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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"fasgnadh" |
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07 Feb 2004 10:57:38 PM |
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The French Connection |
"The French connection"
February 8, 2004 Sunday Program, NineMSN
"It's the story John Howard can't ignore."
How the governement which beat up and lied about
boat people in Truth Overboard, scapegoating them and
branding them potential terrorists, was asleep at the
wheel when a real terrorist waltzed through our airports!
Then, after ignoring an URGENT cable from French Intelligence
for DAYS, they deported him without questioning him!
Can we have someone other than Clowns in charge of National Security?
Heads should roll, there should be an inquiry into this, and other
security failures, and the tired government who clearly are not up to
the task
should be retired to the nursing home!
"Sunday will reveal how French suspect Willie Brigitte was sent to
Australia by a Pakistani terrorist organisation and was considering
which military targets the group would attack."
Four Corners will also 'reveal it' tomorrow night..
....both of their revelations are after it was already 'revealed';
From: "fasgnadh" <fasgnadh@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: aus.politics,aus.culture.true-blue
Subject: Howard's failure of Intelligence
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 18:34:46 +1100
Message-ID: <bvvfun$1ltv$1@arachne.labyrinth.net.au>
From: "fasgnadh" <fasgnadh@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: aus.politics,aus.culture.true-blue
Subject: Would you Buy Used Intelligence from this man?
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 21:42:22 +1100
Message-ID: <bvvqug$23u0$1@arachne.labyrinth.net.au>
Sunday's Sarah Ferguson spent a month in Paris, piecing together
Brigitte's five months in Australia, with the help of French intelligence.
Under interrogation, Brigitte admitted to the French he was trained
in weapons, explosives and high-altitude endurance by the terrorist
group, Lashkar-e-Toiba. Sunday has identified Brigitte's key
contact in Australia, a man also believed to be a member of the
Pakistani terrorist organisation. And Sunday will also reveal the
French authorities warned ASIO that Brigitte might be a terrorist,
and our intelligence organisation ignored the warning for four days ...
Transcript
SARAH FERGUSON: Early in the morning of Wednesday,
May 16 last year, a man arrived at Sydney airport after the
final leg of his long trip from Paris. He was travelling under
his own name, with a new passport, that made no mention
of his trips to Pakistan. Some of his associates in France
were in prison on terrorism charges.
But Willie Brigitte had so far escaped attention.
JEAN FRANCOIS CLAIR, DEPUTY DIRECTOR,
FRENCH COUNTER INTELLIGENCE: At this time,
Brigitte was completely unknown to us, you know,
completely unknown as Brigitte.
SARAH FERGUSON: He came here to
Sydney's western suburbs. For a suspected terrorist,
his resources were meagre. He carried with him only $2000,
a tourist visa and a one-way ticket. Brigitte disappeared into
his new life here in Lakemba. ASIO admits that if it weren't
for the French investigation, he'd still be here, a chilling
thought when you consider the French authorities believe
he was no more than a month away from an attack.
With access to the French investigation, we'll reveal how
he was sent here by a Pakistani terrorist organisation,
the identity of his handler in Pakistan, his key contact here
and the Australian military targets they were considering.
We'll also reveal how an urgent cable sent to ASIO
warning that Brigitte was dangerous went unnoticed at
ASIO headquarters for four nights over a long weekend.
A month later, ASIO was taking Brigitte very seriously. "
Under Howard and Ruddock our National Security is a JOKE!
DENNIS RICHARDSON, DIRECTOR GENERAL,
ASIO (SENATE ESTIMATES COMMITTEE, 3 NOVEMBER 2003):
What I can say is that Brigitte was almost certainly involved in
activities with the intention of doing harm, in Australia.
SARAH FERGUSON: ASIO's opinion was based on the
investigation by the French intelligence service, the DST. "
For more details on Brigitte, and the Pakistani connection
(they are Bush and Deputy Dawgs ALLIES remember!)
and how the French provided the tipoff, see
http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/cover_stories/article_1477.asp
.......
"Brigitte was handed over to the Department of Immigration
and moved here to the Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney.
To the surprise of French authorities, he was deported to
France and not interrogated under ASIO's new powers.
It would have been the first use of those powers and the
Attorney-General was uncertain whether they applied to Brigitte.
PHILIP RUDDOCK: You have to make a judgment in
relation to these matters and the security agency made a judgment.
One, that it wasn't the best and most appropriate case to test for
the first time the powers that were implemented in the revised
ASIO arrangements, because it was questionable.
SARAH FERGUSON: But he did meet that test of someone
who is going to be able to offer reasonable assistance in
regards to a possible terrorist attack?
PHILIP RUDDOCK: Yes. Yes.
SARAH FERGUSON: So why not take the opportunity to use those
powers to learn more about his contacts here?
PHILIP RUDDOCK: I said the advice I have is that it was questionable.
SARAH FERGUSON: Given the seriousness of what has so
far emerged in the Brigitte investigation, it's critical to establish
how Australian authorities responded to the initial cables from
their colleagues in Paris.
"19th September 2003. Communication from the DST in Paris
to ASIO." The first cable from French intelligence to ASIO asked:
"Could you confirm Willie Brigitte is in Australia?"
It contained this information about Brigitte: "He left France in
May with a one-way ticket ... had participated in a selection
course in France ... [and had] … been twice in the Afghanistan
Pakistan zone where had undergone military training."
JEAN-FRANCOIS CLAIR: We described this man as he was
– a man who has been, who was interested in, who has been
training himself in Afghanistan and we gave a telephone number
in Australia, contacted by Brigitte just before he left France.
SARAH FERGUSON: It took three days for that cable to get to
ASIO in Canberra. ASIO chief Dennis Richardson told the Senate
committee it was treated then as routine.
DENNIS RICHARDSON: Their initial advice on 22
September did not express urgency or any particular concern.
It was treated within ASIO as a relatively routine matter.
SARAH FERGUSON: There were reports at the time that ASIO
moved very slowly to find Brigitte because they understood it was
only a routine matter, but from what you're saying, it ...
JEAN FRANCOIS CLAIR: No, we said it was a man who has been trained in
Afghanistan.
SARAH FERGUSON: So that makes him a threat?
JEAN FRANCOIS CLAIR: It's for you to ask them.
PHILIP RUDDOCK: Well, if somebody asks you to find out if
somebody is within your jurisdiction, that is a – it seems to me,
without some explanation, as to why you see that particular
individual to be of concern and what steps you might want to
take, in isolation, it seems to me to be routine.
SARAH FERGUSON: The French were so concerned they sent a second cable.
JEAN FRANCOIS CLAIR: Apparently, take time for our friends to find him.
He has been, in fact – we had to sensibilise them again on 3 October.
SARAH FERGUSON: And why was that?
JEAN FRANCOIS CLAIR: Pardon?
SARAH FERGUSON: Why did you go back?
JEAN FRANCOIS CLAIR: Because we had no answer.
SARAH FERGUSON: This cable carried a direct warning:
"Urgent: DST Paris to ASIO, Friday 3rd October. Brigitte is possibly
dangerous."
But it was Friday night just before 11pm at the start of the Labour Day long
weekend.
For four nights the cable went unnoticed at ASIO headquarters until Tuesday
morning.
SARAH FERGUSON: But if Willie Brigitte was dangerous on Tuesday,
why wasn't he dangerous enough on Friday for something to be done?
PHILIP RUDDOCK: If he was possibly dangerous on Tuesday and
possibly dangerous later, it seems to me that the judgment you have
to make is against other matters that you're dealing with.
SARAH FERGUSON: But the judgment was taken on Tuesday to act immediately.
PHILIP RUDDOCK: Mmm.
SARAH FERGUSON: So why wasn't that judgment ...
PHILIP RUDDOCK: When everybody was on the job.
SARAH FERGUSON: The fact is everybody wasn't on the job,
so there are periods in the national security of Australia when everyone is
not on the job.
PHILIP RUDDOCK: No, um, there are people who are on the job for 24 hours a
day,
7 days a week, but not all of them. "
Hey Phil.. how about you and your sleeping minions become a bit:
ALERT , BUT NOT ALARMED!
Ok, all you Relaxed and Comfortable tory security folk, lets
contrast the mammoth, billion dollar sideshows villifying
boat people with the casual handling of a real terrorist subject! 8^o
This is yet another security scandal from the tories, who play wedge
politics with harmless boat people, and give carte blanche to the 60,000
visa illegals who fly in.. just like Brigitte, not from Iraq, where
Al Qaeda wasn't (but might be now after the Warmongers of Mass
Delusion lied us into a murderous oil war) but from the new regime
the USSA has adopted after they abandoned Saddam, Pakistan,
home of Al Qaeda! B^p
Massive Intelligence failure? IT'S BETWEEN HOWARD'S EARS!
http://www.geocities.com/mild_colonial_boy/agitprop.html
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| User: "Ned Latham" |
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| Title: Re: The French Connection |
09 Feb 2004 07:28:46 AM |
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Peter Wicks (aka "Che Guava"), posting as "fasgnadh", wrote
in <c04fg0$2679$1@arachne.labyrinth.net.au>:
More of his political crud. Nothing relevant to act-b.
***** off, troll.
----snip----
Ned
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