Legal experts to mull Haneef case

The handling of the case of Mohamed Haneef will be discussed at a public forum in Sydney today.

It is part of an inquiry into why the former Gold Coast-based doctor was charged over a terrorism plot in the UK and why the case against him collapsed.

The head of the inquiry, retired Supreme Court judge John Clarke QC, says the forum will examine legislation as it applied to Dr Haneef.

Among the invited speakers are former High Court chief justice Sir Gerard Brennan and Ross Ray QC from the Law Council of Australia.

Australia's counter-terrorism laws will be scrutinised at a public forum in Sydney today.

The inquiry is due to report back to the Federal Government by mid-November.

Quote: What happened to Dr Haneef is similar to what happened to all the alleged terrorists. Draconian laws - and people used as scapegoats - in the so called war on terror - which is state terror - that serves as propaganda to fuel the illegal and degrading wars - and crimes against humanity - perpetrated on Iraq and Afghanistan.

Where are the terrorists? There has to be terrorists. Otherwise the war on terror is fake. Like, no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq!!! None other than those used by the state terrorists, the coalition of the killing, in pre-emptive wars on foreign nations states.

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