ATTORNEY-GENERAL Mark Dreyfus has played down any potential link between a Sydney sheik and the Boston Marathon bombing suspect killed in a shootout.
US authorities are investigating if Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was a follower of controversial Australian Muslim cleric Sheik Feiz Mohammed.
A YouTube page with the user name Tamerlan Tsarnaev features religious videos, including one by the Sydney-born sheik.
Mr Dreyfus played down the potential link saying the YouTube video was several years old.
"Sheik Feiz Mohammed in recent months, particularly in the later period of last year when there was some quite dramatic demonstrations in Sydney, condemned the use of violence," Mr Dreyfus told Network Ten on Sunday.
The attorney-general said that as a community leader Sheik Mohammed was "certainly" getting behind the government's countering violent-extremism program.
Young men should be "getting out on the sporting field" rather than sitting around talking about jihad, Mr Dreyfus said.
Meanwhile, Fairfax Media reports that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has tried to justify the indefinite incarceration of 55 refugees because of adverse security assessments, with allegations of murder plots, militant training and people smuggling.
Asked if there were implications from the Boston bombing on the way the group were processed, Mr Dreyfus said it was important people assessed as refugees were treated humanely by Australia.
"We have acted humanely by setting up, for the first time, a review process so that all of those people ... who have received an adverse security assessment from ASIO can have their cases reviewed," Mr Dreyfus said.
He said that review process had only just gotten underway and was being conducted by former federal court judge Margaret Stone.
Treasurer Wayne Swan is in Washington for official finance talks and says there is "apprehension and fear" in American communities.
"You can feel it as you walk down the streets," he said.
Mr Swan dismissed comments by shadow treasurer Joe Hockey that Australia should be more risk adverse in the way the country processes arrivals.
"I think it's far too early to draw conclusions," Mr Swan said.
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