@DrewPavlou If he murdered 1 civilian for fun.... He should be in prison for life.
He murdered more than 1 civilian for fun and 21 of his military buddies made states against him.
Go phuck yourself.
Ben Roberts-Smith has never ONCE been accused of “raping Afghan underaged girls.”
Investigators spent literally tens of millions of dollars pouring over every single second of his time serving in Afghanistan, and this allegation has NEVER once been put forth - even by the most strident opponents of Ben Roberts-Smith.
Absolutely despicable lie that this leftist invented on the spot. And it already has 20,000 likes
@comebacklater90@DrewPavlou Have you read their accounts. No. Are you stating that we believe goat herders in Afghanistan, who have no issues lying through their teeth, Yes. And have you ever served - No. I have. And if you were in my platoon, you would be a RAT.
@ray501501@DrewPavlou So wait, the SASR members of BRS platoon/company that reported this initially before it was mews years ago are liars and not credible?
Very unAustralian of you
Fuckin moron
BREAKING: Left wing Australian journalists travelled to Afghanistan in 2024 to ask the Taliban to assist war crimes investigations against Australian soldiers including Ben Roberts-Smith.
Saturday Paper writer Michelle Jasmin Dimasi said the Taliban men she interviewed were very supportive.
My country is going fucking insane.
@comebacklater90@DrewPavlou Yeah, because they would be such creditable witnesses. Seriously, the only one that is dumb as dog shit is you - your rolling in it
@DrewPavlou So you are against evidence being presented by potential eye witnesses?
Fuck you are as dumb as dog shit.
For someone allegedly studying law, you would know better than most, that wye witnesses are key to any trial yet here you are having a cry cos witnesses want to testify 😂
🔥 BREAKING 🔥
There are reports that the ADF is reaching a breaking point over the prosecution of Ben Roberts-Smith, with troops at one barracks talking about laying down their arms in solidarity with our most celebrated VC winner of the 21st century.
Australian law professor and former DFAT advisor admits that Ben Roberts-Smith prosecution is political and not principled.
theage.com.au/national/is-au…
This POS is why the "Media" were at the Airport. He's a so-called "Journalist". Conducting Witch Hunts against Australian Heroes is Not Journalism. He's a cowardly Wezel who would run away from any real fight.
Andrew Hastie is many things: a former SAS soldier, a loving father and husband, and a fierce intellect.
He is a patriot committed to tackling the big problems our country faces, and I share many of his views on reducing immigration, restoring cheap energy, reviving Australian industry, and rebuilding national pride.
An individual of his abilities and principles has much to contribute on the front lines of our fight for the promise of Australia and to ensure that our best days lie ahead.
My colleague and friend is a great asset to the Liberal cause, with formidable strengths and an unwavering commitment to serving our country.
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I spent three hours reading Ben Roberts-Smith court documents this morning and found something pretty incredible.
TLDR: Previous court cases addressing Ben Roberts-Smith war crime allegations relied on the testimony of illiterate Afghan villagers who called him an infidel.
Part of the war crimes claims made against Ben Roberts-Smith relied upon the testimony of Afghan villagers who openly told Australian courts that they viewed Roberts-Smith and Australian soldiers as infidels.
Nine Media relied upon the testimony of three key Afghan witnesses in order to support the claim that Roberts-Smith executed a farmer named Ali Jan who he claimed was a Taliban spotter.
These men were illiterate subsistence villagers who expressed hatred for ''infidels'' including Australian soldiers during the trial.
Hanifa, pictured in court drawings wearing a green shawl, acknowledged directly that foreign soldiers were called ''infidels'' or ''kafir'' and that he did not like them.
He also confirmed that persons killed by soldiers were called ''martyrs'' and that he hated Australian soldiers for going near ''our women.''
He said: "If they are coming to our houses, go inside to our women, of course that's what we call them infidels."
Mangul, pictured in the court drawings wearing a blue shawl, expressed hatred of foreign soldiers and confirmed his view that they were infidels or kafir and that those they killed were martyrs.
He said he did not like the Taliban but still referred to Australian soldiers as infidels.
According to Daily Mail court reporting, when asked if he hated the soldiers who invaded his country and did not share his Islamic faith, Mangul said: ''Yes, it is like that.''
Hanifa also told the court that when the soldiers arrived by helicopter, he took a donkey from Ali Jan in an attempt to make them both appear to be nomads: ''I took one of the donkey from him thinking that we will look like nomads and the foreign forces will think that we are nomads.''
The actual mechanics of their testimony is incredible in and of itself.
Hanifa told the Federal Court that a man named ''Dr Sharif'' paid for his accommodation, food and transport for up to a year in support of his ability to testify against Roberts-Smith.
Dr Sharif worked for representatives of Nine newspapers as a fixer in Afghanistan.
Each Afghan key witness said that a local representative for Nine Media paid their family's living expenses since moving to Kandahar, then Kabul, earlier in the year.
According to Daily Mail court reporting, one key witness was accompanied by his wife and five children, another by his wife and six children and a third had 14 relatives with him.
And the logistics regarding court translation were incredible.
The only available court-certified Pashto interpreter lived in Ontario, Canada. When hearings commenced at 10:15am in Sydney, it was 8:15pm in Ontario and 4:45am in Kabul.
The Afghan witnesses therefore gave evidence about murders in a Taliban stronghold through a three-way international audiovisual link at dawn, interpreted by someone in a different hemisphere.
The court-certified Pashto interpreter conceded that he had difficulty translating from classical Pashto to the rural Pashto dialect the men spoke.
All three ultimately testified that they did not see the alleged shooting execution of Ali Jan, but two said they directly observed Roberts-Smith kick him off the cliff.
Roberts-Smith has always maintained that Ali Jan was a Taliban spotter in a village that was a Taliban stronghold.
It is a matter of historical fact that there was confirmed armed Taliban presence in the village of Darwan the day of the raid and that Roberts-Smith killed a confirmed armed Taliban militant during the wider operation.
Roberts-Smith was operating in the village of Darwan while searching for Hekmatullah - a Taliban sleeper agent in the Afghan National Army who massacred three Australian soldiers in cold blood as they prepared to sleep on their own base.
This massacre of Australian soldiers was technically a Taliban war crime. By enlisting in the Afghan National Army and wearing its uniform, Hekmatullah had presented himself as a co-belligerent fighting alongside Australian forces - not against them. This made him guilty of the war crime of perfidy.
Judge Besanko ultimately dismissed the infidel/kafir argument in a single paragraph for each witness, bracketed with the Dr Sharif financial support argument, writing:
''However, I do not consider (the infidel argument), or indeed the other general motive to lie advanced by the applicant of the sustenance (food and transportation) provided by the respondents through Dr Sharif, to be strong motives for Mohammed Hanifa to lie."
In my opinion, this represents an instance of the Australian legal system failing to grapple with the cultural gulf between Australian morals and Pashtunwali morals - raised in a deeply conservative Pashtun culture in which foreign soldiers are categorically viewed as enemies of the faith, living day to day in a Taliban stronghold village, I believe the hatred that these men had towards Australian soldiers means that their testimony cannot be fully trusted.
Roberts-Smith's barristers directly put it to Mangul that his religion permitted lying to infidels in some circumstances.
Mangul rejected the suggestion — but the mere fact that Roberts-Smith's own counsel felt compelled to raise the question in open court speaks to the cultural gulf I am describing.
It must be said that their testimony was not the only testimony against Roberts-Smith that day - their words were held up as corroborating the words of an Australian soldier, Person 4.
Besanko J and the Full Court both wrote that even setting aside the Afghan witnesses' evidence, Person 4's account stood.
That said, it feels deeply wrong to me that the Australian courts did ultimately choose to rely upon the evidence of men who openly admited they viewed Australian soldiers as infidels and subjects of contempt.
It feels like a particularly troubling example of misplaced institutional deference - treating the admission of deep religious hostility as insufficient to question the reliability of evidence.
These Afghan witnesses may now testify again in the criminal trial against Roberts-Smith where the standard of proof is ''beyond reasonable doubt'' rather than the civil ''balance of probabilities.''
The criminal standard of ''beyond reasonable doubt'' is substantially higher than the civil ''balance of probabilities'' standard at which the defamation findings were made.
It is hard to see their evidence alone passing muster at a criminal standard.
Australians attacking the AFP Comm as a DEI have no idea what she has achieved. Let the Bali Bombings investigation. Worked in the Solomon Is peace keeping force. Was AFP Asst Commissioner responsible for anti Terror unit. This is a person that has made policing her life!
@emaldee56 She’s not judging, she’s doing her job, just like the OSI, The author of Brereton Report, the 21 people who testified against him in his civil trial. Don’t make stupid accusations you don’t understand. I guess if it were a Muslim terrorist you’d be signing her praises.
@ClaireH23323908@BiereHQ@aus_pill Have you ever served - I have. Your the type that cheers for despicable people such as the Taliban purely because they benefit your own poltical beliefs
Ben Roberts-Smith
> 6’7, 250lbs (200cm, 110kg)
> Taliban described him as the ‘big soldier with blue eyes’
> Fought with crusader’s cross patch
> SASR, Victoria’s Cross recipient
@ClaireH23323908@BiereHQ@aus_pill In a fight you fight by the rules of your opponent - those cunts gave no quarter and as such deserve nothing in return.