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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BubbaFred who wrote (24004)	3/29/2003 11:13:04 PM
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Australia Wants U.N. to Administer Iraq 2 hours, 25 minutes ago story.news.yahoo.com By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer CANBERRA, Australia - Australia will press Washington to allow the United Nations (news - web sites) to administer an interim regime in Iraq (news - web sites) as soon as possible after the war ends, the foreign minister said Sunday. Alexander Downer, whose country has been a top supporter of the U.S.-led campaign against Iraq, made the comments before heading to Washington for talks with Bush administration officials. "I think for a very short period of time ... when the war comes to a conclusion American troops will be thick on the ground and they will secure the place but they will want to move as quickly as possible to a civilian administration," Downer told reporters. "We want to have as much of a U.N. involvement as is feasible and as is practical." British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) — the top U.S. partner in the war — also has called for a leading U.N. role in administrating Iraq after the fighting ends. But the Bush administration, while saying it wants the United Nations to participate, appears to want a lower profile for the world body. Australia has 2,000 military personnel — including special forces commandos, fighter pilots and navy mine clearance divers — in the coalition fighting Iraq. A military spokesman, Brigadier Mike Hannan, said Sunday that the Australian forces have suffered no casualties. Overnight, Australian FA/18 Hornet jets were involved in air strikes overnight on targets including "an Iraqi headquarters infrastructure," Hannan said. He gave no further details and said he did not know if the attacks were successful.