Posted on 09/16/2006 12:04:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
FEDERAL police commissioner Mick Keelty has urged people to back off Muslims, insisting Islamic Australia is not to blame for terrorism.
In a revealing interview with The Weekend Australian, Mr Keelty said racial profiling was self-defeating because it risked alienating mainstream Muslims while ignoring the real danger of homegrown non-Muslim terror.
"I remind people that the firstperson who was convicted of a terrorist offence in Australia was a person with the unlikely name of Jack Roche," the police chief said.
And Mr Keelty said he did not like the phrase "the war on terror", because it did not apply in Australia.
"Unless people understand what is happening here, we
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"Down Under" ping!
Time for Keelty to look for a new career.
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In a revealing interview with The Weekend Australian, Mr Keelty said racial profiling was self-defeating because it risked alienating mainstream Muslims while ignoring the real danger of homegrown non-Muslim terror."
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The title: "War on Terror." Applies everywhere on planet earth, and Muslims are the cause of terrorism.
If fools such as this don't soon pull their heads out of the sand, they will discover when they do, that there is no body atttached to their stupid heads!
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Bali Nine alleged drug traffickers set up for execution by Australian police By Rick Kelly 31 October 2005 Use this version to print | Send this link by email | Email the author
Prosecution evidence put forward at trials of the Bali Nine currently underway in Bali, Indonesia, establishes that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) engaged in a calculated operation to set up the young Australians for execution by firing squad. The police provided Indonesian authorities with detailed information about the alleged drug smugglers activities, and encouraged their arrest in Indonesia, despite knowing that this would almost certainly lead to the subsequent imposition of the death penalty.
The AFP has faced mounting scrutiny over its role in the Bali Nine affair. The agencys cooperation with the Indonesian police has directly contravened the spirit of the mutual assistance treaty enacted by Canberra and Jakarta in 1999, which was widely believed to prevent Australian authorities from facilitating the execution of its own citizens. Capital punishment is illegal within Australia, and under the 1988 Extradition Act, the attorney-general cannot authorise the extradition of an Australian national if the death penalty may be imposed.
The accused were all arrested on April 17, 2005. Four of the group (Renae Lawrence, Martin Stephens, Michael Czugaj, and Scott Rush) were caught at Balis Denpasar airport acting as couriers, or mules. A total of more than eight kilograms of heroin was found strapped to their bodies. Four others (Tach Duc Thanh Nguyen, Myuran Sukumaran, Si Yi Chen, and Matthew Norman) allegedly connected to the operation were arrested at a Kuta hotel. The alleged organiser, Andrew Chan, was arrested without drugs after boarding a plane bound for Sydney. The accused are aged between 18 and 29.
According to a senior Indonesian prosecutor, Australian police made informal contact with their Indonesian counterparts in late March, almost a month before the nine arrests. On April 8, Paul Hunniford, the AFPs liaison officer in Bali wrote a three-page letter to the Indonesian police, headed, Heroin couriers from Bali to Australia, currently in Bali. Another note was sent on April 12. The letters provided an extraordinary level of detail of the alleged drug traffickers movements and plans. The AFP also provided the Indonesian authorities with the passport numbers and photographs of eight of the accused.
They will be carrying body packs (with white powder) back to Australia, with packs on both legs and also with back supports, one section of the initial letter read. They have already been given the back supports. The packs will be strapped to their bodies. They will be given money to exchange for local currency to purchase oversized loose shirts and sandals. The AFP officer even knew that the alleged couriers would avoid wearing clothes with any metal attachments so as to avoid tripping airport metal detectors, and that they had been advised to quit smoking two weeks prior to the operation in order not to appear anxious after disembarking from their plane in Australia.
Rather than waiting for the suspects to enter Australia where they could be arrested and tried by Australian authorities, the AFP encouraged their arrest in Indonesia. If you suspect [Andrew] Chan and/or the couriers are carrying drugs at the time of their departure, please take whatever action you deem necessary, Hunniford wrote to the Indonesian police. He also suggested that the Indonesians take surveillance photographs of the alleged drug smugglers to later assist the prosecution. The AFP officer subsequently observed the Australians arrest at Denpasar airport.
Even before the release of the correspondence between the Australian and Indonesian police, the AFP was facing legal action over its role in the Bali Nine affair. The families of two of the accusedScott Rush and Renae Lawrencehave alleged denial of procedural fairness, on the grounds that the father of one of the alleged mules, 19 year-old Rush, tipped off the AFP as to his sons activities on April 7, two days before he left Australia for Bali. The Australian police did nothing except pass the information on to the Indonesians...read more
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/oct2005/bali-o31.shtml
I agree with the Left! Mick Keelty will have blood on his hands.
He is correct on one thing: racial profiling is not a catch-all solution. As the recent arrests in the UK also show: at least three or four of the people arrested would not fit into any racial profile that could be arrived at. It can form part of an overall strategy of police work however.
Stand aside mate...It's black or white time!
FIre this a-hole.
Nobody said it was.
But it would certainly prevent attacks.
It ain't the Amish Micky boy.
Is his title and position the equivilant to America's 'Director of the FBI'?
Keelty should be sacked immediately. He's lost the plot!!!
Yep...
Well. He could have avoided saying that and just worn a sandwich board saying "I am a complete idiot...kick me..."
Yup, those Amish terrorists are scaring the hell out of people these days.
Their heads are deep, but not in the sand.
LOL!
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