TOPIC:

Let us hope Dutton is true to his word and he excludes all people returning from the fighting in Syria and Libya. One of the worst things the West ever did was encourage people to go over to Syria and fight against Asad.

ArkRoyal wrote: Let us hope Dutton is true to his word and he excludes all people returning from the fighting in Syria and Libya. One of the worst things the West ever did was encourage people to go over to Syria and fight against Asad.

They have been going all over the place for years, Hicks was in Afghanistan many in Iraq its mind boggling.

He was lucky he was not done for treason, that man Hicks. We should keep in mind that the taliban were regarded, rightlly by the Americans, as the defacto government of the Afghan, which is why they took prisinors. Australia was fighting against the taliban, but had not actually declarred war.

We should go back to declarring war as it gives combattants certain rights. Watching George Bush get on internatinal television and give Saddam a certain time 'to get out of Iraq', had no legal basis, and even more to the point, was simplly ridiculous. It was like watching a cow boy movie as a kid.

Grassy what was wrong with the Northern Alliance.Masood\Dostrom didn't they oppose the Talaban on human rights,treatment of women and Sharia Law.Never spoke to a Afgan who didn't like Masood.

Think Grassy the decade long Soviet occupation of Afganistan was quiet nasty.And so was the Mujhadeen response to the Soviets.

Hicks was an out and out weirdo, he got involved in Whabbist Islam while in Adelaide and started hanging around the Mosque listening to the Political Aims of militant Islam, eventually converting to Islam.

With the connections from that Mosque - he has then travelled to Pakistan with the deliberate aim of joining and training with the Pakistani Militant Group in the Kashmir that were fighting the Indian Army, this lead to his involvement and joining up with Al Queda and the Taliban who were supported by Pakistan. In letters to his parents he admits meeting Bin Laden 20 times, He was fighting for the Taliban either attacking or defending an airfield against the Northern Alliance when he was captured and handed over the US Army.

Grassy wrote: Yeah,meeting Bin Laden alone didn't do him any Cred here and in the USA.

Still won't change my opinion on the Northern Alliance.Didn't hear a peep from Bush about their Drug Running,which put the Columbian Cartels and that Drug Running Panamanian Dictator to Shame!

Taliban where/are growing Opium and dealing in it as well, it was their biggest earner, it the way the Afghans have been doing bizzo for centuries.
Hicks can thank his lucky stars the US Paid $5000 bucks for him to be handed over alive, another Talban fighter would of copped a bullet in the head and forgotten about, End of the day the idiot is lucky to be alive.

Have to admit Grassy the Northern Alliance where strange bedfellows. Masood had what was left of the Mujhadeen .Dostrom lead the Afgan Government Communist forces aligned with the Soviets.
Masood addressed the United Nations and the EU.And the NA recieves assistance of both groups.India also made large contributions to the Northern alliance.
There force of 15,000 troops were outnumbered about 20\1 by the Talaban.