{"id":317046,"date":"2017-07-12T22:29:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T21:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/australia-unanswered-questions-over-police-killing-of-melbourne-teenager\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T22:29:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T21:29:50","slug":"australia-unanswered-questions-over-police-killing-of-melbourne-teenager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/australia-unanswered-questions-over-police-killing-of-melbourne-teenager\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia: Unanswered questions over police killing of Melbourne teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Australia: Unanswered questions over police killing of Melbourne teenager<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Will Morrow<br \/>\n    <br \/>12 July 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The inquest into the death of Numan Haider, a working-class teenager shot by police on September 23, 2014, has raised further questions about his relations with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).<\/p>\n<p>Haider, 18, the son of Afghan migrants, was shot in the head at point-blank range in a police station parking lot in suburban Melbourne after he allegedly attacked two police officers with a knife. For reasons that have never been explained, the two Joint Counter Terrorism taskforce agents arranged to meet Haider there that evening.<\/p>\n<p>The media and political establishment seized on Haider\u2019s death to fuel a scare campaign about \u201clone wolf\u201d terrorist attacks. Police initially claimed they asked to meet Haider over a \u201croutine matter.\u201d It later emerged that the teenager was closely monitored by ASIO over several months.<\/p>\n<p>The coronial inquest, which is yet to release any findings, relies upon the police and intelligence agencies to provide the evidence, which is limited, given that it could also be used to investigate their own conduct. Even so, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull\u2019s government is determined to prevent light being shed on the agencies\u2019 relations with Haider.<\/p>\n<p> The <em>Herald Sun<\/em> reported on May 23 that the government \u201cis believed to be so anxious about the inquest findings it has written, on behalf of ASIO and the AFP [Australian Federal Police], to Coroner John Olle asking for an advance copy of his report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Evidence has emerged that Haider may have been an ASIO informant when he was killed. The <em>Herald Sun<\/em> reported that \u201ccall charge records apparently show [Haider] made a call to an ASIO agent\u2019s phone after he accidentally stabbed a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/07\/12\/haid-j12.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Australia: Unanswered questions over police killing of Melbourne teenager By Will Morrow 12 July 2017 The inquest into the death of Numan Haider, a working-class teenager shot by police on September 23, 2014, has raised further questions about his relations with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). Haider, 18, the son of Afghan migrants, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-317046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}