Tuesday, 8 February 2011

Australia Network News:Stories:Burmese call to ease international sanctions

"ASIO says its individual security assessments are conducted on a case by case basis."

 CPA - The Guardian - #1488

"“… the stage has been reached where the current scale of operations on Christmas Island is not sustainable,”"

Difference Between ASIS and ASIO | Difference Between | ASIS vs ASIO

"ASIS and ASIO are part of Australian Intelligence Community. Australia has a well developed structure of intelligence collection and analysis."

Judicial review of ASIO underway - Top Stories - Lawyers Weekly - Breaking legal news, views, analysis and legal jobs online

"Two Iraqi refugees who spent years in a Nauru detention centre after being deemed a security risk, only to be later granted refugee status, are seeking judicial review of ASIO's decision making processes."

Australians training in Yemen terrorist camps - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"An Arab intelligence agent has told the ABC's Foreign Correspondent program that Australian citizens have been seen in Al Qaeda terrorist training camps in Yemen."

Monday, 7 February 2011

Just as Tuckey predicted | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

"Desperate to again distract the easily distracted media from his bungling of our border protection, Rudd last week leapt on these comments by Liberal backbencher Wilson Tuckey:"

Anti-terrorism laws and the implications for Australian publishing « .ReviewMania.

"The introduction of new anti-terrorism-related laws within Western democracies has created a climate within Western media, and particularly in Australia, which threatens to destabilise the media’s capacity to counter-balance the power of the government"

Australia and US sign secret satellite spy deal

"AUSTRALIA and the United States have begun a partnership to share top-secret intelligence from spy satellites as Australia moves to acquire its own satellite to boost surveillance of Asia and the Pacific."

Sunday, 6 February 2011

Friday, 4 February 2011

UFOs - scientific research: ASIO and Australian UFO groups

"During the period when the Disclosure Australia Project (http://disclosureaustralia.freewebpages.org) was actively pursuing Australian Federal government UFO files, I requested files, if any, held by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) (http://www.asio.gov.au) on a number of Australian UFO groups."

Thursday, 3 February 2011

Rejected asylum seekers demand answers from ASIO

"THE last asylum seeker left on Nauru as part of the Pacific solution was repeatedly questioned by ASIO about a 30-second meeting he had with militant anti-US Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the 1990s."

Wednesday, 2 February 2011

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"The decision-maker is the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). The applicants are Mohammed Sagar and Muhammad Faisal, both of whom fled Iraq, sought asylum in Australia in 2001 and were sent to Nauru. Both were found to be refugees in 2005."

Court reviews ASIO's security assessment - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"A federal court judge will today review the role of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) in an adverse security ruling against two Iraqi refugees."

The Domino Theory - Armchair General and HistoryNet >> The Best Forums in History

"In the very early 1960’s there were some in the Australian Intelligence community who thought that the best that could be done in Vietnam was to buy time for other countries in the region."

Tuesday, 1 February 2011

Australia Must End Indefinite Detention of Rohingya Refugees

"Early Monday morning, a Rohingya refugee detained in Australia’s Northern Immigration Detention Center, went to visit some of his friends in a nearby cell. He asked if there was any update on their immigration case and what might happen to them. They told him that all they knew was that there was no news."

Sunday, 30 January 2011

That Striped Sunlight Sound: Redgum - Everything's Legal Anything Goes

"Break-in, stake out, tell it in code
Everything is legal, anything goes
The nights get darker and the ill wind blows
Your life's in a databank at ASIO"

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Mamdouh Habib - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Australian government authorities allege that Habib was in Afghanistan, and that while there he took an advanced al-Qaeda training course in a camp near Kabul. It is claimed that the course included surveillance and photographing facilities, the establishment and use of safe houses, covert travel and writing secret reports. Australian authorities say that several other men who took part in the course identified Habib as having been there. Evidence to support these claims has not been made public"

Public Announcements: Mamdouh Habib

"The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS) has been requested by the Prime Minister to conduct an inquiry into the actions of relevant Australian agencies in relation to the arrest and detention overseas of Mr Mamdouh Habib from 2001 to 2005."

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

PM - ASIO sued over Oceanic Viking security assessments 20/01/2011

"Australia's spy agency ASIO is being challenged in the Federal Court over the ongoing detention of Sri Lankan refugees."

Sunday, 23 January 2011

Tamils’ torment not over | Green Left Weekly

"Ten-year-old Tamil refugee Brindha faces deportation to Sri Lanka after being rejected by the immigration department, the January 3 Australian said."