The war on terror as a fishing expedition: A senior counter-terrorism officer with the Australian Federal Police has testified that police were directed to charge “as many suspects as possible” with terrorism offences in order to test the new anti-terrorism laws introduced in 2003. The admission was made by federal agent Kemuel Lam Paktsun, the…
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Ali Allawi: The attempt to refashion Iraq was doomed
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: The Iraq war has barely registered in this election campaign (except Murdoch cheerleader Andrew Bolt declaring last week that the battle has been “won”). Clearly Bolt must have missed the millions of displaced refugees both inside and outside the ravaged country during his visit to the…