Grow Your Own Terrorists

What a crock of horse dung.

The latest Al Quaeda video aired on TVs around the world featured an Aussie soldier gone AWOL in Afghanistan and now presumably training terrorists. Breathless TV newsreaders said the terrorist "appeared" to have an Australian accent. But any real Aussies (like me, mate) knew as soon as we heard him that the man was either a fair dinkum Aussie or Meryl Frikkin' Streep.

Friends and acquaintances were quick to identify him as Mathew Stewart from Queensland's Sunshine Coast, an Aussie who had suffered psychological trauma while serving in East Timor, but whose problems had been unceremoniously dumped by the Australian Army.

PM John Howard tried to suggest that this bloke was speaking with a "British regional accent". Now Murdoch's "The Australian" newspaper reports that our government spy agency, ASIO, is still struggling to identify him.

In other words, if it's not Chrenkoff-style good news, it can't be true. Wishful thinking will protect us from terrrrrrsts!!!

The worst thing is that Stewart is reportedly only one of at least seven Aussie soldiers who have defected to the "terrorists".

Who is exporting terrorism to whom, eh?