ASIO knows the names of the ex Yugoslav intelligence (UDBa) officers & informers. There is no need for me to be giving it the information which it already has. Ive named a few already on my blog. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. ASIO has blocked access to some more documents. This is ironic since Yugoslavia no longer exists.

If you make the all the names public you take away their "value" for future terrorists. As for targeting a particular religion or ethnicity, that was not the purpose of my article.. I've made that quite explicit. It's about combating extremism. If you've read my previous work you will understand that I warn about Muslim men being targeted unfairly by ASIO. See my online opinion story: Can we trust ASIO?

As for the Croatian Six case, ASIO really bungled this one back in 1979-80. Six innocent men were set up as terrorists by an agent provocateur from UDBa. Therefore It stands to reason that a terror franchise could utilise the skills of these ex Yugoslav spies by bribery or bulling. Developments in Bosnia 1994-95 have shown us this (see Dr John Schindler's work)

Cheers
Sasha Uzunov

Sasha,

I got your point about the damage hate speech, stereotyping, media beat-ups and ethnic 'targeting' can do; and that ASIO can be mislead or manipulated. However, it is necessary to appreciate the base cause of fear and uncertainty, and the stereotyping this can generate, and not simply focus on the 'symptoms'. Overseas reactions demonstrate genuine hatred by various Muslim groups towards the US and all of its allies, and it is the intensity and the foundations of such hatred that needs to be urgently addressed. This hatred also appears to extend to groups/people of different ethnicity or religious beliefs - orthodox, Sunni vs Shia, etc. It must stop - reasoning, diplomacy and compromise, or the sword? But, the sword will never resolve the underlying causation, but can only extend and exacerbate.

If you have one person or a small group propagating hatred, that is one thing, but when you have virtually a mass class of population doing the same, and apparently based on religious sensitivities, you are faced with an epidemic. Excision is not practical. The foundation of the 'cancer' has to be identified and either irradiated out of existence or rendered impotent by altering the faulty brain wiring which is perpetuating the disease - the disease of placing ideas, beliefs or delusions above plain and simple morality.

>"It's about combating extremism."<

Ignoring a problem of incompatibility will not make it go away, it has to be addressed head-on and resolved. All else is futility.