General Throws PM Overboard

By Patrick Walters, National security editor The Australian
August 28, 2004
TWO high-ranking military officers have backed Mike Scrafton's account of the children overboard affair, revealing that the former defence bureaucrat told both of them in 2001 he had informed John Howard that the high-seas incident did not happen.
Major-General Roger Powell -- the army general who conducted the original military inquiry into the children overboard affair -- said he recalled Mr Scrafton saying in December 2001 that he had made it clear in several phone calls to the Prime Minister that there was no substance to the claims that children had been thrown overboard from the asylum-seeker vessel SievIV three months before.
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