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Kevin Rudd’s suspicious absence from public life in 2012 is subject to an investigation by The Australian newspaper after news surfaced this week of some alleged dirty dealings.
The Daily Telegraph claimed today that a think tank related to Mr Rudd somehow received funds from deceased pedophile financier Jeffery Epstien – which is something Kevin says is “fucked if true”.
In addition to that, the news conglomerate reported today that Kevin Rudd was in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year and might be patient zero for the coronavirus.
But this afternoon, The Australian broke the news that in 2012, Mr Rudd was in Afghanistan committing war crimes as part of a crack special forces squad that until now has been classified.
It is alleged that Kevin Rudd was a troop leader inside the secretive Special Operations And Intelligence Command that operates as the tip of our intelligence community spear.
The unit is not attached to the Department of Defence or even the armed services, it operates at the discretion of the Parliamentary Executive.
Leaked documents show Kevin was chosen to lead troops on the ground in Afghanistan because of his cool temperament and mild manner. Being fluent in Mandarin, which is the official language of Afghanistan according to The Australian, also helped the former Prime Minister rise quickly through the ranks.
The war crimes that The Australian alleges Mr Rudd committed include not giving an Afghan farmer a fair shake of a sauce bottle and chopping the hands of dozens of insurgents after a retinal scanner was destroyed during a firefight.
Mr Rudd has vehemently denied the allegations and suggests this is all part of a smear campaign against his petition to parliament to hold a Royal Commission into NewsCorp’s influence into the Australian media diversity.
Which is something The Australian has denied.
More to come.
