As the "case" against Dr Haneef falls down in a screaming heap we can bet that not one of the brainless thugs who do things like lock up Cornelia Rau and deport Vivian Alvarez will be brought to book for another stuff up. In fact Keelty will probably be given the ambassador ship to Paris or something for his spectacular stupidity.

It is more than clear than a young man working in Brisbane was not in a burning jeep in Glasgow and even if an expired sim card was in the jeep the young doctor still could not have committed any crime.

Three of the so-called terror group have been released without charge, Dr Sabeel has been charged with "withholding evidence" but the Orwells in London won't tell him what he withheld.

The perpetrator is near death and not expected to survive and two others unrelated to and unknown to Dr Haneef have been charged with conspiracy to make explosives.

Except they were not explosives you see. 13 gallons of petrol and a few nails on the floor of a car will not explode ever without a detonator or at least some high explosives of some sort.

howard and co don't have the manpower to do a 'national socialist' makeover of oz. but they sure have the principles firmly understood.

shortly, rudd will be pm, and discover a shocking shortfall in the number of federal police. he will also do a deal with your isp: they stay in business, he gets a copy of my keyboarding. yours, too. better get ready now:

"god bless ya, massa! rule 10,000 years, mighty rudd!"

KEELTY DENIES MISHANDLING OF HANEEF'S DIARY

The latest moral error by the AFP appears to be annotating Haneef's diary apparently to entrap him or at least rattle him.

Article in today's Australian http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22118165-5001561,00.html:

"...The Australian today reported police had written the names of overseas terror suspects in Haneef's personal diary before asking the Indian doctor during an interview if he had written the potentially incriminating notes himself...

The Australian today reported excerpts (sic) of the first interview between Dr Haneef and two officers from the AFP's counter-terrorism force, Queensland Detective Sergeant Adam Simms and federal agent Neil Thompson.

Towards the end of the interview, which occurred soon after Dr Haneef was arrested at Brisbane International Airport on July 2 for allegedly providing support to a terrorist organisation, Sergeant Simms states: "In your diary, you had handwritten notes. Is this your writing?"

Dr Haneef replies: "No. This is not my writing. Definitely not."

After suspending the interview, the officers returned to the question of the handwritten notes, including the name and contact details of suicide bomber Kafeel Ahmed, a second-cousin of Dr Haneef.

Sergeant Simms states: "Now, as I was alluding to, or as I was going to show you, before ... police who have been looking through your diary have found some handwritten notes in the back of your diary. And one of these handwritten notes is details for Kafeel Ahmed. Telephone numbers and looks like an address. A couple of addresses. Now, that writing there, is that your writing?"

When Dr Haneef again denies it is his writing, Sergeant Simms leaves the room. He returns and says: "Thought that might have been the case. In fact, it's not. This is what's been written by police. So it's not your handwriting at all."

Haneef must have been relieved that police admitted they'd just tried to set him up...

If the police want to run a deniable covert action campaign they have to think big. Just ask the Saudis http://spyingbadthings.blogspot.com/2007/07/saudis-unsung-suicide-bombers-in-iraq.html

Pete

This kind of antagonistic article is nothing more than a bug light for lefty bimbos.

If it wasn't for the real harm that's been done to various people the Howard government's efforts at whistles and wedges this year would be highly amusing.

Shock and awe, people. We're taking over water.
How're you going to do that?
Well, it's a really important plan and carefully thought out and, oh forget it.

Shock and awe, people. We're saving the little aborigines.
How're you going to do that?
Well, the police and the army will fix everything because we've worked out how it's all going to happen and, oh forget it.

Shock and awe, people. We got ourselves a real live terrorist.
What'd he do?
Well, he had this SIM card and this really funny look about him, kind of foreign-like, and, oh forget it.

Next.

Thank you OLO for inviting Marilyn to add her comments. Marilyn is the OLO resident shotfirer and she doubles as lead detective. The only people who didn't get a mention in her post are the Bhaktiaris.