Quote:Part of the material supplied to the Minister protected under a 503A referred to a chat room conversation between Haneef and his brother Shuaib in India on 2 July. Obviously Shuaib was also a cousin of the Ahmed brothers. In the conversation, Shuiab informed Haneef "that nothing has been found out about you" and asked when he would be getting out. Haneef replied "today". Shuaib asked whether he had permission from his hospital to leave and what he told the hospital to take leave. Haneef said that he had told them that his baby was born in an emergency caesarean. Shuaib said "tell them you have to as you have a daughter born, do not tell them anything else". Shuaib then told Haneef not to delay his departure and not to let anyone else use his number in Australia or give it to anyone. He added that "Aunty told that brother Kafeel used it; he is in some sort of project over there" and that "that disturbance (incident) which happened, it happened like this, Kafeel told that he will come and fix everything up". Shauib also said that there was no contact with Kafeel. The protected material concluded with the following paragraphs...
Re- the Haneef matter, I generally go with my gut feeling on these matters, and it's my heartfelt belief that whilst he may not have been intrinsically involved in acts of terrorism as such, I do believe he was in some way implicated, perhaps even financing others who were this or assisting them in some way. Served as some sort of facilitator,knowingly assisting others to engage in terror related acts.
Just because he's been pardoned under this particular government, isn't to say he's entirely innocent of involvement ..if only by mere association.
There have been plenty of cases here in Australia whereby police and our government intrinsically know an individual is involved though due to political reasons and a number of loop-holes in our flawed legal system that for some reason or another appears to serve our more devious crooks well, they manage to squirm free particularly if they are financial and in a position to appeal time and time again.
I wonder if He would be prepared to volunteer for a lie-detector test back home in India...I for one would volunteer myself for such a test if I were accused of such a terrible crime, this and knew I was innocent of all associated charges.
Ok, polygraphs aren't yet admissible in Australian courts, but they are often used to lend credibility to the accused in other nations, one being India if the defendant requests one...this and are used routinely in a number of states in the US for sex offenders, and for military purposes.
The UK will soon allow compulsory polygraph tests for convicted sex offenders released on license, and I think it's time we did too.
I believe the case was bungled beyond comprehension, rendering our charges against this 'specific' suspect pointless, beyond all doubt.
I also believe Labor knows he's involved, this and for political reasons is letting it go for their own political advantage.
They want to hope he doesn't get cocky and do something that may compromise their own verdict on this matter, because it's my feeling, he will do just that...in a round-about-way...and what a statement that would be to have been found guilty by a western nation, then after serving time to have finally been found innocent and awarded compensation, only to have inadvertently funnelled this very compensation pay-out into one final act of defiance.
I think they had it right the first time, this and think they might figure this out soon enough.
Whether or not we will learn of it if he does is another thing again, as it would be highly embarrassing for an outgoing government to be seen as quite literally cashing-up terrorists for political favouritism, to be seen as the 'kinder' more 'tolerant' party of the two.
Just my opinion, I may be wrong, just my gut tells me he was involved in some way ... however small the roll he played was.