*shakes head*
Aug. 23rd, 2007 01:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krazykitkatFrom SMH, also has link to the transcript of the second police interview.
THE supposedly damning internet chat-room conversation between Mohamed Haneef and his brother included an entreaty for Dr Haneef to leave his contact details with the British police before leaving Australia.
But this detail was omitted by the Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, when he went public with the discussion.
Mr Andrews used selective quotes from the chat-room talk last month to justify his decision to cancel Dr Haneef's visa, suggesting the doctor had suspicious motives for leaving Australia and may have had advance knowledge of the terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow.
The conversation between Dr Haneef and his brother Shuaib took place as the Gold Coast doctor waited for the courtesy van to take him to the airport on July 2.
The details have emerged only after the release of a second transcript of interview between Dr Haneef and Australian Federal Police investigators.
This shows that Dr Haneef's brother asked him, in Urdu, if he had been able to contact a Scotland Yard officer, Tony Walker. "I am not able to get at his phone," replied Dr Haneef in the translation presented to him by police. His brother then said: "Tell him the phone number and come."
Before leaving Brisbane, Dr Haneef tried on four occasions to contact the British police. But Shuaib Haneef's further urging of Dr Haneef to assist police with their inquiries was not mentioned by Mr Andrews.
Instead, he referred to Shuaib advising Dr Haneef: "Tell them you have to as you have a daughter born. Do not tell them anything else."
This was presented as meaning Dr Haneef had something to hide, but Mr Andrews did not mention the conversation took place after Dr Haneef made all his travel plans and repeatedly tried to call British police.
Mr Andrews also did not mention that Dr Haneef believed parts of the transcript - which reads as if it were spoken in broken English, not the conversation of two educated brothers in their mother tongue - had been mistranslated.
The transcript was released by Dr Haneef's lawyers yesterday to correct "continuing attempts being made to slander his name by innuendo and selective release of information by government and federal police spokespeople".
Andrews' selective quoting goes beyond misrepresentation.
THE supposedly damning internet chat-room conversation between Mohamed Haneef and his brother included an entreaty for Dr Haneef to leave his contact details with the British police before leaving Australia.
But this detail was omitted by the Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, when he went public with the discussion.
Mr Andrews used selective quotes from the chat-room talk last month to justify his decision to cancel Dr Haneef's visa, suggesting the doctor had suspicious motives for leaving Australia and may have had advance knowledge of the terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow.
The conversation between Dr Haneef and his brother Shuaib took place as the Gold Coast doctor waited for the courtesy van to take him to the airport on July 2.
The details have emerged only after the release of a second transcript of interview between Dr Haneef and Australian Federal Police investigators.
This shows that Dr Haneef's brother asked him, in Urdu, if he had been able to contact a Scotland Yard officer, Tony Walker. "I am not able to get at his phone," replied Dr Haneef in the translation presented to him by police. His brother then said: "Tell him the phone number and come."
Before leaving Brisbane, Dr Haneef tried on four occasions to contact the British police. But Shuaib Haneef's further urging of Dr Haneef to assist police with their inquiries was not mentioned by Mr Andrews.
Instead, he referred to Shuaib advising Dr Haneef: "Tell them you have to as you have a daughter born. Do not tell them anything else."
This was presented as meaning Dr Haneef had something to hide, but Mr Andrews did not mention the conversation took place after Dr Haneef made all his travel plans and repeatedly tried to call British police.
Mr Andrews also did not mention that Dr Haneef believed parts of the transcript - which reads as if it were spoken in broken English, not the conversation of two educated brothers in their mother tongue - had been mistranslated.
The transcript was released by Dr Haneef's lawyers yesterday to correct "continuing attempts being made to slander his name by innuendo and selective release of information by government and federal police spokespeople".
Andrews' selective quoting goes beyond misrepresentation.
