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  • Mohammed Haneef: Government bullies & media maladies 

    khadaksingh 9:25 pm on July 19, 2007 Permalink | Reply

    Mohammed HaneefIndian Governments’ request to treat Haneef just and fairly went unheard(if at all that singnifies Indian influence on countries other than those in the subcontinet.) .

    Dr.Mohammed Haneef was detained in Australia for his alleged involvement in failed glasgow bombings

    Haneef was later released on a bail of $10,000, however Immigration Minister making a mockery of its own judiciary and putting the sanity of mankind to test, revoked the password of Doctor and termed his stay in Australi illegal as he has failed character test!
    On the other hand the much famous news paper The Sun is calling “Suicide bombing attempts” as “Attempt to suicide”.Dave Bath reports here how Dr.Haneef is being humiliated and villified by the media.

     
    • Dave Bath 1:48 pm on July 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      This post at the well-respected Larvatus Prodeo blog does a good job of gathering together bits and pieces of breaking news that the police affadavit presented to court and the record of the police interview the affadavit covers have some significant differences that will probably blow apart the prosecution case. The differences are not the kind that would be produced by innocent error of transcribers.

      Will Kevin Andrews the Immigration minister, Philip Ruddock the Attorney General or senior federal police get anything more than egg on their face? They won’t even get their wrists slapped.

    • khadaksingh 10:24 pm on July 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Dave, thanks for posting the link.
      It does a good job of creating awareness! :)

    • Dave Bath 9:35 am on July 21, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      This is the link you should be pointing to as it has more photos and discussion – the link you give was to a “reminder” I put up because nobody seemed to have noticed the original.

      Fortunately, a crosspost at DeadRoo got the noticed of one of the well-known “weekly summary of Oz blogs” – the “Missing Link” posts at Club Troppo. Your readers might also be interested in a “Dr Haneef” edition of the MissingLink here.

      How upset is the blogoshere in the subcontinent? (I’m assuming you are in India)

      You may also be interested in an Australian blog announced here (which also has an online petition), and I’d expect some activity soon on the new site here.

      I don’t want to give people over there the impression that Australian’s dont care about how Haneef is being treated. Yes, there is a lot of concern about the attack on generic civil liberties, but many of us are also concerned about Dr Haneef in particular. But still, the bulk of the population is content to be misinformed and believes the government line.

    • amla from adelaide 7:03 pm on July 25, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Hi dave, !
      I was looking for more stuff on haneef since i am close to the epicentre so to speak and was a bit disappointed to see the note of “he must have done” “what made him act like that” etc. which seems to assign guilt to him without benefit of doubt on quite a few blogs. I am glad that at least SOMEONE is willing to be sane about it, and doubly glad that that someone is a fellow aussie!

      I dont say he has done nothing, or otherwise for that matter, but it might be interesting for you to look at his initial interrogation by the Australian Federal Police here http://www.hindu.com/nic/0058/haneef.htm which IMO does not indicate any portrayal of “guilt”, and certainly not to the extent portrayed by the australian govt. and sensationalised by the media.

      Also, the thing which is rarely mentioned in the media, is that the SIM card in question was given by him (this seems at this point to be the ONLY thing linking him to the alledged accused, apart from distant relationship) to sabeel more than a year ago, when he was leaving the UK.

      Like I said, I would rather wait for further evidence before I make up my mind either way, but knwoing john howard, and the paranoia he loves to create as elections draw close, If i had to take a bet, I would probably say the only thing Haneef is guilty of is having the first name mohammed, being conveniently muslim, and trying to leave australia on a one way ticket instead of a return ticket ( and I can understand his situation since I have myself asked on at least 2 depressingly desperate occasions if my parents could send me a one way ticket as i was broke, out of a job and home sick).

      Fortunately for me, those offers were never actually actioned, and so here I am – possibly better off, but who knows??!!

  • Fake Encounters: DIG Vanzara chargesheet filed 

    khadaksingh 1:55 am on July 18, 2007 Permalink | Reply

    Vanzara a senior IPS officer from Gujarat ,who had earlier killed Sohrabuddin Sheikh in a fake encounter, lit Kauserr Bi’s pyre to destroy evidence.

    Kauser Bi, was wife of alleged extortionist Sohrabuddin , who was killed by Vanzara on Novermber 26th, 2005.

    13 page chargesheet has been filed against him by CID officer Geeta Johari.A 700 page annexure was also submitted in an enclosure.

    Vanzara is also alleged to masterminded staged killing of Ishrat Jahan, a 19 year old college girl from Mumbai alleging her to be LeT operative.

    While in Uttar Pradesh, victims of a mass rape could only witness MLA’s staging a walk out!

     
  • Mohammed Haneef: Test of patience, really! 

    khadaksingh 11:19 pm on July 16, 2007 Permalink | Reply

    Haneef SupportAs Australian Federal Police was not able to prove any involvment in the acts of terror , detained Dr. Haneef for more than 10 days .As Dr.Haneef was brought him to the court on charge of being “reckless” as his SIM was used by Kafeel Ahmed, the perpetrator of Glasgow bombings, could not provide any face saving grace.

    Dr.Haneef , first detainee under Australia’s 2004 anti-terrorism act, was released after a $10,000 bail which was accepted.

    However, the wait for him to reach India to meet his mom,wife and new born daughter ,seems to be getting more longer as his visa has been cancelled and is moved to immigration detention center.

    Hoping Government of India, intervenes and helps Haneef’s family at this tough moment

    While civil activists are protesting his detention, it is a Test of patience, really! L

     
    • Dave Bath 12:57 pm on July 17, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      (1) Your tag should mention Australia rather than Britain
      (2) Thanks for keeping non-English speakers aware of this, and the lack of human rights over here in Oz
      (3) It’s not only the government being cavalier with democratic principles, you ought to see how the Murdoch press is representing him (see my summary which has a photo gallery

    • khadaksingh 5:16 pm on July 17, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Dave, thanks for stopping by!
      1) I have added the tag for Australia.
      2)Trying to do my bit.
      3)Government, press and large corporations-Axis of Evil?

    • amla from adelaide 7:00 pm on July 25, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Hi Nita and others on this blog!
      I was looking for more stuff on haneef since i am close to the epicentre so to speak and was a bit disappointed to see the note of “he must have done” “what made him act like that” etc. which seems to assign guilt to him without benefit of doubt.

      I dont say he has done nothing, or otherwise for that matter, but it might be interesting for you to look at his initial interrogation by the Australian Federal Police here http://www.hindu.com/nic/0058/haneef.htm which IMO does not indicate any portrayal of “guilt”, and certainly not to the extent portrayed by the australian govt. and sensationalised by the media.

      Also, the thing which is rarely mentioned in the media, is that the SIM card in question was given by him (this seems at this point to be the ONLY thing linking him to the alledged accused, apart from distant relationship) to sabeel more than a year ago, when he was leaving the UK.

      Like I said, I would rather wait for further evidence before I make up my mind either way, but knwoing john howard, and the paranoia he loves to create as elections draw close, If i had to take a bet, I would probably say the only thing Haneef is guilty of is having the first name mohammed, being conveniently muslim, and trying to leave australia on a one way ticket instead of a return ticket ( and I can understand his situation since I have myself asked on at least 2 depressingly desperate occasions if my parents could send me a one way ticket as i was broke, out of a job and home sick).

      Fortunately for me, those offers were never actually actioned, and so here I am – possibly better off, but who knows??!!

  • Terrorist plot and the Terminaly Ill 

    khadaksingh 10:07 pm on July 10, 2007 Permalink | Reply

    Glasgow bomber

    Most of the reports published since failed London & Glasgow bombings, have been absolutely absurd, few blatant lies, outright assumption and other few even ridiculous.

    To give all of us a good laugh, Bangalore police after not gaining a single clue for more than year and half, is now investigating if Kafeel was involved in attacks on IISc (Earlier it was suspected it was masterminded by LeT).

     

    According to me article written by Sanjay Suri (published by The News Today Bangladesh and Outlook India (July 16, 2007 now on stands) titled Terminal Illness is the most substantive & subtle description of failed bombings.

     

    Author takes into account situational evidences when he mentions “The Glasgow attempt was just as clumsy. Driving a jeep into a building in Glasgow was never in itself going to set off an explosion. When the driver later set fire to it, burning himself first, no damage was done at the airport that some builders cannot fix in a week. Again, a quite untrained move. But one that is both reassuring and worrying. Reassuring, because almost certainly no real terrorist group was behind these attempts. Worrying, because the attempt shows how commonly available material such as petrol and gas cylinders can be deployed to shake up a nation. And if tapped more effectively through a detonating device, to blow up bits of it as well.

     

    Sanjay explains the psyche of perpetrators “The one doctor against whom there’s a watertight case is Bilal Abdullah, the Iraqi in the jeep that crashed into the Glasgow airport building. More than the July 7 bombers who had talked of their anger over Iraq, he would have reason to be angry. Early reports suggest Abdullah graduated from a Baghdad medical college in 2004–a year after the invasion of Iraq led by the United States and Britain. He would have seen in that year the brutal face of the invasion, and like the rest of Iraq would have lost the dream of the invaders bringing to Iraq the sort of democracy and development they know back home. An associate of his has said in an interview to the BBC that Abdullah was “very angry about the West”, that he “actively cheered the deaths of British and American troops in Iraq“.

    The article would be incomplete without the expected backlash “And given the naming of Indians as suspects, their seeking a future in Britain’s health service could now become an unintended casualty. Read the complete article:

    The News Today Bangladesh

    Outlook India

     
  • Kafeel a terrorist, who else? 

    khadaksingh 10:38 pm on July 6, 2007 Permalink | Reply

    If one can believe that Kafeel a student of above average caliber can be a terrorist, then one can also buy my version of story:

    Kafeel was befriended by religious zealots, however he was averse to their intentions.

    The plot at London & Glasgow failed attempts are a façade and were planned to be a farce to create panic in public.

    Meanwhile Kafeels’ friend had planned for an attack.On that day Kafeel was driving van, not knowing what it contained. While he was driving, his companion forced him to drive it into airport and Kafeel would not agree to it. There was a scuffle and  vehicle rammed into the parking. His companion sets him into a ball of fire or may be someone else.

    Probably ,those reading this blog may have a better version of this story and others may call me insane.However knowing that; 

    >British Police detained Mohammed Abdul Kahar and Abul Koyair only to release them later.Kafeel

    >British Prime Minister, Tony Blair had lied to the parliament & was lamented for sexing up the dossier to convince to go to war with Iraq.

    >British Police had also detained 21 young British of subcontinent origin plotting for a large bombing, however it has not proved anything either.

    There are other reasons that make it hard to believe Kafeel could ever be a terrorist.

    >Kafeel Ahmed, scored 87% in his Mechanical Engineering degree.

    >He was reserved student,articulate best in debates and also took part in extra curricular activities while never neglecting his studies.

    >Kafeel was working on a project to improve the reading ability of visually impaired, as an expert in Computational Fluid Dynamics at Angila Technological University, Cambridge.

    >Kafeel was also part of a team of professors and faculty members, which produced annual research report of Cambridge and Chelmsford universities in the UK.

    God forbid, if Kafeel is really what media is reporting, there is something terribly wrong!

     
    • nitinrohidas 10:43 am on July 10, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      HEy man…it can be true also..u knw why i think so?

      Watch the movie “Khakhi”…the story of a muslim doctor being targeted and framed..and it can happen in real life too..

      i still keep my fingers crossed…

      Who knws the real truth?

    • khadaksingh 11:22 pm on July 10, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Nitin, you are right, we cannot jump to conclusions till the investigations are complete.

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