Former US Marine pilot Daniel Duggan speaks publicly for the first time from his prison cell as he fights extradition to the United States over allegations he trained Chinese military pilots more than a decade ago. abc730
"You are about to receive a phone call from a correctional facility.Daniel Duggan, 54, says "Hello". The Australian citizen and former US Marine pilot is calling from his maximum-security cell in New South Wales.comes with risk. His words could be used as evidence against him. He's been in isolation for nine months."It's not that I want to speak out or decided to speak out, but I feel that I've had a very unfair ability to defend myself," he told 7.30.
"My emotion is on my sleeve, what you see is what you get and, I am an unfiltered person, truthful, straight to the face and I'll talk and… that's what I want to do." "There's a sad joke amongst the legal fraternity… they say you can indict a ham sandwich. So unfortunately, I happen to be the ham sandwich at the moment," he said.
His lawyer Bernard Collaery told 7.30 he believed the charges were politically motivated amid tensions between the United States and China. He claimed Australia, as an ally of the US, had a conflict of interest."So far as China is concerned, we were conducting joint military exercises at sea between the Royal Australian Navy, and the PLA Navy at a time when Dan Duggan is accused of, as it were, consorting with the enemy. It's double-standard. It's hypocrisy," he said.
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