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I'm sure if he was taken to Club Gitmo he would just be released and return right back to terrorism as so many already have.  Oh, that's right.  We don't respect laws or anything. 

I'm sure the families of those killed in the Bali bombing are looking forward to his release & re-introduction into society.  Nice job there, Oz.

not sure why it's not working for you.  seems fine from here.  sorry you hadda problem.   give this >>>one<<< a shot

the heart, soul and bedrock of our legal system is the principle of habeus corpus. 

governments claiming the power to restrict, deny or violate habeus corpus are collectively recognized and referred to as tyrannies. 

whether his assertions are true or he was intending to commit  terrorist attacks, australia clearly screwed up badly by ignoring him.  after his arrest, australia did nothing more nor less than a civilized society expects of government:  saifullah/roche was legally tried, convicted and imprisoned.

if there's evidence this guy somehow managed despite himself to successfully inflict injury or death on anyone or damage to property, it's not easy to locate.  same goes for proof he didn't hurt anyone.  ditto for his claimed offers of information and/or infiltration as well as asio's denial of any such offers being made on his part (it is kinda interesting that asio policy has been changed to require followup of all contacts).  

this bbc report seems to offer as much insight as anything else i've seen or as may ever be available to anyone without sufficient security clearance (find it here):

"according to analysts, he is also guilty of a stunning level of ignorance.

Giving evidence at his court hearing in Perth, Roche gave the impression he was largely unaware of the plans afoot - even though he was given explosives training and asked to undertake surveillance of the embassy.

By his own admission, Roche was easily led. But he was also "incredibly naive and stupid", according to David Wright-Neville, of the Global Terrorism Project at Monash University, Melbourne.

Dr Wright-Neville described Roche as an "Antipodean version of shoe bomber Richard Reid", the British man found guilty of trying to blow up a packed flight with explosives hidden in his shoes.

"He didn't know what he was getting himself into," said Dr Wright-Neville, "and when he realised, he got cold feet."

By then, it was too late. Fearing for his life, Roche said he carried out orders to investigate the embassy."

the embassy in question is israel's embassy in caberra australia.  clearly roche/siafullah was hardly alone in his naivete or stupidity:

So in June 2000, Roche started filming outside the embassy in Canberra.

In the resulting video, Roche can be heard telling passers-by he was a tourist interested in architecture. A security guard replied: "Is that what it is? I didn't think you were going to bomb the joint."

all of the above--serious tho it may be--has little to do with the point i hoped to make with his one. 

anyone who's taken time to check out their articles' referrals has some idea of ju's scope and range.  in certain respects it's analagous to a long gone phenomenon recalled by the wall of voodoo's 'mexican radio'.  that song celebrated broadcast stations located just across the border from restrictive fcc wattage limits.  under the right conditions they owned the night from the plains to the pacifc and possibly into canada.    

i can't say with any certainty whether the responder is or isn't jack roche/khalid saifullah--but i'm guessing it is he.  he was released from prison in 2007. it seems he was using the net at least as early as the late 1990s. he's the right age. although only a few sentences long,  the writing style manifested in his comment mirrors that of letters he wrote to reporter colleen egan which were excerpted in her articles about her correspondent.

bear in mind the last reply in that thread prior to his was posted on june 8, 2004.  the article quickly slipped beneath our wisdom like a stone tied to a cinderblock tied to the titanic positioned directly over the mariannas trench.  to find it in my archive you gotta have no sense and someone to keep clicking 'next' cuz your body iis completely immobile thanks to some kinda horrible disease or accident.

of everything relating to roche i've been able to turn up, only one element raised any significant doubt in my mind and even then it's something too weird to not be real. 

check out the profile he hadda create to reply to my post.

As in the United States Government under Lincoln.

Seems to me that is reserved for citizens of the US. What right do we have  to extend our justice system on the world? Would you be happy if say North Koreans brand justice was imposed on you? According to your philosophy there were 100's of thousands of Axis prisoners that didn't get a fair trial during WWII. They were on US soil. Should we have had hearings to see if any were innocent and send them back? Remember Al Quaeda declared war on the US in the 90's (Clinton just didn't take it seriously). So if your shooting at a US soldier in the name of this group or their allies, your only right when captured is as a prisoner of war, 1000 times better than what they give a captured US soldier. Funny how the left never cries foul over a dead, mutilated coalition troop. There was a name used for that in the past that for some reason seems not to apply today.