Posted by Sigismund on June 14, 2007, at 2:36:04
In reply to Re: Son-In-Law back to Iraq in December for year, posted by Sigismund on June 13, 2007, at 20:50:20
I've been wondering all afternoon about what I wote.
I remember a time when it was inconceivable that an aircraft should be hijacked.
Last night on the TV there was an ex-CIA agent talking very frankly about the (accepted) torture of an Australian citizen, Mamdou Habib, rendered to Egypt for the purpose.
He said something like
'If we want a good interrogation, we send them to Jordan. If we want them tortured, we send them to Syria. If we want them killed, we send them to Egypt. Of course the Australian government knew. We told them.'
Naturally the Australian government has repeatedly denied any and all knowlege over time.
Our leaders like to talk about what kind of message we are sending, and I wonder what results the behaviour of the Australian Government will have in the future.
There is no way I can characterise our government under the civility rules here.
All of this stuff is connected.
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