Our family has been following this case with great interest, we are appalled
at the decision to let this shifty eyed muslim and his family enjoy the freedoms of this country which my father and many of his companions fought and died for, seem our leaders have forgotten about this, as we step closer to barbaric sharia law.

Criminals, welcome to NZ!, a tip flush your passport and papers on the aircraft to ensure your entry to NZ.

I have no real opinion on the case as I can barely remember the sketchy details. But whether the government made the wrong decision, as you hint, or the right one has absolutely no bearing on the Zaoui case.

If Zaoui, as a member of a democratically elected government, of which other members have been imprisoned and murder by the current military dictatorship, meets the classic definition of political refugee or the term has no meaning.

“He is certainly no Nelson Mandela or Aung San Suu Kyi – unless of course you share the view that Sharia law is a worthwhile social reform.”

Given he has given no support to a program of bombing civilians like Mr Mandela did I expect you are correct.

The social reforms for Algeria is something for Algerians to decide and they elected the FIS. A legal and democratic system based on Islamic tradition seems to work reasonably well in Iran, while the secular and nationalist ideology of Baathism was a grotesque failure.

That is a narrower definition of refugee than is required by UNHCR. Do you seriously believe the girl was less vulnerable than the grinning Zaoui?

He is certainly no Nelson Mandela or Aung San Suu Kyi – unless of course you share the view that Sharia law is a worthwhile social reform.

By your standards (govt persecution) I guess Tim Selwyn could claim refugee status somewhere.
Now if only Zaoui would file a false GST return: then he would discover one of the few laws that are pursued until death in NZ.

The reason is perfectly simple. That girl could be sent back to Sri Lanka without fear of government persecution.

You can not make the same claim of the current Terrorist (albeit Western friendly) regime in Algiers.

Zaoui’s tactics are those of the person who transfers all of their assets into an offshore trust before declaring bankruptcy (and who then waits out the bankruptcy period wearing a big smile while the creditors fume).

In the light of this clever, connected, smarmy guy’s success, anyone care to comment on what happened to this Sri Lankan girl last year? Sedated and sent back home: where were those immigration officers when Zaoui landed?

What happened to good old conservative scepticism. I am reminded of a discussion I had recently regarding the difference between Kingsley and Martin Amis and how despite Kingsley being a jurassic conservative I far preferred his iconoclastic scepticism to Martin’s meagre Tony Blair’s bottom kissing leftism.

Does one really expect the SIS to come out say “golly gee, we were absolutely wrong”? What they have done is taken a bunch of unconfirmed hearsay and rumour mashed together simply to cover their butts. This exercise could be done with virtually any exile from Algeria, Saudia Arabia or any of the other despotic regimes that are currently our friends.

“10. Mr Zaoui belonged to a social network in Belgium that included both the GIA
armourer and the treasurer. He admitted meeting with the person described as the “GIA
treasurer” regularly but says he stopped doing so when he realised the person had joined the
GIA. Mr Zaoui was arrested with the “GIA armourer” at the Swiss border, but says it was a
coincidence that they were travelling together in the same car. Mr Zaoui does not deny
knowing the person but he does deny being a leader or member of the network.”

“Belong to a social network”? excuse me what kind of half-a***** accusation is that?

“He admitted meeting with the person described as the “GIA
treasurer” regularly ”
Did he describe him as the GIA treasurer? No, note the use of the passive tense. The SIS feel so utterly confident about there accusation that ummmmmm….they neglected to name him.

Same goes with the GIA armourer. I mean if these people are such kingpins in a terrorist network why are they tootling across borders with such ease.

What a crock.

When conservatism loses its scepticism regarding secret societies (ie the NZSIS) they have lost the only positive feature of conservatism – a rigorous attack on state control and is instituitions.

This is selective, one sided reporting of interrogations where Zauoi has no standing to challange the basis of the claims.

“21. Mr Zaoui claims that he was not aware of any of his associates providing logistical
support to the armed movement in Algeria, including “G”. He agrees it is possible that they
did so without his knowledge.”

And frankly Zauoi is far more trustworthy than the dishonest, lying clowns of the NZSIS.

Martin Amis would be cheering them on til he was hoarse, Kingsley would be scowling in the corner.

Ahhh,

That must be why you are a twisted old hag.

“my instincts have proven to be mostly correct”

“I was born before WW11. )”

Ah, yea.

Old age and cunning eh !!

I was born before WW11. )

There is something about the mans demeanour that does not add up..

I trust my instincts..

that is a very thought-provoking statement. The EFB was motivated by the EB, after all, and we would never wish to offend our soon to be paymasters, the Chinese. Just shows how fickle the system is that will spend three million dollars of our cash to defend the freedom of one who has consorted with terorists and professes Sharia Law, but reduce the freedoms of the whole electorate in NZ, because the governement took exception to the ‘extreme’ views of the EB, or disagrees with ‘buying’ influence at election-time.