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| Australia Doesn’t Plan Weapons Inquiry |
| 2004-02-03 |
| Australia has no need for a special inquiry into its intelligence on Iraq because it is sure Saddam Hussein had illicit weapons, Defense Minister Robert Hill said Tuesday. Australia received its intelligence from Britain and the United States, whose leaders both plan to name special panels to investigate the intelligence they used for going to war in Iraq. But Hill said he had confidence in the intelligence Australia received and there was no doubt Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. ``There were weapons. That is not in dispute,’’ Hill told reporters in Sydney. ``The issue is what happened to those weapons.’’ There’s a good question. Hill said Australia had already conducted a parliamentary inquiry to which Australian intelligence agencies had given evidence, and it was ``difficult to see what benefit would flow from yet another Australian inquiry.’’ The earlier inquiry has not completed its report and will not present its findings until March. Some opposition lawmakers have raised the possibility of another inquiry depending on the outcome of the U.S. probe. Being the opposition and all. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 Australia, which got all its information from former citizen Rupert Murdoch (who was granted US citizenship and special perks as to media ownership by Newt Gingrich)decided to swallow the Bush/Blair lies and just say "whatever"--and go back to the beaches |
| Posted by: NotMike Moore 2004-2-3 11:14:13 PM |
| #1 Some opposition lawmakers have raised the possibility of another inquiry depending on the outcome of the U.S. probe. So if they don't like the answer, they launch the inquiry. Just like jury shopping! |
| Posted by: Raj 2004-2-3 12:08:49 PM |