Qld: Prime Minister should tell if threats made to Australia
BRISBANE, Dec 1 AAP - Prime Minister John Howard should tell Australians if he hadany evidence that Iraq or any terrorist group backed by Iraq was about to attack Australia,Labor foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd said today.
He was commenting on the prime minister's statement on Channel Nine earlier today thathe was prepared to act if terrorists were planning an attack on Australia from a neighbouringcountry.
Mr Howard said the United Nations charter should be altered to allow nations to pre-emptivelystrike at known terrorist threats in another country.
"If the prime minister has evidence that Iraq is about to attack Australia he shouldtell us," Mr Rudd said.
"If the prime minister has evidence that any terrorist organisation backed by Iraqis about to attack Australia he should tell us.
"Because if he doesn't provide us and the Australian people with that information orthe Australian parliament with that information, then surely the sort of first strikethat he's talking about goes way beyond the limits of international law."
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KEYWORD: TERROR RUDD
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