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Article: Fed: Hill maintains full confidence in intelligence agencies
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- September 16, 2003
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Fed: Hill maintains full confidence in intelligence agencies
CANBERRA, Sept 16 AAP - Defence Minister Robert Hill has expressed
full confidence
in Australia's intelligence agencies over information to the government
ahead of the war
on Iraq.
Senator Hill said he was puzzled at the inability of coalition
forces in Iraq to find
weapons of mass destruction.
But he said he was not concerned that Australian intelligence agencies
did not pass
on a British Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) report in February,
before the the decision
was made to join the war.
The JIC report suggested a war on Iraq could increase the risk
of terrorism and the
risk that weapons of ...