WELFARE payments to more than a dozen suspected jihadists have been axed to stop Australian taxpayers’ money being used to finance terrorist outrages in Iraq and Syria. But the Federal Government refuses to say whether an audit has guaranteed the cancellation of all welfare to Australians suspected of joining the Islamic State. Wanted terrorist Khaled Sharrouf, who was photographed executing Iraqi soldiers and whose young son was photographed holding a soldier’s severed head, received a $383-a-week disability support pension for several months. It lapsed after he left Australia on his brother’s passport. An estimated 150 Australians have travelled to Iraqi and Syrian war zones. “The Abbott Government has already cancelled welfare payments for a number of individuals who are overseas,” a spokesman for Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews told the Herald Sun. m.dailytelegraph.au/news/national/suspected-jihadists-have-welfare-payments-cut-to-stop-australia-taxes-financing-terror/story-fni0xqrc-1227023610013
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:44:40 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015