Why is Australia’s top war reporter John Martinkus not being used to cover the war in Afghanistan? SCOOP – Independent news – New Zealand’s premier news website www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1007/S00040.htm Top Australian War Reporter Sidelined?Monday, 5 July 2010, 12:37 pmOpinion: Sasha Uzunov Top Australian War Reporter Sidelined?By Sasha Uzunov No doubt many who have been watching the […]
www.heraldsun.com.au/news/as-toll-rises-in-afghanistan-so-does-spectre-of-vietnam/story-e6frf7jo-1225882478530 As toll rises in Afghanistan, so does spectre of Vietnamby Paul TooheyThe Herald Sun newspaper, Melbourne, Australia. June 22, 2010 WITH every step forward there is one step back. The Defence Department last week said special forces had dealt a “major blow” to Taliban insurgents in Kandahar, but then came yesterday’s grim news. Defence […]
POLICE CHIEF AND THOSE MEDIA LEAKS Victorian State (Australia) Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland is in the wars again over leaked information to the media.. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/how-overland-dodged-a-bullet/story-e6frg6z6-1225877203685 How Overland dodged a bullet by Hedley Thomas From: The Australian June 09, 2010 IN an article in The Age nine months ago a journalist wrote about a nugget […]
PART 3 – THE FIGHT AGAINST YUGOSLAV INTELLIGENCE IN AUSTRALIA Third part in a series on Yugoslav intelligence activities on Australian soil from the 1970s to the early 1990s. HOW COPS STOPPED FLOOD OF WEAPONS IN MELBOURNE By Sasha Uzunov In 2007 Paul O’Sullivan, the then head of the Australia Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) warned […]
SECOND part in a series on Yugoslav intelligence acitivities on Australian soil from the 1970s to the early 1990s. PATRIOT GAMES: ONE MAN’S FIGHT AGAINST UDBaBy Sasha Uzunov During the 1970s, 80s and early 90s, an intelligence war was waged by the communist regime of Yugoslavia to intimidate and silence Australia’s Macedonian migrant community but […]
On the left is the Australian Army Major in charge of the Commando raid in February 2009 in Afghanistan. This photo was taken in 2001. Copyright Sasha Uzunov. Exclusive – TEAM UZUNOV INVESTIGATION COMMANDOS RETURN MEDIA FIRE: “We were set up by Taliban”By Sasha Uzunov Sources close to The Australian Army’s elite reservist unit, 1 […]
LUKE LEON MEDIA (ABN: 91310556447) in association with Sasha Uzunov… TIMOR TOUR OF DUTY…now available on DVD….RATED M…Timor Tour Of Duty, which looks at the Indonesian military’s secret war against Australian and New Zealand troops and international peacekeepers in East Timor, received a special commendation Platinum Reel Award from the 2009 Nevada Film Festival. The […]
Post Script to my story: Scrutinising the media’s scrutiny of defence www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s2853029.htm22 March 2010In Search of Zahir Khan. The ABC TV’s Media Watch program did a take down on SBS TV’s Dateline story about the Afghan scandal as reported by Sophie McNeill. Absolutely hilarious stuff up. The identity of an Afghan man, Zahir Khan, was […]
www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=10227 Online Opinion – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate. Scrutinising the media’s scrutiny of defenceBy Sasha Uzunov – Tuesday, 30 March 2010 If the media scrutinise the tip of the spear in combat – recent Australian soldiers’ behaviour on the ground in the Afghan war – then they need to scrutinise the spear […]
In 1998, a year before the break out of conflict in East Timor, Lieutenant General Frank Hickling, then Chief of the Australian Army, wisely undid some of the damage caused by defence experts in their running down of the Army’s warfighting capability. It seems the Australian media have failed to scrutinise these “failed defence theorists” […]
