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To: LindyBill who wrote (68672)	9/9/2004 9:14:39 PM
From: kumar	Respond to of 793838

with elections only 1 month away.... interesting times...

To: LindyBill who wrote (68672)	9/9/2004 9:17:21 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793838

I have the sound off, and am watching Dick Armey laugh at Colmes and Ferrero as they try to shout him down. Funny!

To: LindyBill who wrote (68672)	9/9/2004 10:52:22 PM
From: kumar	Respond to of 793838

more from Canberra times : Politics aside as foes vow to hunt down terrorists Friday, 10 September 2004 Prime Minister John Howard has vowed to track down the terrorists responsible for bombing the Australian embassy in Jakarta. Hours after NSW police said they were stepping up security in the lead-up to the federal election to avoid a Madrid-style terrorist attack, a suspected suicide bomber caused carnage outside the embassy in the Indonesian capital. Security has been stepped up at Australian embassies in Pakistan and Thailand amid fears of further attacks. On hearing the news, Mr Howard immediately surrendered his campaign plane to send Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty and nine AFP bomb experts to Jakarta. He said Australia would not be intimidated by acts of terror. He said he had no advice Australia was now at more risk of a terror attack. "This is not a nation that is going to intimidated by acts of terrorism," he told reporters. "There will, of course, be maximum cooperation between the Australian Federal Police and the Indonesian authorities to ensure that everything is being done to track down those responsible." Mr Howard played down fears that terrorists might strike on Australian soil to disrupt the October 9 election campaign. "No government can guarantee that they won't, but what a government can guarantee is that ... every effort is made to maintain effective security and be ready in the event that an incident were to occur," he said. "But I equally do not want to suggest that because of what has happened in Jakarta then some incident is going to occur in Australia - that would be wrong." Australia would not be intimidated into abandoning the war on terrorism by the horrific bombing, he said. "The day any country surrenders decisions on those things to the dictates of barbarism and terrorism is the day a country loses control over its future," he said. But he said it was too early to say that the attack had been prompted by Australia's involvement in the Iraq war or the election campaign, pointing out it came just two days before the third anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US and 10 days before Indonesia's presidential elections. Mr Latham said it was an appalling attack and called for those responsible to be hunted down. "The terrorists responsible for this attack are evil and barbaric, evil and barbaric, and must be dealt with as harshly as possible, as quickly as possible, and the Labor Party gives full support to all efforts by the Australian and Indonesian Governments to ensure that that happens," he said.