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To: maceng2 who wrote (104658)	7/12/2003 7:28:50 AM
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Looks as if bashing Iraq war mongers is quite the international fashion at the moment... Australian PM says he relied on British intelligence to justify war ananova.com Australia's Prime Minister John Howard says today he did not base his decision to send troops to war in Iraq on discredited US intelligence. Mr Howard claims he had relied on the judgment of the British Joint Intelligence Committee, which stood by claims that Saddam Hussein's regime tried to buy uranium from Africa. He was speaking after CIA Director William Tenet accepted responsibility for failing to remove a similar claim - later found to be based on forged documents - from US President George W Bush's State of the Union speech in January. Mr Howard says his own reference to the African uranium issue, made to the Australian Parliament on February 4 quoted a judgment of the British Joint Intelligence Committee. "The relevant British intelligence agencies continue to stand by that judgment," Howard said in a statement. "They rely on intelligence, which Australian agencies have not seen, separate from the documents declared by the International Atomic Energy Agency to have been forgeries." Mr Howard has been under intense pressure this week to explain when he knew the US claims were wrong. Two Australian intelligence agencies and officials at the Foreign Ministry have acknowledged they knew of the inaccuracy but did not tell Howard. Story filed: 09:40 Saturday 12th July 2003