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 […]
26 July will mark the 15th anniversary of the kidnapping and later murder of Melbourne backpacker David Wilson in Cambodia. Three months earlier Brisbane backpacker and model Kellie-Anne Wilkinson was also killed in Cambodia (1994). On 7 September 1994 Wilson, Englishman Mark Slater and Frenchman Jean-Michael Braquet were executed Could they have been saved? UNCOMFORTABLE […]
Australian journalist Sasha Uzunov dressed in local clothing at the monument for CIA operative Johnny “Mike” Spann killed during the Taliban prisoner uprising in November 2001. Qala i Jangi Fort, Mazar i Sharif, Northern Afghanistan 2007. Left to right: Sasha Uzunov, David Pugliese, General Dostum and Scott Taylor. Shiberghan, Northern Afghanistan 2007. DOSTUM IN THE […]
SHOOTING FROM THE LIP: Office of Police Integrity spinBy Sasha Uzunov Award-winning reporter Cameron Stewart together with Greg Sheridan, Mark Dodd and Patrick Walters form The Australian newspaper’s dream team of defence/national security experts but it seems Stewart has trouble understanding the basics of ballistics. Cameron “James Bond” Stewart who previously worked as a civilian […]
More to SAS-Dutch Afghan story…..Some big name journalists at Fairfax newspapers have a “special licence” or media sheriff’s badge to investigate but freelance journalists are not afforded the same privilege…. It is also called Selective Freedom to Scrutinise Syndrome (SFTSS).read on… Online opinion – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=9078&page=0 A special licence […]
TEAM UZUNOV 1JOEL FITZGIBBON 0 Australia’s Defence Minister, Joel Fitzgibbon resigned last night. TEAM UZUNOV was the first to break the story of the war within Defence Department and Fitzgibbon when an “outsider” Tim Holding was floated to act as a troubleshooter in Afghanistan. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8746&page=0At war with his own Defence DepartmentBy Sasha Uzunov – posted […]
Photo: Alpha Company, 4RAR (Cdo), Holsworthy Barracks parade background, marches off to deploy to East Timor in 2001. (Photo by Sasha Uzunov) BYE, BYE BATTALIONby Sasha “Uzi” Uzunov A very sad day for those of us who served as non-commando riflemen with Australian army unit, The 4th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment – Commando – […]
ExclusiveDEFENCE SAYS TALIBAN DIDN’T MAKE CRANK CALLBy Sasha Uzunovcopyright 2009 Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been warned as a security measure not leave personal mail, postcards or any other correspondence or emails unsecured or not properly disposed of after it was allegedly falling into the hands of the Taliban terrorists, and used in psychological […]
Scott Taylor – Canada’s number one war reporter. (above) Chronicle Herald newspaper (Canada) http://thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/1118902.html Time for our soldiers to talk the talk in Afghanistan By SCOTT TAYLOR On TargetMon. Apr 27 – 6:00 AMDURING MY LAST unembedded tour in Afghanistan, I teamed up with Australian war correspondent Sasha Uzunov. Like me, Uzunov is a former […]
ONLINE OPINION – Australia’s e-journal of social and political debatewww.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8805 Vietnam nightmare ends with newsman’s deathBy Sasha Uzunov – Friday, 24 April 2009Legendary newsman John Sorell, aged 72, has died. Sorell made his name with the infamous and inaccurate Vietnam war crime story in 1968. It was a story that was to unfairly plague and […]
