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A tip-off to their Indonesian counterparts by the Australian Federal Police may cost nine accused Australian heroin traffickers their lives - in defiance of official government guidelines. Australians are disinclined to sympathise with heroin smugglers, especially repeat heroin smugglers whose earlier business trips to and from Bali may have resulted in death sentences for any number of unknown Australian users. But line them up in the same prison as the three Bali bombers, who have also received the death penalty for murdering 202 people, and the nine begin to look slightly more appealing. Why couldn't the AFP have waited to pick up the four mules on home soil in Sydney on April 17? One theory is that there was a stuff-up: that the AFP had an agreement with the Indonesian authorities to let the mules pass through Bali to Australia, where they would be arrested; instead, some Indonesian official got a rush of blood and decided to nab them. However, Ruddock's office told The Bulletin there was never any such agreement. Instead, it seems the AFP simply tipped off the Indonesians then stood back to watch the show.
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