| About 100 people are attending a public meeting in Melbourne where organisers are calling for charges against accused terrorist supporter Jack Thomas to be dropped. Thomas, 31, is accused of accepting money from Al Qaeda to return to Australia as a sleeper for the organisation. Commonwealth authorities today lost their bid to revoke his bail ahead of next week's committal hearing. His lawyer, Rob Stary, says the case against his client relies only on an interview undertaken without a lawyer present, after 100 hours of interrogation. Mr Stary says Thomas made a complaint to Australian consular officials that he had been subjected to torture by an unknown intelligence agent. "Now that's completely consistent with many other claims of the released detainees that they had been subjected to pretty rigorous and vigorous interrogation," he said. |