for prisoners welfare and for security. The Commissioner has the right to decide that security overrides all other issues, [including medical?], but in doing so takes the responsibility for any adverse clinical outcomes where Corrections Health Service advice has been overridden."
Dictatorship under the Crimes Act?
[War criminal], Attorney General Phillip Ruddock said yesterday under the Crimes Act Izhar Ul Haque committed a crime.
[But he means under the Draconian Law Act they just made up?]
In any case the real crime was preventing 21-year-old young man decide for himself what is wrong and what is right. What a disgrace! Under the heading further education.
The criminal Federal Government has applauded the work of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) after an arrest of a man accused of training with a terrorist organisation. [Just plain rubbish and propaganda initiated by Draconian Laws.]
Why would you applaud them? Ul Haque was profiled and nailed to the wall before he could even get a grip on his wisdom.
The Un Australian: The court heard Mr Ul-Haque had been frustrated at failing his second year of medicine at the University of NSW, as well as unhappy experiences with patients during his training in Sydney hospitals.
"The Western patients in hospitals look at me as though I'm a frog," he says in one letter, the court was told.
He travelled to Pakistan, where his parents now live, before joining the camp. After reading his letter, his father and his brother went to the camp to try to convince him to return to Australia.
Deciding against the combat lifestyle, he returned to Sydney to resume his studies.
Counsel for Mr Ul-Haque, Ian Barker QC, said the student, now in his fourth year of medicine, was being held for political reasons and likened his detention to "our own version of Guantanamo Bay".
A former high school principal described Mr Ul-Haque as an extremely bright, co-operative and courteous student. Friends gave evidence on his behalf, and 130 UNSW students signed a petition supporting his release.
His two brothers, both accountants in Sydney, told the court they would care for Mr Ul-Haque if released.
Bail was refused, with the magistrate citing the seriousness of the charge and saying Mr Ul-Haque could try to leave the country.
Prosecutor Desmond Fagan SC said the case against Mr Ul-Haque was strong, given his admission during police interviews that he trained in the LET camp at Aqsa near the town of Muzaffarabad in January.
LET is involved in a violent struggle with Indian forces for the liberation of Kashmir. The Howard Government banned LET eight months after Mr Ul-Haque trained with them."
TO THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT!
STOP THE VIOLENCE AND THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS NOW!
YOUR WAR ON LIBERTY IS ABHORANT, IGNORANT AND APPAULING!
At this time all mail has been stopped from entering or leaving the High Risk Management Unit at Goulburn where Mr Ul-Haque and more than 70 other prisoners are being held.
Govt rejects Ul-Haque's family 'political scapegoat' claims
On Friday (the day Mr Ul-Haque was arrested) I was contacted by a prisoner at the HRMU who told me that he was just informed that all outgoing and incoming mail will be stopped under the heading *Now we have terrorists and that validates Cruel and Unusual Treatment or Punishment. *
If the idea that now we have alleged *terrorists* housed at the HRMU and now collectively all the prisoners housed there including the alleged terrorists will not receive or send mail at all then how do the prisoners including the alleged terrorists tell people who care what difficulties they are faced with?
Especially when the prisoners are self-harming and no one not even a Legal Aid Lawyer can get in to represent them. These prisoners are being denied their right to legal assistance; their right to give instructions, their right to waive their privacy in order to get and receive community support.
These are extremely urgent matters that involve fundamental human rights of communication, which we complain about for ourselves and for all those concerned. Prisoners at the HRMU are the most vulnerable in the State and need continuous access to assistance without any blockage or even perception of blockage.
High Risk Management causes mental illness and self-harm and you should be very alert and alarmed and if you see Alexander Downer approach him and tell him he is armed and very very dangerous. Sending people especially young people to the HRMU is very dangerous to their mental health screw the politics of fear.
Conditions in the HRMU
Justice Action is trying to obtain documents on behalf of prisoners held in the Goulburn High Risk Management Unit (HRMU) from the Federal Attorney General's Department, Corrective Services Minister's Conference regarding the process described below, in which the Standard Guidelines for Corrections in Australia were adopted. This documentation will help explain the justification for the conditions in the HRMU.
After receiving complaints from several prisoners regarding the air and light conditions inside the cells, we compiled some research into the Standard Guidelines for Corrections in Australia (SGCA). It is clear from our research that, in the adoption of the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (UN SMR's) to the Australian context, the "Rules" changed to "Guidelines" and the substance of the material changed significantly. These changes relate directly to the conditions in the HRMU which appear to breach the UN SMR's and partially the SGCA.
Now that medical ethics at the HARM-U have been grossly degraded by the HCCC and the NSW Ombudsman and communication ethics have been grossly degraded by the NSW Ombudsman and the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission these Prisoners are in real trouble and need your support. The above agencies have turned their back on human dignity in the face of all Australians who care about each other and the personal dignity that comes from being human. How ethical is it to deprive people of human standards. Why do we pay government agencies our taxes to turn their back on the truth and what they say they stand for?
You can help! Approach or write to the NSW Prisons Minister hastistergos and the federal attorney general phillip ruddock (all in lower case) because these people have breached ethical standards. When you do approach them or write to them please inform them that they are armed and dangerous and should be open, honest, transparent and accountable to the community if what they say they're doing is right.
What have they got to hide? Plenty!
" I am freezing and starving" " I am hot and starving" " I cannot breathe fresh air" " I cannot tell you how it is for me" "I feel claustrophobic" "I can see fresh air but I cannot touch it" "I have no constructive lifestyle" "it takes 6 months to see a doctor" "corrective services override my medical treatment" " my legal material is taken away" "I am banging my head on the wall" "I slammed my hand in the door" "I cannot communicate with you now".
These are all symptoms of people being forced to survive below the survival level. If there is no money for public hospitals then the prison is ten times worse. If the Federal government is sending people into these places they have a duty of care to deal with the overcrowding and put money in to restore human rights and dignity. If they are treating these people like this intentionally then they themselves should be put into Mr-Ul-Haque's cell and he released.
Those who the government has suspicion about and who have been sent to this place will be caused serious mental illness and are changing the culture for the rest of the NSW prisoners (lifers) who have to remain in the HRMU until they die regardless of howards politics of fear and the Federal Election.
HREOC should stop denying that Federal prisoner's don't exist in these places and do something constructive about it. Please write to them and tell them they are the most useless agency Australian people have to rely on for Human Rights because every time there is a breach of human rights they claim their Federal Act is only able to deal with Federal matters.
When in all accounts most people directly effected are held in State institutions and the fact that HREOC still don't help anyone in Federal jurisdictions nine times out of ten because they have a QC at the desk who tells you in so many ways why they cannot help you. HREOC is an illusion.
What State institution deals with STATE HUMAN RIGHTS? ZIP! Where do you live? Within a State or Territory! Not within a "Federal State or Territory".
The point I make is! Is this low life howard worth it? Write to this man or approach him and tell him he is armed and dangerous. We have no protection unless he is voted out by the margin of affected people in column "B". How much human suffering do we have to put up with until there is an overwhelming majority of imprisoned or mentally ill and sick people in this country to vote this loser out of the community in which he does not live?
By Just Us 30 April 04
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Protest Against the Incarceration of Izhar Ul Haque
Izhar is one of the new victims of Australia's draconian civil liberties deprivation laws. He has been accused of visiting a group that was not proscribed until ten months after Izhar's alleged visit.
Brain injury for suspicion 'inhumane'
Faheem Khalid Lodhi refused bail by a Sydney court and remanded until June in hell at the (HARM-U) High Risk Management Unit at Goulburn. While he is in there he will receive a brain injury and is likely to self-harm due to the gross violation of living standards.
Terror force has chip on its shoulder?
Ron Woodham the prisons bum boy commissioner creates the problem (Noble Cause Corruption for Bob Carr) by framing a prisoner, then seeks a reaction from the community for the false flag operation, then finds the solution that the government wanted to implement in the first place.
QLD Politician (Community Safety?) Amendment Bill 2004
NEW LAWS: A picture of the [false flag] Madrid killer bombings was used to introduce a terror Bill so that we are so fearful we will accept it as being appropriate behaviour by the authorities and law enforcement. [So where is our protection against a corrupt government and complicit corporate media organisations?]
Govt rejects ul-Haque's family 'political scapegoat' claims
The Federal Government has rejected as unfounded, claims that it is making a political scapegoat out of a Sydney man arrested on terrorism charges.
Dictatorship under the crimes Act?
[War criminal], Attorney General Phillip Ruddock said yesterday under the Crimes Act Izhar Ul Haque committed a crime. But the real crime was preventing a 21-year-old young man decide for himself what is wrong and what is right. What a disgrace! Under the heading, further education.
SMH: Standing up for liberties?
When a federal Labor Opposition indicates it is prepared to agree to future government legislation even before its detailed content is known, alarm bells should ring.
Keelty foresees more terrorism
Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty, [guilty], says terrorist groups, [scapegoats and patsies for the Coalition of the Killing's resource war's in the Middle East], will continue to find new ways to threaten countries.
Daily Telegraph rolled-over for Howard's war games
Given the source appears to be the Daily Terror this time, the next thing you'll be told is that Brigitte intended to have lunch with Bin Laden on the lawn at Parliament House Canberra, probably written in the Un-Australian next week after the war games.
Should Howard be detained indefinitely?
Australian mock, convicted terrorist and, [war criminal], John Howard is seriously considering appealing the precise time limit on detaining terrorist suspects,[scapegoats for the Coalition of the Killing's resource war's in the Middle East.]
Counter-terrorism-fear-mongering, propaganda exercise to test several states For the first time, Australia is about to test its ability to respond to terrorism threats and acts, [fear-mongering, propaganda for the Coalition of the Killing's resource wars in the Middle East], in several states simultaneously.
'FACTOPHOBIA' HOWARD, BLAIR AND BUSH
Well think about this! Australia's intelligence agencies, [fear mongering, propaganda agencies], look set to receive a substantial funding boost in this year's Federal Budget, with the Prime Minister saying it is an obvious step to take.
HoWARd, where's your head at?
Australians is living on the edge! Seems each time the bombs go off overseas for the Coalition of the Killing's resource war's in the Middle East Australians are living on the edge.
Australia: National Insecurity Anthem
Australians all let us give voice. For we are free no more. We've lost the right to liberty. In Uncle Howard's war. From high school kids. To journalists. You'll be in custody. If someone you know, give ASIO. A little insecurity.
Howard gov't and media talks up terror
First it was the Lucas Height nuclear reactor Willie Brigitte was alleged to have been planing to blow up. ASIO alleged to have found some type of map as evidence late last year.
Australian corporate media? Brigitte allegations?
A plot to attack the Lucas Heights Nuclear Reactor and blow up the Daily Telegraph Newspaper building is alleged to have been the reason Willie Brigitte was deported back to France. Believe it or not?
Brigitte release 'imminent for lack of evidence': lawyer
Lawyers for deported terror suspect, [scapegoat for the Coalition of the Killings resource war in the Middle East], Willie Brigitte expect he may be released shortly by French authorities due to a lack of evidence.
Dying to get to the Opera? Or the Hospital?
There is to be increased funding for security at the Sydney Opera House while people are dying trying to get into a hospital bed. In NSW you have more chance of being shot in the street so the priority should be hospitals not Opera Houses.
Absence of faith in the Australian Gov't
A Sydney-based former baggage handler and his brother have been found guilty in Lebanon's 'military court' of helping to fund a terrorist network linked to Al Qaeda.
Did 'Jihad Jack' train at GI boot camp?
Parody: Jack Thomas, the Melbourne man allegedly linked to, [US demon], al-Qa'ida, [keywords: links, plots, cells, training camps, boot camps, terrorists, jihad, al-Qa'ida], through a friend of a friend of a friend, who had known about al-Qa'ida being investigated by police.
Man on first terror charge not first alleged terrorist
Zak Mallah of Condell Park was arrested overnight when federal and NSW police slipped on a banana skin into a western Sydney reserve and then raided his home.
Big Bang Theory, ASIO
The most significant threat to Australia is Prime Minister John Howard. Howard has lied to the Australian people constantly. Slaughtered the international rule of law by preventive strikes on Iraq, rigorously changed laws to deter asylum seekers, locked up children of asylum seekers, and undermined the political process by jailing Pauline Hanson, political prisoner of the year.
Sydney man terrorised by the NSW Police Force
Senior New South Wales police say s charges have been laid against a man in Sydney. Police say a 20-year-old has been charged with committing an action in preparation for a terrorist attack.
ASIO bill expected to pass Senate
The war criminal, Federal Attorney-General has defended proposed new ASIO, [an Australian terrorist organisation], powers which would limit the media's ability to report on terrorist investigations, [scapegoat investigations.]
Australian Corruption: Absence in Absentia
Two Sydney brothers illegally sentenced in Lebanon to 10 years' hard labour could cancel extradition, despite the fascist dictator John Howard declaring Australia is ready to extradite them.
Lawyer said Govt made Brigitte a scapegoat
The lawyer for French terrorism suspect, [scapegoat for the Coalition of the Killing's resource war's in the Middle East], Willie Brigitte says his client was not planning an attack in Australia.
Brigitte planned to blow up the Daily Terror
In bright red letters with an X marks the spot it appeared to be right under Campbell Reid's office.
Meet Melanie Brown the Sydney woman who married the Daily Terror? Meet Melanie Brown, the Sydney woman who wed Willie Brigitte -- the tourist, [and now scapegoat for the Coalition of the Killing's resource war's in the Middle East], accused of helping mastermind a terrorist attack in Australia, according to ASIO [an Australian government terrorist organisation], and the DAILY TERROR.
Daily Telegraph: Wife had a key role in war
Brigitte's wife it had been alleged by the Daily Terror, [and obviously the Australian government], to have been earmarked for bigger things in the war against terror, [The Coalition of the Killing's resource war's in the Middle East], which is also a war on liberty here at home.
How the Daily Telegraph seduced an Aussie public!
GKCNN can today reveal details of the brazen attempt by another dangerous terrorist newspaper. The Daily Telegraph blends into the Australian community and targets an impressionable public. Along side other corporate media organisations like the Un-Australian Newspaper, used by the Howard Government for propaganda purposes.
An Un-Australian News Pill pushes polls after raising fears
The Un-Australian newspaper is now pushing its own news poll agenda after raising terror fears for the last fortnight. Questions are being asked this morning about what stake the newspaper has in the Australian Government's fear campaign?
ASIO: No responsibility!
Blick: "Because these searches are carried out with the cooperation of police forces, both AFP [Australian Federal Police] and state police, it's not always entirely clear which members of the team ... are those supposed to have done the things which people complain about," he said.
A STRUGGLE ON TWO FRONTS: PRISONS & IMPERIALIST WAR
After a war waged by the U.S. military against Vietnam which took the lives of more than 3 million Vietnamese people and more than 58,000 GIs, the U.S. finally withdrew in 1975. It had suffered its first official major military defeat by a united people struggle led by the Vietnamese, along with a mass U.S. anti-war movement.
Australian fascist laws ready as scapegoat talks
ASIO [state terrorists], could use its special draconian powers for the first time in coming days as security forces [state terrorists] step up their investigation of French terror suspect [scapegoat], Willie Brigitte.
Fascist wants more power for ASIO
[War criminal] Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock wants to strengthen Australia's terrorism laws, [scapegoat laws], to make it easier for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) [state terrorists] to hold and question suspects [scapegoats and patsies], without any evidence for three years and ban organisations.
THE DAILY TERROR and ASIO in Fairyland!
ASIO agents [how could anyone believe them?] and analysts from the NSW Police counter terrorism [counter scapegoat] co-ordination command [Noble Cause Corruption Unit], are reviewing a list of names deported Brigitte gave them as his contacts in Australia.
Mahathir offers to go out with a bang
"Report the truth even if it is bad. Don't be a spin doctor, don't distort news, don't have your own agenda," he said.Dr Mahathir has claimed repeatedly that his remark at an Islamic summit in mid-October that Jews rule the world was taken out of context.
US to keep military ties with Indonesia
But America, East Timor, Bali, and Australian complicity have something in common with the 'Indonesian armed forces' and the fallout was the TNI's East Timor's massacre in 1999 and the CIA's false flag, call to arms Bali bombing in 2002, believe it or not.
The Daily Propaganda: Bali bombings could have been worse?
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner, Mick Keelty, says the bombs that killed 88 Australians in Bali could have done a lot more damage if they had been built differently.
NSW Terrorist Minister leads the way
New South Wales is hosting a two-day conference of state and territory prisons ministers on how to detain terrorists [scapegoats for the Coalition of the Killing's resource war's in the Middle East.]
Australia: Hamas support group investigations
The Australian Federal Police and ASIO [state terrorists] are believed to be investigating support groups in Australia, specifically support groups operating out of Western Australia.
Signs of the Times: Aggressive Scepticism
If anyone has known a schizophrenic then you may also know that it is because of some sound or picture that invaded their thoughts which sent them mad. So possibly, any invasion of my time with self, a time to integrate past experiences could send someone mad. However if there is no interference with our own thoughts and ideas we sometimes choose to write down our conclusions and share our ideas with others socially.
Civil Liabilities: Howard's diversity? I had a dream?
The war criminal, Prime Minister, John Howard, who only yesterday was claiming he was showing diversity has stepped up pressure on the states to support plans to increase the war criminal, Federal Attorney-General's powers to ban terrorist organisations, [scapegoats and patsies for the Coalition of the Killing's illegal and degrading resource wars in the Middle East.]
Keep the bastards honest: Publicity keeps an eye on ethics?
The Australian Federal Police commissioner says investigations into terrorist links [scapegoat and patsy links] to Australia are being made more difficult by public debate about the progress of inquiries.
Howard, Ellison, Williams, Australian terrorists, Muslim bashing! Brothers sacrificed! [War criminal], Attorney-General Daryl Williams said the Australian Federal Police and ASIO, [Australian state-terrorists], had been in contact with Lebanese authorities over the Khazal brothers. "The Australian authorities are well aware of the fact that a warrant was issued for the arrest of Mr Khazal and his brother in June," [war criminal], Williams said yesterday.
Qantas handler handcuffed to al-Qa'ida
War criminal, Attorney-General Daryl Williams who? Daryl Williams who? Oh you mean that Daryl Williams, would you believe him? You say he what? Confirmed last night the Government was aware of claims that Sydney man Bilal Khazal and Melbourne cleric Sheikh Mohammed Omran were linked to an al-Qa'ida detainee known as Abu Dahdah.
Islamic movement denies links to Al Qaeda
The Islamic Youth Movement has denied having any links to Al Qaeda and says it is considering legal action against the Four Corners [Walls] program. In a statement released early this morning, the group rejects allegations it is helping coordinate any kind of terrorist network inside Australia and says it is being unfairly targeted.
Former Qantas worker denies Al Qaeda link
Four Corners [Walls] has [allegedly] cited a CIA document alleging Bilal Khazal was not only an Al Qaeda operative but was planning attacks on US interests in Venezuela and the Philippines, but Mr Khazal has denied the claims.
Woman linked to Four Corners worked at Sydney Airport: JI
Parody: New airport security concerns have been raised by reports that a woman believed by JI to be associated with Four Corners worked as a baggage handler at Sydney's international terminal.
Evidence emerges of proposed Four Corners base in Bali
Parody: More evidence has emerged that the ABC terrorist network believed to have been behind the propaganda in Australia has tried to set up a long-term base in Bali.
Australian Terror cell here long before Bali
The Australian terrorist Captain Cook infiltrated Australia years before the Bali bombings in which 202 people perished. Aboriginal people attempted to remember Captain Cook not as a founding father but as a harbinger of dispossession and death, a sign of white amnesia. Another anniversary year-used to mark two hundred years since Cook had journeyed along the east coast of Australia and, for some people, discovered a continent.
NSW police confirm don't use the phone to talk about terrorism!
The New South Wales Police Service has confirmed it is using phone taps and other forms of electronic surveillance to monitor suspected terrorist activity [ ? To monitor potential scapegoats for the Coalition of the Killing's illegal and degrading resource wars in the Middle East.]
Australia: Terrorising you in secret
Suspected terrorists [scapegoats and patsies for the Coalition of the Killing's resource wars in the Middle East] will be tried in secret under new laws to be introduced by the Federal Government.
NSW Police Force may get 'special powers'
Civil libertarians are questioning the need for further anti-terrorism laws, which will be announced in the New South Wales Parliament on Tuesday.
Evidence that Howard was complicit in CIA, false flag, call to arms, Bali bombings War criminal John Howard was complicit in the call to arms - false flag operation - Bali bombings - instigated by the CIA - and the Coalition of the Killing - to bolster support - and quell dissent for their illegal and degrading resource wars in the Middle East.
War criminal Howard high-jacks HRCA to 'legitimise killing'
The Human Rights Council of Australia (HRCA) says it fears Prime Minister John Howard's comments in support of the execution of [CIA operative] Osama bin Laden show his eagerness to overturn three decades of national opposition to the death penalty.
State terror units caused the terror!
The level of suspicion and surveillance created by the [US false flag operation and call to arms] Bali bombings, created by [ the Coalition of the Killing and Australian's complicity to go to war on Iraq] means that all Australian's suffer the loss of their human rights, civil rights and their democratic rights, as well as those Australian's who lost their life in Bali.
Al-Qa'ida or poor people without hope?
Anyone contemplating war without a UN sanction is nothing more than a common criminal and not acting in accordance with the law. Isn't Richardson the head of ASIO? A law enforcement agency? Al-Qa'ida is a Coalition of the Killing demon made up by the CIA. These people are just scapegoats, patsies, and peasants."
Red paper classes Australia as terrorist suspects
Australia's old foreign policy red paper says Australians have become targets because their own government is being run by war criminals that are complicit in state terror, torture, murder, occupation and genocide.
Australia backs CIA Reichstag, Downer's propaganda
The Foreign Affairs Minister says the latest message from Osama bin Laden is worrying. [Just plain rubbish!]
UK Reid, Blair and the reichstag London threat!
The nature of the [alleged] terrorist threat to London is on the scale of the [USA false flag] September 11 attacks in the United States, the chairman of Britain's governing Labour Party said.
Bin Laden calls? CIA blind man's bluff!
A [US propaganda, fear-mongering] taped message purportedly from Osama bin Laden has warned Arab nations against supporting a war against Iraq but has branded Saddam Hussein an infidel.
Middle Eastern: Specific Legislation
"If there is a target person the police would have powers in relation to that type of person," Mr Costa said. Asked what he meant by "type of person", Mr Costa said: "The example that's been given is if there's a description of somebody, an identikit photograph released by Interpol or other agencies ... these powers may well be exercised on that type of person."
Howard defends terror alert
Prime Minister John Howard says the Federal Government would not have issued a terror alert if it had not come from a credible source. (America?) Speaking for the first time since the Government revealed the warning, Mr Howard says he wants people to be more careful, but not to stop living. [As long as they don't go dancing in Bali? And sure we'll all be depressed for as long as John Howard and Bob Carr say so.]
Carr backs Fed Govt's terror alert
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr has defended the Federal Government's decision to issue a warning to Australians about a possible terrorist attack in Australia.
NSW Police Force may get 'special powers'
Civil libertarians are questioning the need for further anti-terrorism laws, which will be announced in the New South Wales Parliament on Tuesday.
When Johnny comes marching home again: 'hoorah hoorah'
Posted on the Resistance web page Bronwyn Powell, an organiser of the youth-led mobilisation told Green Left weekly that "in the face of attacks on civil liberties, it is unfortunate that some union officials have felt they need to submit. It could set a negative precedent for upholding the hard-won right to demonstrate in the street."
Give peace a chance
PIERS AKERMAN DT 28 Nov 02: JUSTICE John Dowd should be removed from the bench. His crime? Stupidity. In a breath-taking display of hand-wringing sanctimonious morality, Dowd has condemned the State and Federal Governments' anti-terrorism measures, claiming they erode rights and give encouragement to oppressive regimes.
The scavengers of terror
The NSW Government is to introduce increased police powers bill. Legislation giving New South Wales police special powers to deal with an emergency terrorist situation [emergency scapegoat situation] will be introduced into the New South Wales Parliament today.
