Australian soldiers Sapper James Martin, Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic and Private Robert Poate were killed as they played cards at a patrol base in Afghanistan in August 2012. (Photograph: Australian Defence Force)
Father of Australian soldier, Robert Poate (right) murdered by an Afghani traitor as he played cards, calls out dishonest media over his son’s killer and how Afghani authorities ignored the killer’s court imposed death sentence and released him from jail
By Dr Dan Mealey, Afghanistan veteran
Next month we will witness the landmark defamation appeal of Ben Roberts-Smith VC, MG against Fairfax Media Publications et al, playing out in a media that has consistently withheld critical context, while inserting a misrepresentation of the facts. This is happening with a breathtaking silence of ADF commanders, whose careerism is more important than the welfare and rights of their own soldiers.
This is a case that affects all of us. CPL Roberts-Smith’s predicament highlights a justice system that is presently failing many good Australians facing vexatious allegations. Put simply, our investigators, prosecutors and judicators are leaning into a “public interest” and wokeism driven by journalists whose unbalanced reporting is not being scrutinised by fellow-journalists too afraid of being cancelled. And lest we forget that good journalists have actually been cancelled, in the promotion of the truth.
The truth cannot be suppressed however, and whether in his appeal, in the High Court, or beyond, the machinations of CPL Roberts-Smith’s detractors will be exposed.
Critical to his case is the context provided below (with permission) by Hugh Poate, father of Private Robert Poate, killed by murderous traitor Hekmatullah.
I leave you with what Hugh has to say… I ask you please to share widely, to balance a “public interest” fuelled by uninformed journalists who control the whole narrative.
Father of son shot in cold blood by Afghani insurgent defends Ben Roberts Smith
By Hugh Poate | Author of ACT Book of the Year 2022 Award, “Failures of Command: The Death of Private Robert Poate.”
Ben Roberts-Smith put his life on the line for this country and was awarded the Medal of Gallantry and the Victoria Cross for exceptional bravery. The citations for each of these bravery awards are on display at the AWM for all Australians to read, uninfluenced by negative media reports.
murdered soldier Private
Robert Poate
There are two particular journalists presently presenting themselves as journalist demigods for supposedly exposing the most highly decorated Australian soldier of the Afghanistan war for alleged war crimes, although he has neither been charged nor convicted of any war crimes. The media reports by these journalists that initiated the defamation case brought by BRS appear to have an obvious desire to bring down a tall poppy to elevate their own careers in journalism.
However, the reports by these journalists and their so-called mastheads have omitted the following ‘facts’ that would provide proper balance and context.
The three media outlets involved in this case have mentioned that BRS and other SASR soldiers were at Dawan following the “killing” of three Australian soldiers. They have deliberately failed to mention that a rogue Afghan National Army soldier known as Hekmatullah “murdered” the three Australian soldiers, one of whom was our son, Private Robert Poate.
as he played cards
This is a war crime”. Some of the alleged breaches in the rules of armed conflict by BRS and other SASR soldiers occurred at Darwan and other places during the hunt for Hekmatullah.
It should also be noted that Hekmatullah was subsequently captured and tried in the Afghan Supreme court on four offences — the murder of three Australian soldiers, the wounding of two, treason and membership of a terrorist organisation (the Taliban). He proudly confessed to all charges and was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court. Hekmatullah has been convicted in a court of law for war crimes. Despite frequent requests by the three families to Australian Ministers for Defence and Ministers for Foreign Affairs to apply diplomatic pressure for Hekmatullah’s sentence to be carried out, they refused.
During the peace negotiation process between the Americans and the Taliban, during which neither Australia nor any other of the 50 ISAF countries were invited to participate, the Americans agreed on behalf of the rest of the world (in typical American style) to release all Taliban prisoners, including Hekmatullah.
Hekmatullah murdered three Australian
soldiers in cold blood, yet
MSM are going after war hero
Ben Roberts Smith
Hekmatullah is still a free man today being treated as a hero by the Taliban for killing infidels — Australian soldiers who put their lives on the line for the country and lost their lives from a most heinous war crime. Hekmatullah has told The Australian journalist Jeremy Kelly that he would do the same again.
Again, the three families wrote to the Ministers for Defence and DFAT whose late response was to ask that Hekmatullah remain in custody. Hekmatullah’s sentence was not a custodial sentence, he had been sentenced to death.
When the Americans killed Zawahiri in 2022 in a drone strike for his part in planning the Twin Towers attacks by Al Qaeda, it was known that Hekmatullah lived only 50 metres away from Zawahiri. But the Americans did not strike Hekmatullah — he had not killed any Americans! None of this information has been reported to provide context and balance in reports of the BRS defamation case.
Lying main stream media causing military suicides
It has also been conveniently omitted in all reporting by these journalists that the Taliban did not comply with the rules of armed conflict set out in the Geneva Conventions. Furthermore, the Taliban did not comply with the Ottawa Treaty which prohibits the use of anti-personnel mines such as IED’s which were used extensively by the Taliban. Hundreds of Australians and other Western soldiers were killed, dismembered and turned into mincemeat by IED’s.
The families of all 41 of our brave soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan and the 261 who were wounded have been forgotten by the media, the ADF and successive Governments. Additionally, more than 1,640 veterans of this war, including SASR veterans, have since taken their own lives. More are likely to do so as a result of the unbalanced media reporting. These facts have been conveniently disregarded by these journalists, none of whom have put their lives on the line in uniform. Their media reporting has been, and continues to be, grossly unbalanced, and for this they have presented with Walkley awards by other journalists.
Pat from Victoria,
Right on the money. This could have happened to me and my mates and any that were in the wrong place 58 to 52 years ago on the same continent sent by the same criminal group. The only difference being in my time most were conscripted.
The idiot journo who started this nonsense obviously doesn’t know what “taqqiya” is or its implication.
Roberts Smith and other SAS members were hunting for this Muslim murderer when they allegedly killed an unconnected Afghan. We will never know the real truth because MSM has sullied the ADF sufficiently to obfuscate the facts.Ed
Yeah we picked up on the Twin Towers mistake as well. However the essence of the story is far too important to ignore. Ed
Nicely explained and glad you mentioned the ABC. Ed
Nice Claude. Ed
Not when playing cards in the barracks.Ed
Well said ronyryan43… also agree with Patrick, Australia should not have been there, nor involved in any of the other fake wars started by the US. They were the occupying military in Afghanistan and enemies of the Taliban.
Not sure what all that had to do with Roberts, but I believe he is just the fall guy for the top brass!
David .. the Taliban were trying to lower opium crops and were succeeding, but after the US came and crops increased 3000%… I understand the crops have gone right down again now that they are gone.
The Australians killed in this incident were not murdered.
The Australians killed in this incident were armed combatants who willingly participated in the foreign military occupation of Afghanistan.
The Australian soldiers were killed by an Afghan resisting the occupation. The Afghans have a right to resist a military occupation they did not support.
As sad as it is, the Australian soldiers were casualties of war. They were not murdered anymore that any of the Afghan combatants were murdered by Australian soldiers.
If you’re a combatant and you get killed by the enemy that is war.
Claude Ramains said – “Thousands of people have been injured, killed and their lives ruined…”
Actually, MILLIONS, in each separate category, TENS of MILLIONS in the last.
And it hasn’t stopped.
Just lately, no less than 1.1 MILLION Ukrainians have been sacrificed on the altar of American avarice and greed in the endless quest to conquer Russia – with many hundred thousand more to come, apparently.
And that’s not counting the millions of wounded or the TENS of millions of displaced refugees. And God forbid anyone tally up the casualties of the child trafficking and organ harvesting industries in Ukraine alone over the past several years. As some have rightly questioned, how is it possible Zelensky is even still ALIVE, let alone still strutting around the international stage?
And then there’s the Middle East cauldron starting up all over again. This might be Amerikka’s last big adventure, but if so, we can be assured they’ll go out with a bang.
And they wonder why nobody wants to join the ADF.
But they have the nerve to charge them with war crimes that our government itself is guilty of.
From John Howard onwards, however long our men have been in Iraq and Afghanistan, the whole thing was a huge lie.
A war crime that destroyed several countries.
We should never have been there.
There were no weapons of mass destruction.
That was a known lie.
Osama Bin Laden was killed over
1o years ago ( if we believe the msm account) and we were still there. WHY?!!!
Thousands of people have been injured, killed and their lives ruined, their countries destroyed and for what?
Did anyone win anything?
No!
Just huge war crimes by the lying leaders of our countries.
It’s them who should be on trial.
Not these soldiers.
In terms of the Gook jihadis – Al-CIAda and ISIS (Israeli Secret Intelligence Service) are the ZOGs, Hezbollah is the Soviet-Iran asset, Hamas is the Israeli asset.
I don’t know what happened in the battlefield, so I will not comment on this.
However, I do know the Zionist/Israel/US CIA were responsible for 9/11 and the objective is becoming apparent now. Islam had nothing to do with it. And David is wrong about the heroin. Yes, the CIA Golden Triangle operation was switched to Afghanistan but the Taliban refused to play ball; hence the war. We were never there to promote women’s rights and we were most certainly not there to capture Osama bin Laden, who died of renal failure in 2001.
The Taliban offered to hand over bin Laden on the condition he was to face an international court and that evidence of his participation in 9/11 was presented. The US refused both conditions. This would have exposed to the world that al Quaeda was a CIA construct.
What I have no proof of, but believe all the same, is that the VC soldier was a victim of a Government strategy to destroy Australia’s ADF. The ABC is a key player in this. To my mind the entire exercise is one of Treason but there will never be a trial until the US is destroyed, expelled from Australia, democracy is restored, the crooked judiciary hanged, enabling a People’s Courts to then try our leading suspects. If I were Angus Campbell, I would be perusing the holiday destinations on the other side of the world and buying a one way ticket. A lot of ADF officers should join him. I am not the only Aussie civilian who knows they discussed shooting Australian civilians as far back as 1993.
Afghanistan is just another war zone in the SIG wars for the formation of one Eurasia – which will be the centrepiece of the real Jew world order and its Soviet / Islam sistema for the goy plantation.
“The codename of this operation is ‘SIG’ (Sionistskiye Gosudarstva, or ‘Zionist Governments’.” —Soviet defector Ion Mihai Pacepa. That is to say Islamic front governments controlled by the KGB/FSB and working with the top Zionists (as all the Islamics do) to get it on for WW3 : Islam vs evil, corrupt ZOG West – led by uber- emetic, anti-semitic cartoon Yuval Harari. (Wouldn’t you love to see the program Yuval wrote for his sexbot?)
Afghanistan is now well and truly integrated into the sistema – big bros with Xi and the whole syndicate.
The same Agenda drives the Marxist demonization of the toxic, white male in ZOG West. Special forces and distinguished members of Western militaries will undoubtedly be singled out by the Long March of Subversion for demonization as war criminals and demoralisation in the show trials as ‘enemies of the people.’
This is where the high T blokes have to get the Mind Game of the cognito-sphere and its battlespace. These are the blokes who will never paint their nails pink for LBGTQ+ Day or learn to walk in high heels like Carebear Campbell. The same Revolution that is planting IEDs in places like Afghanistan is organising their show trials here.
Whiteboyz
Amnesty finished two years ago .All those complicit in this genocide,chemists, doctors , nurses, judiciary,police ,media, religious etc , ALL will be brought to justice. Patience is the key.
We train soldiers to be killers and then we send them off to war and award them accolades and honors for the killings they do and as we have demanded of them. It sucks that BRS is being castigated for the work he did or the VC he deserved to get for his bravery, or that he is being hounded by the Press because sensationalism sells papers, not being a VC hero – I read that Murdoch had given up and had agreed to pay BRS whatever his case demanded, for his deformation – has something changed.
Wish we had a lot more soldiers like BRS
As the Vietnam War was winding down, it was decided by the PTB in the City of London, to move the Crown’s cash crop of Opium from the Golden Triangle to Afghanistan. Hence the need for Western military to supervise the transfer. The Taliban, quite rightly, wanted a share of the moolah. When this didn’t eventuate, they got stroppy.
As usual, the Australian Military were included in the fight against the Taliban to ensure the cash crop got to market.
Air America offered me a lot of money to fly the guns and gold in and the tonnes of dope out of the Golden Triangle before the transfer.
Our government and the senior military were privy to these arrangements and need to be held to account
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Hate to have to say it, folks, but it has to be said.
WTF were Australian soldiers doing in Afghanistan in the first place?
An assertion by Mr. Poate is VERY telling…
“When the Americans killed Zawahiri in 2022 in a drone strike for his part in planning the Twin Towers attacks by Al Qaeda…”
Seriously?
Hook, line & sinker, folks. The entire BS 11 September 2001 Games of Empire False Flag is STILL apparently accepted by Private Poate’s dad as GOSPEL TRUTH. It STILL hasn’t dawned on him that the ENTIRE “War on Terror” campaign was just a MANUFACTURED conflict to justify Amerikka’s reassertion of Global Hegemony, with the PREPLANNED conquest and destruction of SEVEN COUNTRIES in FIVE YEARS firmly in their sights.
It’s sadly understandable why someone like Mr. Poate might be PHYSICALLY INCAPABLE of accepting what now, two decades later, is the bleedingly obvious truth – ALL of those lives on BOTH SIDES of the FAKE “War on Terror” were sacrificed on the altar of American hubris and greed, a FUTILE atempt to prop up the collapsing American Empire.
So let’s all take a big deep breath and STEP BACK from the precipice to take in the WIDER VIEW, and keep some sanity and CONTEXT in our considerations.
Let’s keep in mind that ALL the soldiers involved in this controversy – selfless and heroic and bonza guys that they were and ARE – were all just PAWNS in the savagery of Empire. I’d wager that, placed in the SAME circumstances as this fellow Hekmatullah, a great many true-blue red-blooded Australians would be sorely tempted to do something SIMILAR to an occupying Imperial invader.
Because from Afghanistan’s perspective, THEY were invaded and occupied, and people like Hekmatullah were the RESISTANCE. And just BTW, they SUCCEEDED in kicking the Americans’ self-sanctifying Imperial arses OUT of their country.
So let’s NOT demonize the Afghanis or Afghanistan. But for the Grace of God, there goes Australia.
Far better to recognise that the enemy of the Australian people is already firmly entrenched WITHIN our borders, in every nook and cranny of the corporate edifice masquerading as EVERY level of our “government” and yes, also our MILITARY command.
And, just BTW, also in our foreign-owned corporate media, which employs STENOGRAPHERS and OPPORTUNISTS in lieu of investigative reporters, ever ready to push the CORPORATE EMPIRE’S agenda & lies to advance their own miserable careers.
So by all means, let’s go after the lowlife arseholes in our fake “government” and military heirarchy and corporate media RIGHT HERE in Australia – but leave the poor Afghanis out of it.
Not sure what the bastard that murdered three young men playing cards has to do with Ben’s case. As much as I pray Ben is proven innocent I do believe it is VERY important we shut our cake holes on this one. I do believe it will be impossible to hide the absolute truth on this one no matter what the result .
I am sure that many journalists are possessed. They seem to get off on destroying people’s lives through their fake reports. They should all stand trial in the Nuremberg 2 trials that are to come over the covid propaganda that has caused so many people all around the world to die. The truthful reporters who exposed that the covid jab was a suicide shot have all been silenced, and the liars have all be given loudspeakers. We are seeing the same thing here. I feel so sorry for the military personel who have died or are suiciding. The world is a mess at the moment.
The liars and perpetrators need to go to hell, literally.