Australia, wary on hostage report, sends team to Iraq
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CANBERRA: Australia, unable to verify a report that two of its citizens had been taken hostage in Iraq, said today it had sent a logistics team to the country and still was trying to account for all of its nationals there.
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TWO Australians reportedly have been kidnapped in Iraq and threatened with execution within 24 hours unless John Howard withdraws Australian troops from the war-torn country.
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SYDNEY : Australia sent a special hostage rescue team to Iraq as it tried to unravel the mystery surrounding claims that Islamic militants have kidnapped two Australian security guards, officials said.
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SYDNEY : Australian Prime Minister John Howard was defiant about his support for the war in Iraq despite a new report&#39;s finding that Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction, the basis for the invasion.
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Prime Minister John Howard's government said Wednesday it had tracked down all 225 of its citizens known to be in Iraq, raising hopes that a claim by militants who said they'd kidnapped two Australians was untrue.
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Militants behind the deadly bombing of Australia's Jakarta embassy have a second group poised for attack, Australia's top policeman warned as Canberra said on Saturday all its diplomatic missions would be made bomb-proof.
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TONY EASTLEY: An Australian journalist snatched by insurgents in Iraq, has contradicted claims by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer that he was kidnapped in a part of Baghdad where he was advised not to go.
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IT WAS a good sign that those claiming to have kidnapped two Australians in Iraq had not released the names of their alleged hostages, Prime Minister John Howard said today.
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SYDNEY, Australia  - Militants behind the deadly  bombing of Australia's Jakarta embassy have a second group  poised for attack, Australia's top policeman warned as Canberra  said on Saturday all its diplomatic missions would be made  bomb-proof.
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Iraqi militants who kidnapped an Australian reporter in Baghdad and threatened to kill him âGoogledâ his name on the internet to investigate his work before releasing him unharmed, the journalistâs executive producer said today.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has dismissed a leaked US intelligence report that found the US-led Iraq war increased the global threat of terrorism, rather than diminishing it.
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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.
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Prime Minister John Howard stood firm on Tuesday against withdrawing troops from Iraq after unconfirmed reports two Australians were taken hostage and would be killed within 24 hours unless Canberra pulls out.
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THE Federal Government is investigating claims two Australians have been kidnapped in Iraq and will be killed if Australia doesn&#39;t pull out of the war zone in 24 hours.
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The Federal Government has sent a team of Defence personnel, police and other officials to Iraq as it tries to verify a claim that two Australians have been kidnapped by Islamic militants.
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SYDNEY - A deadline set by supposed hostage-takers in Iraq for Australian Prime Minister John Howard to announce a withdrawal of Australian forces from their country passed Wednesday with no announcement by Howard and no word on the hostages.
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Iraq&#39;s foreign minister says his country is doing what it can to secure the release of two Americans and a British national taken hostage in Baghdad Thursday, but will not give in to kidnappers&#39; demands.