Terror at the top

According to Bush, Blair and Howard, Saddam Hussein hosted al- Qa'ida in Iraq which was one reason we had to invade. On that basis then, bribes from the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) could have been transmitted from Saddam Hussein to al-Qa'ida and might well have been used to train people like Jack Thomas. The media frenzy over Thomas and the alleged threat he posed to Australians pales into insignificance when compared to the funding of Saddam's terrorist regime by the AWB and complicit Howard government ministers like Alexander Downer.

John Howard's "war on terror" hammers down on the small bit players but turns a blind eye to the "profit at all costs" de facto terrorist supporters in his own government and in Australia's corporate culture.

If we are to take the terrorist threat seriously then it's not turbans that should be targetted but smartly suited executives, government aparatchiks and Blair, Bush and Howard themselves, who are directly responsible through their military adventurism and unquestioning support for Israel, for the biggest boost to terrorism in history.