Noori was already 18 in 2004, when the war in Afghanistan between NATO troops and the Taliban was escalating.
But instead of fighting in his country, he fled to Australia along with his brothers, sister and parents.
The Noori family had hit the jackpot as refugees in the world’s most generous per-capita resettlement program, with free healthcare, education, income support and housing in suburban Melbourne.
As Noori made his home in our peaceful country, young Australians were dying in his country, trying to liberate it from the Taliban he had escaped.
In 2007, when Noori was 21 and had gained full citizenship, three Australian soldiers were killed in Oruzgan province: Private Luke Worsley, 26, SASR Sergeant Matthew Locke, 33, and Trooper David Pearce,
Police allege that last week Saeed Noori repaid Australia’s kindness by driving an SUV into pedestrians at a busy intersection on Melbourne’s Flinders St, hospitalising 19 people, aged from four to 83.
Let’s call terrorism what it is
Miranda Devine, News Corp Australia
https://www.perthnow.com.au/opinion...hat-it-is-ng-075aec9c751e7e142f352a8fce5542e3