HOLDING IS THE MAN! by Sasha Uzunov Victorian State Minister for Water and Tourism, Tim Holding, has survived a two day ordeal high up in the state’s snow fields after fears that he would not be found alive but the Minister is a former Australian Army Reservist with the elite 126 Signals Squardon, 1 Commando […]
10th anniverary of East Timor independence vote – 30 August 2009 ON LINE OPINION – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9366&page=0 Should Clinton get the Nobel Peace Prize for Timor?By Sasha Uzunov – Friday, 28 August 2009 August 30 will mark the tenth anniversary of East Timor’s successful vote for independence from Indonesia […]
VIETNAM VETERAN DAY – MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA 18 August 2009 – The Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Honouring those Australians who served or were killed whilst fighting in the Vietnam War (1962-72). This year is the first that all missing in action servicemen have been accounted for, after the recent discovery of the remains of […]
Sasha Uzunov (left), Scott Taylor (centre) and Stefan Nitoslawski (right), Talafar, Iraq, 2005. Nitoslawski films Taylor interviewing Iraqi Army General, Talafar, for Maziar Bahari’s documentary, Targets: Reporters in Iraq. Photo by Sasha Uzunov. IRANIAN FILM MAKER DETAINED by Sasha Uzunov News has come that Canadian-Iranian film maker and journalist Maziar Bahari has been detained by […]
THE ANZAC BARDSby Sasha UzunovOnline opinion,Tuesday, 11 August 2009http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9261&page=0 Fairfax newspapers self-appointed defence expert Paul Daley has a potential best selling, but controversial, book called Beersheba about World War I out on the market in time for Father’s Day. In doing so he has joined the pantheon of Anzac legend bards, of which legendary newsman […]
Scott Taylor (left) and Dr Yashir, local Iraqi-Turkoman leader (right). In 2005 Taylor went back to Talafar, Iraq after being held hostage in 2004 to retrace his steps for a Canadian TV documentary. Photo by Sasha Uzunov SCOTT TAYLOR ON CNN’S LARRY KING My colleague, Canadian journalist and war reporter Scott Taylor was speaking on […]
IN DEFENCE OF THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER REPORT: Overland hypocrisy on terror raids By Sasha Uzunov Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland is on the warpath over the publication of a story in The Australian newspaper on 4 August 2009 hours before a major raid on suspected Melbourne based terrorists who allegedly planned to attack Holsworthy […]
News that Holsworthy Army Barracks, Sydney, Australia was about to come under terrorist attack but plot foiled by the Australian security services and police forces… see link http://www.smh.com.au/national/alleged-attack-on-defence-base-imminent-scipione-20090804-e82b.html Read my 2006 artice in the Herald Sun newspaper which touches on the subject. There are still 2 high powered sniper rifles that were stolen from Holsworthy […]
An attempt to find common ground amongst Veterans in the recent debate about Australia’s role in the Vietnam War (1962-72)… The article below received enormous feedback on the www.onlineopinion.com.au website http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9187Gallipoli good, Vietnam badBy Sasha Uzunov – posted Tuesday, 21 July 2009 Don Tate, Vietnam Veteran and author of The War Within, has made explosive […]
Interesting story in the Herald Sun newspaper today over Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd… and his willingness to help to free a kidnapped Australian journalist in Somalia. Perhaps PM Rudd should be instructing his appointee as co-chair of the International Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Commission, Gareth Evans, to reveal any more information he knows about the […]
