Incompetent Immigration Department Undermines Muslim Communities In Australia.

Note: This situation is total poison for the Australian muslim communities. The general public automatically extends this security lapse over all the muslims in Australia; no one in government, State or Federal, seems to care about this.

We are not informed as to how this situation of the 'al Qaeda bagman' came to government notice; hopefully some muslim member of the Australian community informed on him.

This person would not be the only such type in Australia; finding them and alerting the Police is a good opportunity for the muslim communities; these people are hiding among muslims.

An Australian Islam will always put the interests of Australian muslims ahead of the fantasy world revolution of Wahhabi fascist muslims.

Serious attention needs also to be paid to the widely incompetent and deeply corrupt Immigration Department. None of these Wahhabi fascist muslims enter Australia illegally...they are given visas by a useless Department,run by third raters.







Al-Qaeda 'bagman' sparks visa probe
From: By Simon Kearney
April 10, 2006
THE Howard Government will launch an investigation into why an alleged senior al-Qaeda bagman was allowed into Australia a decade ago and whether he lied to immigration authorities about his past.

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation will also examine information revealed in The Weekend Australian on Saturday about Ahmad al-Hamwi and allegations that he had supplied funds for terrorists across South-East Asia.
An Immigration Department spokeswoman said the case files of Mr Hamwi, who was found living in the southwestern Sydney suburb of Riverwood last week, would be reopened and examined to determine if he had committed citizenship fraud.

Mr Hamwi, also known by his alias Abu Omar, told the Refugee Review Tribunal in 1996 he had no involvement in terrorism and failed to mention a residency in Turkey. Philippines National Police intelligence reports allege that he had been banned from Turkey for his suspected involvement in a 1986 bombing.

The Weekend Australian revealed on Saturday that Mr Hamwi was the director of an Islamic charity that US and Philippines counter-terrorist officials say was a conduit for funding an al-Qaeda cell in Manila planning a major terrorist attack on US airliners and an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1995.

Philippines National Police intelligence reports also say the charity funded the Philippines terrorist group Abu Sayef and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.


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The spokeswoman said if there was enough evidence to show Mr Hamwi had committed immigration fraud his citizenship or residency in Australia could be revoked.
"We would have to establish there was a case to answer, then it would be referred to the Australian Federal Police," she said.

A spokeswoman for Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said the information contained in the story would be of interest to security agencies. "Anything that goes to national security is not something that the Attorney would comment on, his view would be that if there are people of a security concern, our agencies would obviously be concerned and investigating that," Mr Ruddock's spokeswoman said.

"At this stage they're reports, that information is now obviously in the public domain and clearly available to security agencies."

A spokesman for Opposition national security spokesman Arch Bevis said the federal Government had to explain why a person with close ties to Osama bin Laden had been given refuge in Australia.

"The Government's handling of immigration and asylum matters has seen some Australians deported whilst people close to terrorists remain at large here in Australia," he said.

The Weekend Australian put detailed questions to Mr Hamwi but he repeatedly refused to respond.

Mr Hamwi admitted to the Refugee Review Tribunal that he was the director of the International Research and Information Centre (IRIC) in Manila from 1993 to 1995.

According to terrorism researcher Zachary Abuza and Philippines National Police counter-terrorist investigator Rodolfo Mendoza, he was part of a three-man team at the charity, which was the chief conduit of funds to 1993 World Trade Centre bomber Ramzi Yousef. Yousef was planning to blow up 11 US airliners over the Pacific in 1995 when an accidental explosion in his apartment alerted Philippines police to the plot, known as Operation Bojinka, and the related plot to assassinate John Paul II.

Mr Hamwi became involved in the charity through his brother-in-law and former flatmate, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa - who is Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law - and was sent to the Philippines by the world's most wanted man to establish a Southeast Asian arm to his worldwide terrorist network.

The pair lived together for years and married Filipina sisters, Nora and Alice.

For Khalifa, this was one of two wives - his other wife is Osama bin Laden's older sister.

One of the other men involved with the IRIC was Wali Khan Amin Shah, a close associate of bin Laden who became a key planner in the Bojinka plot. Wali Khan was arrested in February 1995. He was later convicted along with Yousef. He has since co-operated with US authorities.

Mr Mendoza's investigation fingered Mr Hamwi for providing funding to Yousef for his terrorist activities through an intermediary, Carol Santiago (who revealed his name during interrogation), and her boyfriend, Wali Khan.

Mr Hamwi was questioned but never arrested for his role in the plot. Philippines officials were ill-prepared to round up all the suspects, who soon fled the country. Mr Hamwi fled to Australia just months after the discovery of the plot.

Former ASIS spy Warren Reed said allowing Mr Hamwi into the country was a "potentially dangerous situation".




Comment: How is it possible that the Immigration Department is still allowing into Australia persons who are obviously muslim Wahhabi fanatics? They wear a Wahhabi uniform all the time, so officers who can actually do their jobs in the Australian embassies abroad can detect them. Too much to ask?

The government can make life easier for themselves by banning Wahhabi and Salafi Islam from Australia under the Terrorism Act. The case against these fascist groups is readily availble to the government. The American government wont be happy with such a move, because the Bush family has serious oil business dealings with Saudi interests, who are Wahhabis and Salafis. Perhaps the Australian government can put Australia's interests ahead of the Bush family finances? Too much to ask?

The big losers in all this are the local muslims. They are the ones who carry the can of public hatred and contempt because the Australian governments wont do their jobs properly. Why wont they do their jobs properly? Too much to ask?