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2004-11-22 Down Under

Government made mistake leaving Hicks, Habib overseas: "Expert"

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Posted by God Save The World 2004-11-22 3:17:53 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Article: "However, the threat of terrorism has grown very significantly especially after the US invasion of Iraq."

Sounds like wishful thinking to me. I would think that having all their men and resources diverted to Iraq would reduce the capabilities of the terrorists.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-11-22 8:37:55 AM|| [http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2004-11-22 8:37:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I used to have a lot of respect for Gunaratna, until I read this report. There is nothing we can gain from these two morons that we don't already know. Bringing them back to Australia would probably mean their release, as Australian law was lax about what they were up to back 2001.
Let them rot in whichever jurisdiction is most unfavourable to their cause.

Posted by tipper 2004-11-22 9:22:49 AM|| 2004-11-22 9:22:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Gunaratna is a SELF-STYLED expert. In reality a pompous twat whose expertise was Sri Lanka, not the Middle East.

He is no Daniel Pipes.

He has been exposed by Melbourne's Age as the charlatan he is.

He continues to be quoted as 'expert' because a) he says what the leftie media want to say (doesn't matter it's not true) and b) leftie media is lazy and needs to quote an 'expert' in stories whose name readers will accept. Get critical mass and they'll just keep quoting you.
see:

'analyse this' 20/07/2004 by Gary Hughes

It has been taken off the Age's site, but I managed to find a copy that is cut and pasted into this guys website. You need to scroll down past the playboy interview and Hughes's article appears to be pasted in full:

http://www.sangam.org/ANALYSIS/Sachi_9_12_03.htm

Posted by Anon1 2004-11-22 9:47:50 AM|| 2004-11-22 9:47:50 AM|| Front Page Top

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