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Article: Fed: Downer defends intelligence agencies
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- August 3, 2003
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Fed: Downer defends intelligence agencies
CANBERRA, Aug 3 AAP - Attacks on intelligence agencies were incoherent
and critics
failed to give credit for the agencies' achievements in the war on
terror, Foreign Minister
Alexander Downer said today.
Mr Downer said the US had made a mistake in identifying Australia
as a possible venue
for September-11 style terrorist attack rather than as a possible
jump-off point.
"Fair enough. They did make a mistake," he said on the Ten Network.
"But on the other hand the intelligence agencies of the US, UK,
Australia and other
countries are of an extra-ordinarily high level - great capabilities,
particularly ...