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The vile crap just on the news about how Mamdou Habib was released after the US "decided not to charge him with terrorist-related crimes" should result in a lawsuit by Mr Habib against any major channel who asserts that the "decision" was not based on a complete absence of any evidence that Mr Habib had committed any offence whatsoever.
It is my fervent hope that Mr Habib - along with the UK detained who were released (and then wrongfully arrested again and wrongfully imprisoned again on their arrival home, albeit for just a day) - will launch mutli-million dolalr damages claims against the Departments of Defence and Homeland Security and their departmental heads jointly and respectively.
Jerkoffs like Doug Feith (who has just quit but will be charged with espoinage reasonably soon) can act as agents provocateurs on behalf of a foreign power (I spy with my little eye, on behalf of a country starting with... I...), but it's poor bastards like Mr Habib and David Hicks who get the night-stick up the Vord.
And where was the Australian government - whose job is to protect its citizens from abuse at the hands of foreign powers?
Well, Howard and Downer had their tongues so far up Bush's tuches that they probably would not have been able to hear Mr Habib's screams even if he was in the next room. He lied - look at the Hansard.
Politicians are worse than ticket-clippers (that's a big call ,but I think it's valid). At least a ticket-clipper can get hold of an IPO allocation for you once in a blue moon...
