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World's Top Terrorist Hunter Visits Australia
MELBOURNE, July 17 (Bernama) --The world's leading terrorist hunter is on a secret mission in Sydney to investigate Australian links to global terrorism. French judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere and his team of anti-terror investigators arrived last week to hold talks with Australian security agents and terror suspects, according to The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.Judge Bruguiere will meet Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock tomorrow and counter-terrorism officers from the Australian Federal Police later in the week. The judge and his team want to examine Australian and Southeast Asian links to global terrorism. Judge Bruguiere, 60, has been at the forefront of the war on terror for 20 years and has spent the past 18 months interrogating Frenchman Willy Brigitte for his alleged involvement in the plot to bomb Sydney. Earlier last week, he was in Sydney meeting with the New South Wales state's counter-terrorism task force and the Department of Public Prosecutions to discuss the Brigitte investigation. According to the newspaper, Judge Bruguiere made a formal request to Australian authorities earlier this year to interrogate jailed Australian terrorist Jack Roche in a Perth jail, and Brigitte's alleged accomplice, Faheem Lodhi.Roche, who met Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1997, has offered to provide information to authorities and testify against alleged terrorists in foreign courts in return for a more lenient sentence. Dubbed by the French as Le Cowboy, Judge Bruguiere is best known for tracking down international terrorist Carlos the Jackal in 1994 and foiling an attack during the 1998 soccer World Cup in France. He is keen for other countries to adopt a French-style system, enabling authorities to hold a suspect for up to two years without charge. Posted by: Pappy 2005-07-18 |
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