But public disquiet about whether on terror, as in so many other areas, the judiciary is way out of touch with community sentiment will be exacerbated by the treatment of terror suspect Bilal Khazal, who was yesterday allowed to walk free from Silverwater jail, in Sydney, after posting $10,000 bail. He has been charged under new terror laws with inciting terrorism through a book and a website espousing the killing of "infidels" in Western countries, including Australia. Khazal, who belonged to the same Sydney prayer group that attracted French terror suspect Willie Brigitte, has already been convicted in absentia for involvement with a group that planted a massive car-bomb outside a McDonald's restaurant near Beirut, although Lebanese authorities have made no application to extradite him. He has been named by the CIA as an al-Qa'ida operative, and works for the Islamic Youth Movement, a distasteful organisation whose website warns of the "horrible torment" to be visited upon Jews.
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Another terror suspect, Izhar Ul-Haque, was granted bail in Sydney last week, but what makes Khazal's situation all the more bizarre is evidence tendered by federal police that he allegedly helped another suspected terrorist, Saleh Jamal, to skip the country while out on bail. Once again Mr Ruddock has told the DPP to go back for another look.