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June 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Six Australians are wanted by police in Peru in connection with the death of a concierge.
FEDERAL police have arrested a man held at the Inverbrackie detention centre in Adelaide on people smuggling charges.
Police allege that before his arrival in Australia in January this year, Ewaz Ali Rezaie was a ”key player” in a smuggling syndicate to send boats to Australia.
Rezaie, 45, originally from Afghanistan, joins 14 other alleged people smugglers now before the courts.
The opposition sought to link the latest arrest to the controversy surrounding Ali al-Abassi, known as ”Captain Emad”, who fled Australia after being accused of people smuggling by ABC television.
Earlier, Coalition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison again pressed the government over the Captain Emad case in Parliament, demanding to know why his visa had not been cancelled before departing.
But Immigration Minister Chris Bowen dismissed the attacks, saying there was a process that must be followed.
Mr Bowen has flagged that Captain Emad must show cause – should he return to Australia – why his visa should not be cancelled. ”When a visa cancellation process is begun, it is a very serious matter, and it must be handled with due consideration of the facts and the case in hand,” Mr Bowen said.
”There is a right way and a wrong way to cancel a visa … and if you cancel it the wrong way, not only can the visa be reinstated but the taxpayers of Australia can be required to pay very substantial compensation.”
Federal police said they had arrested Rezaie on Tuesday following an investigation into his activities before arriving in Australia. If convicted, he faces 10 years’ imprisonment and a $110,000 fine.
Meanwhile, the government said two boats had been intercepted off Christmas Island, one with 52 people on board and the other carrying 69 passengers.
More than 4500 people have arrived on boats so far this year, most at Christmas Island or Ashmore Island, but with four boats arriving at the far-flung Indian Ocean territory Cocos Island in recent weeks.
Locals have complained the small Australian territory is struggling to cope with the extra people on the island, having to turn the local pub into a temporary shelter. Treasurer Wayne Swan said the government had no plans to build a detention centre on Cocos Island but that people would have to be accommodated for a short time.
Meanwhile, the acting Commonwealth and Immigration Ombudsman, Alison Larkins, has expressed concern that ASIO took nearly two years to provide a security clearance to a woman who was in detention with her three children and had been found to be a refugee.
The Ombudsman’s report showed that immigration officials ”escalated” the need for a security clearance on five occasions. Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said the case highlighted the need for time limits on security assessments and detention. With MICHAEL GORDON
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