http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2010/03/09/secrets-spies-and-steel-the-rio-tinto-case/
Secrets, spies and steel: the Rio Tinto Case
March 9th, 2010
Author: Peter Yuan Cai, ANU
The 2009 arrest of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu was a watershed event in the Sino-Australian relationship. Beijing’s unexpected intervention in the name of national security demonstrates not only how grave were perceptions of its disadvantage in the iron ore trade but also the murkiness of its laws regarding state secrets and the operation of the market. Determined intrusion from Beijing, especially by the Chinese intelligence services, could only happen with the blessing of top echelons of China’s political process.
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Government’s case against Harkat contains several ‘flaws’, court hears
By Andrew Duffy, Ottawa CitizenMarch 9, 2010
OTTAWA — A U.S. terrorism expert says the threat of al-Qaida “sleeper
agents” deploying to Western countries years before launching terror
attacks is overblown.
Professor Brian Williams, associate professor of Islamic history at the
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, told Federal Court that alarm
bells went off in his head when he read that Canadian officials had
accused Mohamed Harkat of being an al-Qaida sleeper agent.
Court must distinguish between jihadists, terrorists: expert
Man linked to Mohamed Harkat never swore allegiance to bin Laden,
historian says
By Andrew Duffy, The Ottawa CitizenMarch 9, 2010
A U.S. historian who specializes in the war on terror has urged the
judge in the Mohamed Harkat case to carefully distinguish between
jihadists and terrorists.
Professor Brian Williams, associate professor of Islamic History at the
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, told Federal Court there’s an
tendency to link all Muslim fighters to al-Qaeda.
“Since 9/11, al-Qaeda has lost its meaning,” he testified Monday, noting
that jihad existed long before Osama bin Laden rose to fame.
Williams was called by Harkat’s defence team to offer expert opinion
about Saudi-born jihadist, Ibn Khattab, whom the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service (CSIS) has labelled a terrorist.
CSIS has linked Harkat to what it describes as the Khattab terrorist
organization, which it says, has ties to al-Qaeda.