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June 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda AAP
An alleged people smuggler has set up operations in Canberra after coming to Australia as a refugee, ABC TV’s Four Corners program says.
The story, broadcast on Monday, says six people-smuggling agents came to Australia on a boat in early 2010, posing as genuine asylum seekers.
The ABC says at least two of those agents are allegedly still conducting people smuggling operations in Australia.
One, described as “the head of the snake” and known as Captain Emad or Abu Khalid, is living in the nation’s capital, the report says.
Four Corners says Emad sent his wife, three adult children and their dependents to Australia on a boat ahead of him in 2009.
All were granted refugee status and live in taxpayer-funded public housing in different Canberra suburbs.
Four Corners interviewed other passengers from the ship the smugglers travelled on in January 2010.
They identified Emad and Yemeni man Abdullah Al Shariffi, a long associate of Emad.
The passengers said the Indonesian boat pilot left the ship early on and Emad, who trained in the navy, navigated the boat to Australia.
“After the Indonesian had gone, Abu Khalid, Captain Emad, took over the boat, the food, the driving, and the equipment,” a passenger known as Mustapha said.
Near Christmas Island, he lit flares to alert the Australian Navy.
Officials didn’t uncover the deception, listing the boat as suspected illegal entry vessel 96 with 43 passengers and no crew.
The smugglers on board, including Emad, soon became Australian residents.
“Those who were with him and had a history of smuggling get out (of immigration detention) in a short time … two-and-a-half or three months,” Mustapha said.
Four Corners confronted Emad at a shopping centre in the northern suburb of Gungahlin.
He refused to answer questions about whether he was running a people smuggling network, telling the ABC repeatedly he was “too busy”.
The discovery of Emad’s operations happened as part of an investigation into the fate of 97 asylum seekers on a boat from Indonesia which disappeared in late 2010.
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