Australian weapons expert tried to warn PM against joining Iraq war
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An expert on weapons of mass destruction warned Prime Minister John Howard last year against going to war with Iraq, arguing it would make Australia a bigger terrorist target, a press report says.
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Australia's conservative prime minister slammed Barack Obama on Sunday over his opposition to the Iraq war, a day after the first-term U.S. senator announced his intention to run for the White House in 2008.
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Australia's government has admitted for the first time that its decision to participate in the Iraq conflict may have increased the terrorist threat to Australian interests.
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Australia&#39;s opposition leader Mark Latham on Sunday linked the bombing outside Australian Embassy in Indonesia with Australia&#39;s involvement in the Iraq war.
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A comparison of Australian Prime  Minister John Howard&#39;s nationalism to that of Nazism prompted  outrage on Thursday, with one top minister calling the former  leader who said it an &quot;unguided missile.&quot;
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard was defiant about his support for the war in Iraq despite a new report's finding that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, the basis for the invasion.
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On the eve of the federal election, Prime Minister John Howard said Friday he was disappointed that the intelligence he used to justify Australia's participation in the U.S.-led war in Iraq was wrong, but would not alter course on Iraq if re-elected.
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KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia warned Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Monday that it rejected his threat to launch pre-emptive strikes in the region to stop terrorist attacks.
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Australian spy chief says the Iraq war has increased the threat of terrorism against Australian interests in the Middle East. Dennis Richardson, the head of the Australian Security
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[World News]: Sydney, Oct.27 : The chief of Australia&#39;s top spy agency has claimed that the country&#39;s involvement in the Iraq war has probably exposed it more to possible acts of terror in the future.
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British officials gave warning more than two years ago that Iyad Allawi, the interim Iraqi prime minister, was seen as &quot;a western stooge&quot; who &quot;lacked domestic credibility
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A top minister said that Australia's military involvement in Iraq may have helped make it a terrorist target, three days after a deadly bombing at its Jakarta embassy.
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"It was not entirely clear whether it was deliberate... i.e. a warning shot that they could and would do it without us... or a f***-up. We all assumed the latter"  British prime minister Tony Blair overrode cabinet colleagues who had doubts about going to war against Iraq, his former press chief revealed in diaries published today. via The West Australian
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China's rapid military expansion risked causing greater instability in the region, Australia said in a new defense strategy paper launched by Prime Minister John Howard on Thursday.
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PRIME Minister John Howard today reassured Indonesia that Australia was unlikely to launch a pre-emptive attack on its nearest neighbour to take out a terrorism target.
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Australia again warns of possible terrorist attacks in Indonesia and advises its citizens not to visit.
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SYDNEY : Foreign Minister Alexander Downer dismissed newspaper claims the Australian government was repeatedly warned its support for the Iraq war would impede the fight against terrorism.