I wonder how much "unravelling" is going to occur at the Australian end of the Bush fiasco? A few more problems like the Australian Wheat Board's Bribes to Saddam, David Hicks' mistreatment "on Rumsfeld's Watch", and the "loopholing" of US foreign aid funds through Australian (specifically the Adelaide offices of Halliburton/KBR) bookwork, could show a level of inter-cabinet complicity that runs much deeper than the Ausmin meeting in Adelaide.

I wonder if Rupert Murdoch, "back home" this week to open his new SA Headquarters, will hang around Adelaide for another day to shake hands with Rummy?

These, to me, are pieces of the puzzle that is being worked on here.

The Greens have started the ball rolling in a media release today () calling for Rumsfeld to release David Hicks. Senator Christine Milne said that:

"Secretary Rumsfeld's visit to Australia is the ideal time for the United States to announce David Hicks' repatriation. I am appalled that our own Prime Minister, unlike leaders of the UK, Turkey, Greece, Kuwait and many other countries, still thinks David Hicks should be tried in a foreign court."

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Back in June, during the same week that Halliburton's contract to reconstruct the Guantanamo prison was announced, this is what Donald Rumsfeld had to say:

"The United States government, let alone the U.S. military, does not want to be in the position of holding suspected terrorists any longer than is absolutely necessary".

Surely, while Mr Rumsfeld is inspecting his South Australian handiwork, he could "magnanimously" free his hostage?/

I haven't seen noted in any Rumsfeld-related media thatcentral Adelaide train station is right next to the hotel that Rummy is staying in, and also a stone's throw from our Parliament House.... the station should be safe enough - we took out the rubbish bins months ago. 

Counterterrorism expert Clive Williams from earlier this year:

"A facet of past bombings is that terrorists tend to go for a "peak-hour" high casualty count, and this doesn't readily present itself in Adelaide like it does in the Eastern states."

The protest is scheduled for around four o'clock.

First pulished on Margo Kingston's Webdiary