The Cost of Using Informers

There must be clear rules about using terrorists as informers. And close budgetary oversight is needed.

November 13, 2007

IT is easy to understand Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s anger when he heard that the people responsible for the Bali and Australian embassy bombings, who should have been locked up in jail, were out dining with Brig. Gen. (Police) Surya Darma. The invitation by the chief of the Antiterrorism Unit to the terrorists to break the fast at his home in South Jakarta the day before the Lebaran festivities was going too far.

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