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A lone gunman held six crew members of a Canadian charter plane hostage after seizing the Cuba-bound jet with 182 people on board following its landing in Jamaica.

Local and airline officials said all the passengers had been released unharmed, but the six members were still being held inside the CanJet plane at Montego Bay\’s Sangster International Airport. Earlier reports put the number of those held at five.

But CanJet General Manager Ken Woodside clarified to reporters, during a televised news conference early Monday, that the hostage situation involved six crew.

Two of them had apparently locked themselves in the cockpit of the Boeing 737 after the gunman managed to pass security and sneak into the plane after it landed. “Our top priority is the safe release of the remaining crew members,” Woodside said.

“We are providing full cooperation to security officials and the local authorities who are doing everything possible to bring this matter it a peaceful end.”

The identity of the gunman has not been released, but Jamaican Information Minister Daryl Vaz described him to CNN television earlier as a “mentally-challenged youngster,” adding that the events should not be judged “in terms of an international incident.”

“His demand was to go to Cuba,” Jamaican Information Minister Daryl Vaz said of the gunman, who is believed to be a Jamaican in his early 20s.

The minister and the airline said two CanJet crew members had already been released.

No one was injured. Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding flew in to monitor the situation and offer support to passengers, who have been placed at a local hotel.

Golding told reporters his government would make a concerted effort to improve airport security in the aftermath of Sunday\’s breach. Police were negotiating with the hostage-taker with the help of his father in a bid to resolve the standoff, officials said.

Meanwhile, CanJet said in a statement posted on its website that “no harm has come to anyone remaining on board and there has been no damage to the aircraft.”

As police tried to determine how the armed man was able to penetrate security cordons and make his way into the jet, early reports and witness accounts indicated the gunman reached Flight 918 during its layover stop in Montego Bay at about 11:30 pm Sunday.

He entered the airport through a staff entrance with the help of fake identification cards, the reports said.

During the time the passengers and crew were kept hostage, one shot was fired, but it was later confirmed that no one was hurt.

Airport staff members described the gunman as a Latino-looking man, who was wearing a pair of short pants and a black long-sleeve shirt. A large contingent of police and army personnel cordoned off the airport, but officials were not willing to provide any additional details.

Once released by the gunman, Christen Gosslin, a passenger on the flight, told his father by telephone that the gunman demanded cash from the plane\’s occupants, CNN reported.

“The guy wanted to have all their money,” Gosslin\’s father, Alphonse, told the network.

“He (my son) told his girlfriend to take all the money and just take her passport and credit card and put it in her back pocket.” Christen Gosslin was part of a 25-person wedding party, who spoke to his father in New Brunswick, Canada, while waiting for another flight, CNN said.

Another passenger, Brenda Grenier, called her husband and said a man apparently had sneaked aboard the plane that took off from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and had taken hostages, CNN said. Grenier and her daughter were safe, her husband told CNN from his home in Nova Scotia, Canada.

CanJet said that its priority was the “well-being of the passengers and crew who were involved in the incident.” CanJet Airlines Flight 918 was being operated for Transat Tours Canada.

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A former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency has insisted that harsh interrogation techniques widely condemned as torture succeeded in battling al-Qaeda and saving American lives, something he characterised as “an inconvenient truth”.

Michael Hayden, who was replaced as CIA chief earlier this year by President Barack Obama, assailed Obama\’s decision last week to release top secret memos detailing the interrogation techniques as “really dangerous” for US intelligence efforts.

Speaking on the Fox News Sunday program, Hayden rejected claims by critics that methods such as extreme sleep deprivation, waterboarding and the use of insects to provoke fear had proved ineffective in getting information from top members of the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

“Most of the people who oppose these techniques want to be able to say: \’I don\’t want my nation doing this\’ – which is a pure, honorable position – and \’they didn\’t work anyway\’,” Hayden said.

“The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer; it really did,” Hayden said.

“It\’s what I\’d call, without meaning any irreverence to anybody, \’a really inconvenient truth\’.”

Hayden specifically rejected a weekend report in The New York Times citing CIA officials saying waterboarding and beating of a top al-Qaeda operative, Abu Zubaydah, yielded no more information than softer interrogation techniques.

“We stand by our story. The critical information we got from Abu Zubaydah came after we began the EIT\’s, enhanced interrogation techniques,” he said.

Hayden said Abu Zubaydah had “clammed up” after providing some “nominal information” under initial questioning.

But under harsher interrogation he “gave up more valuable information”, including tips that led to the capture of another senior al-Qaeda agent, Ramzi Binalshibh, he said.

Hayden also dismissed Obama\’s controversial promise not to seek prosecution of CIA agents or former officials under President George W Bush who authorised or carried out the harsh techniques the government now condemns.

“Oh, God no, it\’s not the end of it,” Hayden said, warning of possible civil lawsuits or congressional probes targeting CIA agents who relied on the Bush-era memos to carry out harsh interrogations.

“There will be more revelations. There will be more commissions. There will be more investigations,” he said.

“And this to an agency, again I\’ll repeat, that is at war and is on the front lines of defending America.”

Hayden also said Obama\’s own CIA director, Leon Panetta, as well as three other former CIA chiefs had warned the White House against releasing the memos outlining US interrogation techniques.

“At the tactical level, what we have described for our enemies in the midst of a war are the outer limits that any American would ever go to in terms of interrogating an al-Qaeda terrorist. That\’s very valuable information,” he said.

Janet Napolitano, Obama\’s homeland security minister, defended the decision.

“When you look at the great public need for accountability and responsibility and transparency here, and when you look at our desire to close the book on this regrettable chapter and move the country forward, it was imperative, really, that the reports be released,” she said on CNN.

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A witness at Cambodia\’s UN-backed war crimes court has testified that the former prison chief for the Khmer Rouge regime executed his uncle at a secret jungle camp.

The prison chief known as Duch – whose real name is Kaing Guek Eav – charged in response that the testimony was fabricated.

Chan Veoun, 56, said he saw the jailer, known as Duch, kill his uncle while he himself was collecting food at the prison camp, M-13, in the early 1970s.

“He was my uncle. He was shot by Duch. He killed him in front of my eyes,” Chan Veoun said, weeping. He did not give a reason for the slaying.

Last month Duch apologised at the start of his trial, accepting blame for overseeing the extermination of 15,000 people who passed through the regime\’s main prison, Tuol Sleng.

He has maintained however that he never personally executed anyone and has only admitted to abusing two people.

Chan Veoun told the court Duch regularly beat prisoners and once stripped a woman to her waist to burn her breasts with a torch soaked in gasoline.

Once, he added, prisoners kept shackled in pits were once left to drown in rainy season floods.

Duch denied his accounts, saying he recognised Chan Veoun but the witness had never worked under him.

“This is a complete fabrication – probably of what he heard and (he) added something on top,” Duch told the court.

“About the crimes committed at (M-13) I cannot forget it. It is a serious matter that affects me psychologically.”

The court has been hearing evidence about M-13, which Duch ran during the 1971 to 1975 Khmer Rouge insurgency against then then US-backed government, to better understand Tuol Sleng\’s organising structure.

The Khmer Rouge were in power in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, when Duch is accused of supervising Tuol Sleng prison and sending thousands of people to their deaths in the so-called “Killing Fields.”

The former mathematics teacher has denied assertions by prosecutors that he played a central role in the Khmer Rouge\’s iron-fisted rule.

He faces life in jail at the court, which does not have the power to impose the death penalty.

Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot died in 1998, and many believe the UN-sponsored tribunal is the last chance to find justice for victims of the regime, which killed up to two million people.

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CIA interrogators waterboarded al-Qaeda\’s September 11 attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times and another terror suspect, Abu Zubaydah, 83 times, The New York Times has reported.

Citing a 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum, the newspaper said the agency used the simulated drowning technique on the two Al-Qaeda operatives far more than had been previously reported.

The report recalls that in 2007, former CIA officer John Kiriakou told media organizations that Abu Zubaydah had undergone waterboarding for only 35 seconds before agreeing to tell everything he knew.

Mohammed, the self-described planner of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, was captured in Pakistan in March 2003. Zubaydah was caught in 2002.

Last year, Mohammed was charged with war crimes and murder by a US military commission and faces the death penalty if convicted.

The Times said the release of the numbers is likely to become part of the debate about the morality and efficacy of interrogation methods that the Justice Department under the administration of former president George W. Bush declared legal.

President Barack Obama plans to visit Central Intelligence Agency headquarters Monday and make public remarks to employees.

Last week, Obama granted immunity to CIA officers involved in tough terror interrogations as he released graphic memos detailing harsh methods approved by ex-president George W. Bush.

In the documents, Bush-era legal officials argued that such tactics that Obama has since disowned such as simulated drowning, facial slapping, the use of insects to scare prisoners and sleep deprivation did not amount to torture.

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The Dark Lord might not have liked Middle-earth and now Lord of the Rings fanatics conclude the New Zealand government feels the same.

Kiwi Rings fans have lost their latest bid to have local landmarks named after place names from the country\’s Oscar-winning trilogy.

A holiday park operator from Fiordland, in New Zealand\’s deep south, had proposed that a nearby two-kilometre stretch of the Waiau River by the tourist town of Te Anau be renamed Anduin Reach.

The area doubled as the Anduin River in Fellowship of the Ring, with cast members floating downstream in elfin boats.

But the government\’s geographic board, which decides on place names, declined the suggestion and hinted that Kiwis would be hard pressed to get the Rings into the country\’s map books.

“In the case of Anduin Reach, the board noted that Lord of the Rings place names have been declined in the past, and that there is no geographic basis for the area having a name,” the board\’s assistant adviser Jill Remnant wrote.

Rings fan website The One Ring expressed disappointment at the rejection.

“I am afraid the geographic board are no fun when it comes to Tolkien,” it stated.

Motor camp manager Aaron Nicholson, who made the request, was even more frustrated, saying he felt New Zealand politicians had a “strangely negative attitude” towards the Rings movies.

“These movies were a massive success for New Zealand, the director Peter Jackson is still a massive success and we\’ve still got tourists coming here to see where the movies were filmed,” Nicholson said.

“We should be encouraging it, making a fuss about it, and stop being precious about historic relevance.”

Nicholson, who calls himself a Rings “fan but not a nerd”, says he won\’t give up and is uploading footage of the river to fan sites to help build his case.

He says he\’d just call it that anyway, but that authorities would “tear down our signs”.

He hopes the country “gets a little bit more Rings proud” following the filming of the prequel, The Hobbit, to start next year.

“We need to showcase this place better,” the fan said.

“Tourists don\’t just visit for the culture and the adventure. There\’s the Rings, too.”

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US President Barack Obama will visit CIA headquarters amid charges he undermined the US intelligence community by unveiling details of its controversial interrogation methods.

The US leader, who last week released “Top Secret” memos on interrogation techniques widely condemned as torture, will go to the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, for private meetings with personnel and to deliver a public message “about the importance of the CIA\’s mission” to US national security.

Obama is set to reassure CIA officers of his promise not to seek prosecution of CIA agents or former officials under his predecessor George W. Bush who authorized or carried out the harsh techniques the government now condemns.

“This is a time for reflection, not retribution,” Obama said Thursday after releasing the documents.

Former head of the US Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Hayden, however, warned Sunday that the release could still leave agents vulnerable to civil lawsuits or congressional probes targetting CIA agents who relied on the Bush-era memos to carry out harsh interrogations.

“There will be more revelations. There will be more commissions. There will be more investigations,” he told the TV program “Fox News Sunday.”

This is an agency, he added, “that is at war and is on the frontlines of defending America.”

The harsh interrogation techniques, Hayden insisted, had succeeded in battling Al-Qaeda and saving American lives, something he characterized as “an inconvenient truth.”

Hayden, who was replaced as CIA chief earlier this year by Obama, assailed the decision to release the memos as “really dangerous” for US intelligence efforts.

The documents showed how the Bush-era legal officials argued that tactics such as simulated drowning, face slapping, the use of insects to scare prisoners and sleep deprivation did not amount to torture.

“Most of the people who oppose these techniques want to be able to say: \’I don\’t want my nation doing this\’ – which is a pure honorable position – and \’they didn\’t work anyway\’,” Hayden said.

“The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer, it really did,” he said.

“It\’s what I\’d call, without meaning any irreverence to anybody, \’a really inconvenient truth\’.”

Hayden specifically rejected a weekend report in The New York Times citing CIA officials saying that waterboarding and beating of a top Al-Qaeda operative, Abu Zubaydah, yielded no more information than softer interrogation techniques.

“We stand by our story. The critical information we got from Abu Zubaydah came after we began the EIT\’s, enhanced interrogation techniques,” he said.

Hayden said Abu Zubaydah had “clammed up” after providing some “nominal information” under initial questioning.

But under harsher interrogation he “gave up more valuable information,” including tips that led to the capture of another senior Al-Qaeda agent, Ramzi Binalshibh, he said.

Hayden also said Obama\’s own CIA director, Leon Panetta, as well as three other former CIA chiefs had warned the White House against releasing the memos outlining US interrogation techniques.

“The definition of top secret is information which, if revealed, would cause grave harm to US security,” he said, adding that the release of the documents, by definition of their classification, was “a grave threat to national security.”

The gravest effect, Hayden said, was that agency officers may be held back in the future from acting in the best interests of the country.

Because of the furor over the memo\’s release, an officer may not be satisfied if the Justice Department, White House and Congress sign off on specific actions, said Hayden.

However, Janet Napolitano, Obama\’s homeland security secretary, defended the decision.

“When you look at the great public need for accountability and responsibility and transparency here, and when you look at our desire to close the book on this regrettable chapter and move the country forward, it was imperative, really, that the reports be released,” she said on CNN.

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President Barack Obama dampened hopes of a quick end to a long-standing US trade embargo on Cuba as Havana\’s exclusion from a regional summit scuppered agreement on a joint declaration.

Although Obama made the historic acknowledgement that Washington\’s half-century policy towards Cuba “hasn\’t worked,” he told the Americas summit in Trinidad and Tobago that it would not be modified any time soon and urged Cuba to give its people more freedoms.

“We\’re not going to change that policy overnight,” Obama told a news conference at the end of the gathering, which brought together 34 heads of state.

“Issues of political prisoners, freedom of speech and democracy are important, and can\’t simply be brushed aside,” Obama said.

Those remarks doused hopes built up last week that led many to believe Washington and Havana might be on course to negotiate an end to the 47-year-old US embargo on Cuba.

Optimism was stoked when Obama lifted curbs on Cuban-Americans visiting and sending money to Cuba.

It took on momentum when Cuban President Raul Castro said he was willing to talk to the US about “everything” — including the previously off-limits topics of political prisoners, freedom of the press and human rights.

But by the end of the summit, Obama and his administration were cautioning that any further US compromises would only follow concrete signs from Cuba that it was serious in engaging them.

“The test for all of us is not simply words, but also deeds,” Obama said. The summit itself became a showcase for Obama\’s popularity with leaders who have previously been cool towards the US, including Venezuela\’s President Hugo Chavez, jockeying to be captured in photos with the US president.

But Obama\’s charm offensive was not enough to persuade all the leaders to put their names to a final joint declaration, with several sticking to an earlier vow that they would not endorse the document in solidarity with Cuba, which was excluded from the meeting.

Several nations, including Bolivia, Venezuela, Honduras and Nicaragua, agreed ahead of time not to sign the final declaration to show displeasure that Cuba was not invited to the summit.

The gesture also was taken to protest Havana\’s continued exclusion from hemispheric groups like the Organization of American States, from which Cuba was barred in 1962 at Washington\’s insistence.

While Obama did attract some criticism back home for shaking hands with Chavez and accepting a book from him as a gift, he made clear that — as with Cuba — major obstacles remained towards better ties despite “positive signs”.

“I have great differences with Hugo Chavez on matters of economic policy and matters of foreign policy,” Obama said.

“There have been instances in which we\’ve seen Venezuela interfere with some of the countries that surround Venezuela in ways that I think are a source of concern,” he added. Almost all the leaders said Obama was a genial, open counterpart who seemed genuine in wanting to open a “new era” with them based on standing toe-to-toe.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Obama was helping build “a new dynamic” in the region. But a few others were more skeptical.

“He is the chief of an empire hemmed in by its own rules who will never change,” Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said.

The United States and other countries in the Americas are to consider the Cuba issue again June 2-3 in Honduras, when the Organization of American States will mull dropping a 1962 resolution barring the island from the group.

Although the final declaration document lacked the signatures of several leaders, those who did sign agreed to combat “all forms of organized crime”.

The language was pushed by Mexico where more than 7,000 people have been killed since the beginning of last year in clashes between Mexican drug cartels and security forces.

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has finally conceded the economy will be dragged into a recession for the first time since the early 1990s.

Previously, he and Treasurer Wayne Swan had avoided using the “R” word, although most economists have expressed the view the economy was either already in recession or would be unable to dodge the dramatic downturn suffered by Australia\’s trading partners.

“The worst global economic recession in 75 years means it\’s inevitable that Australia will be dragged into recession,” Mr Rudd told an economic forum in Adelaide on Monday.

“The severity of the global recession has made it impossible for Australia to avoid a further period of negative economic growth.”

The economy recorded its first quarter of negative growth in eight years during the final three months of 2008. A recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

The March quarter economic growth reading will be released on June 3.

Inflation pressures in decline

The government\’s admission came as new data showed inflation pressures were clearly in decline and won\’t stand in the way of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) trimming the official cash rate again if it needs to stimulate the economy further.

Wholesale prices – or the costs to business – unexpectedly fell in the first three months of this year, the first drop since mid-2003.

Economists said the result presents some downside risk to their forecasts for Wednesday\’s consumer price index (CPI), keeping inflation concerns very much on the back burner.

“RBA officials won\’t be sitting on the edge of their seats in anticipation of this week\’s inflation data,” JP Morgan economist Helen Kevans said.

Minutes from the April RBA board meeting, when it cut the cash rate by a further 25 basis points, will be released on Tuesday, providing an insight for the decision, and perhaps hinting to the likelihood of further rate cuts down the track.

Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens will give a lunchtime address to the Australian Institute of Company Directors not long after the minutes are released.

Financial markets are pricing in a greater than even chance of a further 25 basis points cut in May and a low for the cash rate of around 2.5 per cent later in the year.

“We expect further modest rate cuts from the RBA, particularly given that it will be difficult for RBA officials to sit on their hands as the unemployment rate rises sharply in the months ahead,” Ms Kevans said.

The producer price index (PPI) at the final stage of production fell 0.4 per cent in the March quarter, after rising 1.3 per cent in the previous three months, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said.

The decline was led by a 25 per cent drop in oil prices and a 1.5 per cent fall in building costs.

The annual PPI rate subsided to its slowest pace in more than a year at 4.0 per cent, compared with 6.4 per cent growth in the December quarter, and almost a full percentage point lower than economists had predicted. Price pressures in the earlier stages of the production chain were also much weaker, which should put more downward pressure on consumer prices later in the year.

However, ANZ economist Riki Polygenis does not believe the economy is about to face a period of deflation. “While Australia is expected to experience recession, there will not be the same collapse in demand – particularly from consumers … being experienced elsewhere,” she said.

Deflation would be disastrous for the government when it is trying to get people spending through its stimulus packages, as there would be little incentive to purchase major goods knowing they would be cheaper in the future.

Forecasts for Wednesday\’s March quarter CPI made prior to the PPI release centred on a 0.5 per cent quarterly rise, which would cut the annual inflation rate to 2.9 per cent and take it back within the RBA\’s two to three per cent target band.

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Iran\’s judiciary says it has ordered a “quick and fair” appeal for US-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi, who was sentenced last week to eight years in jail as a US spy.

“The different aspects of this case… should be fairly, accurately and quickly considered in appeal proceedings,” judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi was quoted as saying in a statement obtained by AFP.

Saberi, 31, was convicted by an Iranian revolutionary court during a closed-door trial last week of spying for the United States, which along with Israel is Tehran\’s main foe.

But in an unprecedented move on Sunday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for “justice” for Saberi and said she should be given the right to defend herself. The eight-year jail term for Saberi is the harshest sentence yet for a dual national on security charges in Iran. The charge of spying can carry the death penalty.

Foreign ministry spokemsan Hassan Ghashghavi also denied on Monday that Saberi was being used as a bargaining chip in any talks with Washington or to try to secure the release of Iranian diplomats held by US forces in Iraq.

“The issue of our diplomats is a whole different matter from the trial of an Iranian national such as Ms Saberi,” Ghashghavi told reporters.

He also said that Saberi, a former US beauty queen with both Iranian and US citizenship, would have no consular access to the Swiss embassy, which represents American interests in Tehran.

“We act according to our laws concerning Iranian citizens.

She is an Iranian national and she has had full access to a lawyer,” he said.

Iran does not recognise dual nationality.

His comments came after Swiss President Hans-Rudolf Merz raised Saberi\’s case during a meeting Ahmadinejad on Sunday in Geneva, where the Iranian president is due to speak at a controversial racism conference.

The United States severed ties with Iran in the wake of the 1979 Islamic revolution but new US President Barack Obama has been calling for dialogue with Tehran.

The United States has led international concern about the conviction of Saberi, who was initially detained in January accused of buying alcohol, an illegal act in the Islamic republic.

Obama, who has voiced “deep disappointment” over the verdict against Saberi, denied on Sunday denied that she was a spy and demanded her release.

Saberi, who is also of Japanese descent, has reported for US National Public Radio, the BBC and Fox News, and has been living in Iran for the past six years.

In March, the foreign ministry said Saberi\’s press card was revoked in 2006 and that she had since been working in Iran “illegally.”

Ahmadinejad on Sunday told the Tehran prosecutor to examine the cases against both Saberi and Iranian-Canadian blogger Hossein Derakhshan, who has been behind bars since November on charges of insulting Shiite imams.

“You must do what is needed to secure justice… in examining these people\’s charges,” his chief of staff said in a letter to prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi.

“Take care that the defendants have all the legal freedoms and rights to defend themselves against the charges.”

The US military in Iraq raided the Iranian liaison office in the Kurdish northern city of Arbil in January 2007, seizing five men. Iran insists they were diplomats and has repeatedly called for their release.

Two were freed in November 2007 but US forces are still holding three men.

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Outspoken A-League newcomers Gold Coast United have described Football Federation Australia\’s decision to deny them an opening round home game as a “slap in the face”.

The Queensland Roar will host the much-hyped season opener against United at Suncorp Stadium on August 8, ensuring a financial windfall for the cash-strapped Brisbane-based club.

An initial 2009-10 season draft had reportedly pencilled in United\’s 27,000-seat Skilled Park as the round one host venue.

But there was recent speculation that the FFA had switched it to the 52,000-capacity Suncorp Stadium to help the Roar.

Football Federation Australia chief Ben Buckley denied it, adding the game deserved to be played in the biggest and best venue available and that is Suncorp Stadium.

Apart from hosting fellow newcomers North Queensland Fury in the second round and Sydney FC in round five, United face a baptism of fire with a busy travel schedule in their first two months.

Fowler to face Sydney FC in A-League debut

Former Liverpool and England striker Robbie Fowler will make his A-League debut for newcomers North Queensland Fury against Sydney FC in Townsville on Saturday, August 8.

In other round one fixtures, reigning champions Melbourne Victory will play Central Coast Mariners at Etihad Stadium on the season opener on August 6 and second new team Gold Coast United will play Queensland Roar at Suncorp Stadium on August 8.

The draw for 2009-10 season was launched, with the league expanded by two teams, taking it to 10.

The season will now comprise 27 rounds, six more than previous seasons.

The format for the finals series has also expanded and will now involve the top six teams instead of the previous top four.

They will involve seven matches and offer more chances for the top two teams in the regular season.

There will also be a number of games to be played at new venues during the season.

These include Sydney Cricket Ground, Parramatta Stadium, and Perth\’s Subiaco Oval.

The Melbourne Victory kicks off the 2009-10 season against the Central Coast Mariners on Thursday 6th August.

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