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Deported from Kurdistan, placed under
control order in Australia
30.3.2007
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Australian Authorities have indicated they will keep
a close watch on an Australian Kurd who has returned
home after being held in Kurdistan (Iraq) on
suspicion of involvement with insurgents.
March 30, 2007
Australia, -- The Sydney man Ahmed Jamal may be the
second Australian to have a control order imposed on
him, following his arrival home yesterday after
spending 2½ years in an Kurdistani prison.
He is being deported from Kurdistan after the
Australian government agreed to a number of
conditions from the Kurds relating to Mr Jamal's
return
Mr Jamal a spray painter Ahmed Jamal, 24 was
detained in September 2004 by Kurdish forces in
Sulaimaniyah in the Kurdistan region (Iraq), judged
a security risk, suspected of coming to the country
to join anti-American insurgents and being a member
of al-Qaeda.
He was never charged and claimed he was tortured
upon his capture, prompting him to make false
admissions.
Arriving early yesterday at Sydney Airport, a drawn
and exhausted Mr Jamal was met with a warm embrace
from his brother, Ali. He declined to talk to
waiting media.
Mr Jamal has been of intense interest to ASIO for a
number of years, at times being refused permission
to travel, as well as being turned away from his
ancestral homeland, Jordan, on the advice of
Australian security agencies.
He has said that he travelled to Iraq to find a
bride after making the pilgrimage to Mecca.
Australian Federal Police and their counterparts in
the NSW police have been working to build a brief of
evidence against Mr Jamal to prosecute him under
domestic counter-terrorism laws. One security source
said it was proving difficult, not least because he
left for Iraq before the new counter-terrorism
measures were introduced.
The measures strengthened laws making it an offence
to join forces opposed to Australians on deployment.
Any confessions to Kurdish authorities were also
unlikely to be admissible in an Australian court.
The alternative being actively considered, according
to security sources, is to place a control order on
Mr Jamal restricting his travel and limiting his
means of communication to phones and computers being
monitored by intelligence and police
officers.
AAP
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