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Scoop Analysis: Gordon Campbell: Zaoui - the Algerian connection
The headline ‘Top Al Qaeda Member Surrenders’ in Wednesday’s Herald certainly suggested the forces of freedom had landed a big fish this time, but well, no….not exactly. The surrendering fellow turned out to belong to one faction of a shrinking militant group inside Algeria, and the guy happened to be giving up because his faction actually opposed being linked to al Qaeda. The group was once called the GSPC, and it had changed its name to the more newsworthy ‘Al Qaeda in the Maghreb’only late last year. More >>
Scoop News: Gordon Campbell Series: The Special Advocates' Dilemma
Like the Weasley twins in the Harry Potter saga, the special advocates appointed to the Zaoui review are the wild card element in the proceedings. Their role verges on the absurd. They are appointed by the Crown, but only in order to oppose the Crown case. They get to test the SIS secret evidence on Zaoui’s behalf, yet can’t talk to him. As Lord Bingham of the British Law Lords has said, this is nothing remotely like a normal lawyer/client relationship. More >>
Gordon Campbell: Zaoui - How It Ends - The Zaoui hearing is now in recess, for the entire week. Last week, SIS Inspector-General Paul Neazor heard from the two most important Zaoui defence witnesses. Namely, Professor George Joffe, the leading expert in North Africa studies from Cambridge University - and Colonel Muhammed Samraoui, the Algerian regime’s former head of intelligence in Europe. More >>
The Ahmed Zaoui Case - Security, Paranoia, and Immigration - Gordon Campbell writes: It is particularly easy to despair when Michael Cullen can get up in the House – as he did yesterday - and deliver the same old inaccurate rant against Zaoui and his false passport, while attacking Zaoui’s lawyers to boot. More >>
The Ahmed Zaoui Case - Injustice On The Cheap
Gordon Campbell writes: Unless you’re talking about money, New Zealand seems fairly relaxed about the potential abuse of state power. The Auditor-General, IRD and Treasury may be funded sufficiently to keep an eye on how money is being spent and recouped - but the agencies supposed to protect our rights as citizens have to get by on starvation rations and, in some cases, with a questionable level of independence. That is especially so with the Office of the SIS Inspector-General. More >>
Justice: Gordon Campbell - The Zaoui Story Up
Close And Personal Former Listener journalist Gordon
Campbell continues his series for Scoop examining the Zaoui
case and the review currently being carried out by the
Inspector General of Intelligence and Security, Justice Paul
Neazor. The SIS issued a security risk certificate against
Mr Zaoui in 2003. Finally, four years later, a review of
that document is underway. Gordon Campbell takes us back
over the five years Mr Zaoui has been in New Zealand and
looks at the background of New Zealand's most famous
security intelligence/refugee case. More>>
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