Dr. Haneef and his wife during happier days in Australia
Australian prosecutors have dropped terror charges against an Indian doctor over the failed bomb attacks in the UK.
Mohamed Haneef had been accused of giving “reckless support” to terrorism by providing a relative in Britain with his mobile phone SIM card.
What?
The messy saga has prompted Peter Beattie, the premier of Queensland and member of the opposition Labour party, to characterise the investigation, and the leaking to the press that has being going on, as like something out of the Keystone Kops.
Prosecutors had claimed that the doctor’s SIM card had been found in the burning car that crashed into Glasgow international airport on 30 June.
But it later emerged the card had actually been found in a flat in Liverpool, some 300km (185 miles) from Glasgow, where his cousin lived.
He left the sim card with family when he left for Australia because there was still credit on it – and he wouldn’t be able to use it in Australia.
“”This remains an ongoing investigation,” Mr Keelty said. “It is a complex and painstaking process and the AFP will continue to work with its UK colleagues to fully explore the evidence and establish the facts.”
Dopes cant simply admit good police work means questioning/detaining/arresting those during an investigation BUT letting them go when the evidence does not connect them to the crime!
Hard to be straight forward.
Let’s face it – The system did what it was suppose to.
I don’t see an issue here.
#2 – try opening your mind and your eyes at the same time.
‘Twould appear that Australia has been taking lessons from al-Usa, their role model.
– Lying about where ‘ evidence ‘ was found –
– Basing their charges on what ‘ could have happened ‘ instead of what happened –
-Sensationalizing a normal non-threatening event –
You know, like al-Usa did in acquiring their Iraq Colony.
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I realize I run the risk of suggesting a really stupid idea to the RIAA/MPAA; but, supposed they adopted the logic of this bust?
I’ve donated old computers to local charities. So, if someone at the charity decides to illegally download content – using software they added to the computer – they still could sue me for providing at least part of the system used to commit the (possible) crime.
And understand, the case in Australia was even more tenuous – since it only involved a sim card in a cell phone.
Ok – there were issues with the evidence etc. The reality is that he was exonerated and let go. That how its suppose to work children.
The way the system is supposed to work does not include sitting around with your badge up your butt – leaking crap to the press for week upon week – when you knew 48 hours after the crime that the sim card was found in Liverpool.
That did make it to a lot of the press outside the U.S. and Oz. Just not to the fried worms that pass for brains in the Oz equivalent of Homeland Insecurity.
I am from Australia.
What really make me unhappy with the government is that it should of left this to the court and the police to carry out but for the government to cancel the working visa when the court granted him a bail is going way over the line. This was to keep him under guard.
Government using the excuse of “war on terror” is getting old long time ago. It seem to me now as power grab. Once government has a new power, they will never let if go without a fight. They will miss use the power sooner then later.
Well I hope the good man can get on with his life.
While it’s sad that the man was falsely accused, but at least he was released.
I think it shows a lot of progress from when we, in the US, threw the American-Japanese into internment camps for being Japanese or lynching Chinese for being Chinese (and we weren’t even at war with China). BTW, did they do those things in Australia as well? I heard for years the racism in Australia was so bad that Asians were forbidden to even come to Australia. True?
#8 I agree with you about the “war on terror”. It’s simply a stupid Bushism.
Terror is a military tactic, with a time-honored tradition, for example, the US in Dresden, IRA in London. It is used to wear down a civilian population’s resistance to achieve military and political objective. War on terror is like talking about the “war on carpet bombing”. It’s a non sequitur.
Bush’s inability to articulate who we are fighting, what we are fighting for and what our objectives are is the reason we’re in Iraq, going no where in Afghanistan and driving our allies crazy.