Aussie Jihadist On Disability Pension In Syria

[icyfroth]

Australian convicted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf reportedly continued to receive a disability pension months after arriving on the battlefields of Syria.

Sharrouf, who fled Australia for Syria using his brother's passport on December 6, continued to receive his disability support pension at least until February, about two months after he left Australia to join insurgents fighting the Syrian government, The Weekend Australian says.

The newspaper says revelations that the former Sydney man was paid his regular disability cheque - about $766 a fortnight - long after authorities knew he was gone raise the possibility that the taxpayer may have been inadvertently funding his activities.

It is not clear if Sharrouf accessed the money, the newspaper says, but his journey to Syria took him through Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey, countries where he would have had ready access to any money paid into his bank account.

Sharrouf was jailed in 2005 for nearly four years for possessing six clocks and 140 batteries connected to a terrorist conspiracy in which 18 men were convicted over plans to attack targets in NSW and Victoria.

Entire Article Here

He's come full circle hasn't he?

The parents come here to escape war and terror and give their kids a better life. Then the kids go back to the old country keep the viscious circle going.

All at Aussie taxpayers expense.

Very disappointing.

[***super_nova***]

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@tall_bearded01 wrote:

As for, “What influences?  How about being bullied at school for looking different, and witnessing Muslims being called terrorists, and told to go "home",   and women wearing hijab on the street being spat on?  The hatred shown against people from middle eastern countries is worse than any other bigoted prejudice against any wave of new migrants before.”

Such statement beggars’ belief and are akin to excusing paedophilia because the offender were themselves molested as a child.

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I am not trying to excuse these idiots who support ISIS.  All what I am saying is that I understand why these kids feel disenfranchised from our society, and why they seek something else.  But in any case, to start with, we and the USA  applauded the insurgents in Syria; it would suit us to get rid of Bashar al-Assad.  Just as we supported the the Egyptian uprising, and look now what we have got.  As they say; one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.  By the way, I felt from the start that maybe we should not be so enthusiastic about the uprising in Syria.

Understanding that molested kids very often grow up to be molesters themselves, does not mean that we condone molesting kids.  But it is a good idea to give molested kids as much help and counseling as possible, to make sure that they do not go on molesting children themselves.  And making sure that kids are not bullied at school - for whatever reason.  It is in our interest as a society.

[icyfroth]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

Im not trying to excuse these idiots who support ISIS.  All what I am saying is that I understand why these kids feel disenfranchised from our society, and why they seek something else.  But in any case, to start with, we and the USA  applauded the insurgents in Syria; it would suit us to get rid of Bashar al-Assad.  Just as we supported the the Egyptian uprising, and look now what we have got.  As they say; one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.  By the way, I felt from the start that maybe we should not be so enthusiastic about the uprising in Syria.

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Totally agree, but how does someone who has been convicted of plotting terrorist attacks against Australia IN AUSTRALIA still get a disability pension with which to fund his terrorist activities and ultimately to escape the country on a borrowed passport, undetected?

In WW's 1 and 2 any Italian, German, Japanese men of fighting age were interned for the duration of the war, and all property forfeit to the state, both in the US and Australia.

Nowadays we give them pensions, right.

He should never be let back into the country and his family should be kept under surveillance, seeing it was his brother's passport that was stolen.

I have no doubt these ppl see themselves as freedom fighters and I can see their point in many ways, the way US backed Israel throwing it's weight around in the Middle East.

[punch*drunk]

I'm not sure I agree with bullying in school etc being a reason for men to go off and wage war against the country they were born and grew up in. The kind of hate radical extremists have is usually passed down through the generations from their parents and their parent's parents. Maybe compounded by racial intolerance, but not caused.

2 months extra of DSP...well, the wheels turn slowly and the government can reach into your bank account and take it back when they realise they've over paid you. Assuming it hadnt already been used of course.

I've been reluctant to say this in case its taken the wrong way, but an unmedicated schizophrenic is probably considered an asset to the terrorists.

I just hope they can track down all the Australians that are fighting and/or trainig to fight and stop them from returning here. probably easier said than done if they are Australian citizens.

[icyfroth]

citizenships can be revoked and in this case he should be stripped of his. As should his 300-odd  mates who are in the same situation.

[punch*drunk]

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@icyfroth wrote:

citizenships can be revoked and in this case he should be stripped of his. As should his 300-odd  mates who are in the same situation.

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Even if they are born here?

[icyfroth]

yes a national can be stripped of their citizenship.

actually it would'nt surprise me if he has a dual Leb/Aus citizenship

[punch*drunk]

Excellent, they can keep them all then!

[oldyandgoody]

Australian silence on human rights is our gift to Sri Lanka

For someone who was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Australia, to see my two countries agree to oppose a landmark human rights inquiry is a shame!

Thursday 8 May 2014 

What a photo: the smiling Sri Lankan defence secretary, accused of overseeing war crimes, gifting a premium box of Dilmah tea to the equally cheery Australian immigration and border protection minister, accused of running concentration camps. Apparently, the relationship between the two countries (cricket aside) genuinely could not be closer.

For some third-culture kids, immigrants who never really knew where they belonged, perhaps diplomatic camaraderie may in some nerdy way help to soothe a dislocated soul. But as someone who was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Australia, this week’s headlines about the two nations’ mutual admiration club have not evoked pleasant thoughts.

After the United Nations reports on war crimes, the supply of Australian vessels to the Sri Lankan Navy to prevent the departure of people who want to escape, and the revelation that a former Sri Lankan military officer was overseeing the interment of Tamil asylum seekers on Manus Island, there was something about the smarminess of the exchange in that picture that caused me additional disgust and embarrassment. It was, after all, taken to celebrate a moment of "bold" solidarity between two nations who both agreed it was best not to support an international inquiry into human rights abuses at the end of the 2009 Sri Lankan civil war.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/08/australian-silence-on-human-rights-is-our-gift-...

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2014/05/packer-behind-mahinda-abbott-friendship.html

Published On:Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Posted by Sri Lanka Guardian

Packer Behind Mahinda-Abbott Friendship?

| by Upul Joseph Fernando 

( May 7, 2014, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Suspicion is building up with regard to the relationship between casino king, James Packer and the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime. The government introduced a Bill last year that facilitated Packer to start casino clubs in Sri Lanka. However, the Bill was withdrawn from the Parliament agenda due to protest by the Buddhist monks and the patriotic elements in the government.

James Packer, Kerry Stokes and Andrew Forrest tour Asia with Tony Abbott
http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/james-packer-kerry-stokes-and-andrew-forrest-tour-asia-with-...

Looks like casino mogul James Packer’s meetings with Minister of Investment Promotion Lakshman Yapa have paid off. (Image: news360.lk)

http://www.onlinecasino.com.au/news/sri-lanka-u-turns-packer-casino-4088/

Look what our Government uses LOADS of our money for.

Government's spin costs us big time too.

[oldyandgoody]

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@icyfroth wrote:

yes a national can be stripped of their citizenship.

actually it would'nt surprise me if he has a dual Leb/Aus citizenship

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In the interest of Protecting our Borders we really need to know if and when Tony Abbott renounced his British citizenship? 44 (i) of the constitution http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/s44.html COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT - SECT 44 Disqualification Any person who: (i) is under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience, or adherence to a foreign power, or is a subject or a citizen or entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power;

[oldyandgoody]

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@*mrgrizz* wrote:

seriously, you people can see nothing wrong with this?

he is too disabled to work, but can go overseas to fight...........right

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The wellbeing of service personnel and veterans with mental illnesses has always been secondary to the primary concerns of the military and of governments. During both world wars the fundamental role of the medical staff in the military was to maintain the ‘strength of the fighting force’.1 As such, psychiatric casualties were predominately treated close to the front line in field hospitals and clinics, and the majority were returned to active service to prevent desertion of soldiers with *fictitious mental illnesses*. http://www.api-network.com/main/index.php?apply=scholars&webpage=default&flexedit=&flex_password=&me... They were sent back to fight and did fight while suffering from Mental Illness. That was the past. Who would consider 'fit and well and 'work ready' now?