Legitimate questions linger over highly sensitive rescue mission | KnottMatthew
, the question lingers: is it worth the risk? Could Australian officials be killed or injured during the mission? How likely is it any of the Australians will return home as potential terrorists?
Other Australian family members of the women and children in the camps are too afraid to talk to the media, meaning Kamalle has become their de facto spokesman. Summarising his experience over recent years, he says: “The uncertainty has been debilitating. To have your own child and grandchildren in a war zone-type environment, detained for no reason, and you can’t help them, can’t get them to a point of safety, it’s been frustrating. One gets disillusioned with our leadership.
Peter Dutton oversaw the rescue of eight orphaned children from the camps in 2019 as home affairs minister Former home affairs minister Karen Andrews says the risks involved in repatriating Australians from Syria are too high.A briefing this week from ASIO director-general Mike Burgess failed to convince Dutton, who said: “I must say that I am more strongly of the view now that there is a very significant risk in bringing some of these people to our country that can’t be mitigated, frankly – not to the level that we would require to keep Australians safe.
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