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Australia Sends Emergency Response Team To Iraq
A DEPARTMENT of Foreign Affairs emergency response team was preparing to head to Iraq to do what it could to secure the release of hostage Douglas Wood, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said today.He said the Government was taking the matter very seriously and the kidnapping appeared to be authentic. But he warned the Australian response would not involve giving in to demands from insurgents that Australian forces be withdrawn from Iraq. "An inter-departmental task force has met and will be be deploying an emergency response team," Mr Downer said on ABC radio. "That will be led by a deputy secretary from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and will include Australian Federal Police And Some Australian Defence Personell" Posted by: God Save The World 2005-05-01 |
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