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AUSTRALIA is five weeks away from signing a crucial strategic agreement with Afghanistan that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars and outline Australia s postwar role there, but the government has yet to inform the public of its existence.

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Despite the fact that the US's final military presence in the country is to grow into a 2,500-person Marine Air Ground Task Force, Australia s defense minister Stephen Smith insisted Wednesday morning that the marines and their entourage cannot be qualified as a military base.

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Australian troops were ''integral'' to the operation of a secret Iraqi desert prison. The revelation has led to an Australian human rights organisation investigating such secret prisons to claim that the Australian military might have been complicit in war crimes by handing detainees over to the so-called ''black site'' known as H1.

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Australia s special forces commander has defended his troops' use of US drones to kill 'insurgent leaders' in southern Afghanistan, a deadly military tactic that gives the enemy no chance to surrender.

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By John Pilger

The illegal eavesdropping on famous people by the News of the World is said to be Rupert Murdoch s Watergate. But is it the crime by which Murdoch ought to be known?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28084.htm



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By John Pilger

More than 2500 people filled and overflowed Sydney Town Hall to hear journalist and film-maker John Pilger, Andrew Wilkie, independent member of the Australian Parliament and the only serving Western intelligence officer to whistle-blow on the invasion of Iraq, and renowned human rights lawyer Julian Burnside QC.

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