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Australia: KRudd may take Guantanamo Bay inmates

Thanks to Gramfan

Sid Maher/The Australian

* He sure will. Its an offer he just can’t refuse:

KEVIN Rudd has left open the possibility of Australia taking former inmates from the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, but warned that any US request for an inmate to come would be subject to legal criteria and assessed on a case-by-case basis.

As the Greens warned the Prime Minister he faced a political backlash if he accepted detainees held in the US military jail at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a spokesman for Mr Rudd confirmed that US authorities had approached Australia and other countries about resettling the detainees.

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KRudd's Hot Air & Greenhouse Gasses

                       

                                     Krudd of Kruddistan

  *  It seemed a good idea at the time, but for Australia’s jet-setting PM Kevin Rudd it was just another act of grandstanding and platitudes. Adding insult to injury is the idiotic report  from al bebeeceera below.

* The head of the BBC has stated the media should treat Islam more sensitively than Christianity.

(and the bbc should be treated with the contempt it deserves – everyone, withhold the TV TAX)

           Australia drops Ahmadinejad case

The Australian government has abandoned plans to take international legal action against Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

                             Mr Ahmadinejad at Tehran's 2005 "World without Zionism" conference

Mr Ahmadinejad has made several anti-Israel remarks in past speeches.

Australian foreign minister, Stephen Smith, told parliament he did not wish to “give further profile to these obscene remarks”.  He also cited the complexity of the issues and the high legal threshold required to bring forward a case. “Complexity” translated means “lets put it in the too-hard basket”/ed

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Chairman KRudd Discovers 'Democracy' in Malaysia

Kevin Rudd, who has announced a number of joint programs with Malaysia, visits a secondary school in Kuala Lumpur. 

* Katharine Murphy, Putrajaya, Malaysia for the AGE

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says Malaysia is a vibrant and flourishing democracy, although he avoided meeting a politician regarded as the country’s de facto opposition leader.

Mr Rudd said yesterday that the strength of democracy in Malaysia was a “great testament to the political wisdom of the people of this country”.

“Democracy is not just alive and well in Malaysia but flourishing,” Mr Rudd said after meeting his Malaysian counterpart, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi.

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