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FEDERAL authorities have drawn up secret contingency plans to ensure Australia's most wanted man, Tony Mokbel, is returned to Melbourne safely. The officers, from the federal and Victorian police, will not try to interview Mokbel on his long journey home as their sole mission is to bring him back...
GUANTANAMO Bay would have been short on laughs, explaining why David Hicks had some catching up to do this week. While he was jailed as a real foot soldier for terror, he apparently saw the funny side of The Chaser's War On Everything stage show, chugging beer beside his devoted dad Terry in...
FEDERAL authorities have drawn up secret contingency plans to ensure Australia's most wanted man, Tony Mokbel, is returned to Melbourne safely. The officers, from the federal and Victorian police, will not try to interview Mokbel on his long journey home as their sole mission is to bring him back...
Five charges approved and one rejected in 9/11 show trials Charges against one of the six alleged 9/11 conspirators in the US military commissions system at Guantánamo Bay were rejected last week, as the five others were allowed to proceed. The five individuals will be tried under the Military...
Minister for Sport and Recreation Clayton Cosgrove has today announced three new appointments to the Sports Tribunal of New Zealand. ... “I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Alan Galbraith QC as Deputy Chairperson along with Anna Richards MNZM and Dr Lynne...
It has a wall separating the indigenous population from the occupying citizens. But it is not Palestine. It has significant natural resources that are being sold off to the highest bidder and the profits are not going to the people that need it most. ...
The saga of David Hicks, Australia’s most controversial figure in the war on terrorism, keeps on getting stranger. ... A few days ago, US Colonel Mo Davis, the former chief prosecutor at the US military commissions that handed down Hicks’ sentence, stated that the...
Colonel Moe Davis, former chief prosecutor at the US prison Guantanamo Bay, has finally told the world that David Hicks was never a serious terror threat and that his pursuit was politically driven. Davis has also now said that evidence was obtained through prisoner abuse.
Lawyers acting on behalf of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident in Guantánamo, who was rendered to torture in Morocco and in a CIA prison in Afghanistan, have sued the British government for refusing to provide evidence that may assist in his defence at Guantánamo. Andy Worthington, author of “The...
The message travels among Guantanamo detainees in whispers between recreation areas and shouts through slots in cell doors: Don't trust the Americans. Boycott. ... GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The message travels among Guantanamo detainees in whispers between...
