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| Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security

Footnotes

Chapter 1 Introduction

[1]       The Statement of Reasons is in Submission No.1 at Appendix B.

[2]       Transcript, private hearing 18 June 2007, p. 10.

[3]       During the course of this enquiry, the Committee secretariat was contacted by a staff member in the Chief Minister’s Department of the Northern Territory government. The caller noted that because the Attorney-General’s Department had sent the letter asking for comments about the relisting to the NT Attorney rather than to the Chief Minister, the letter did not enter the consultative process as it would have done if it had been sent to the Chief Minister.  Therefore, the Chief Minister did not know of the relisting until she received the Committee’s letter inviting submissions.  It was then too late to respond to the Attorney-General if the Chief Minister so wished.  On this occasion, the Chief Minister’s office did not have any comments to make on the relisting, however the Chief Minister’s office noted that it would be preferable if, as agreed under the Inter –Governmental Agreement on Counter-terrorism Laws, future notification of listings and relistings could be sent to the Chief Minister.

[4]       Dr Patrick Emerton, Submission No.5.

Chapter 2 The relisting of Hizballah’s ESO

[1]       Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, Review of the relisting of ASG, JuA, GIA and GSPC, February 2007, p. 4.

[2]       Paragraphs 102.1(2) (a) and (b) of the Criminal Code.

[3]       Confidential exhibit, ASIO, tabled 1 February 2005.

[4]       Deeb, L, July 2006, ‘Hizballah: A Primer’, www.merip.org/mero/mero073106.html

[5]       Associate Professor R. Hogg, Submission No.3.

[6]       Statement of Reasons, p 1.

[7]       Dr Patrick Emerton, Submission No.5. 

[8]       http://jtic.janes.com/JDIC/JTIC/ (accessible by subscription)

[9]       http://jtic.janes.com/JDIC/JTIC/

[10]     Transcript classified hearing, 18 June 2007, p. 3. 

[11]     In its Middle East Report No.59 the International Crisis Group reported that in Lebanon 1,191 people (civilians, as well as armed fighters) were killed, several thousand were injured and up to one million were displaced as a result of the 2006 conflict.  In Israel, 43 civilians were killed and tens of thousands were displaced. 

[12]     http://jtic.janes.com/JDIC/JTIC/

[13]     Blanford, N, Middle East Report Online: Hizballah in the Firing Line, April 2003, at: www.merip.org/mero/mero042803.html

[14]     Submission No.4, Classified Secret.

[15]     http://jtic.janes.com/JDIC/JTIC/

[16]     Statement of Reasons, p 2.

[17]     http://jtic.janes.com/JDIC/JTIC/

[18]     Statement of Reasons, p 1.

[19]     Muqawama is resistance against a formidable occupier, i.e. Israel. 

[20]     El-Hokayem, E. ‘Hizballah and Syria: Outgrowing the Proxy Relationship’, The Washington Quarterly, Spring 2007, The Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Volume 30:2, p 45.

[21]     http://www.crisisgroup.org/

[22]     Statement of Reasons, p 1.

[23]     http://jtic.janes.com/JDIC/JTIC/

[24]     International Crisis Group: ‘Israel/Hizbollah/Lebanon: Avoiding Renewed Conflict’ Middle East Report No.59, 1 November 2006, P 1.

[25]     http://jtic.janes.com/JDIC/JTIC/

[26]     http://jtic.janes.com/JDIC/JTIC/

[27]     Transcript classified hearing, 18 June 2007.

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