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Prime Minister John Howard yesterday went on the offensive against a report claiming that Britain's close relationship with America had increased its risk of attack from terrorists. Mr Howard warned that Australia, also a US ally, could not allow its foreign policy to be manipulated by terrorists. "Australia was a terrorist target long before the Iraq operation; we were a terrorist target before the 11th of September, 2001," Mr Howard said. "The first transgression in the eyes of al-Qaeda and bin Laden that Australia committed was to go to the assistance of the people of East Timor. There is a...

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2005 – President Bush today met with Australia Prime Minister John Howard, a man he called an "old friend" and whose country has become an important U.S. ally in the war on terror. "Australia and the United States share a commitment to freedom," the president said. "We understand we compete against an ideology of hatred, an ideology that murders the innocent in order to achieve objectives. "We know we must be steadfast and strong when it comes to bringing to justice those who would kill innocent life, like those who got killed in New York City and...

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WASHINGTON, July 18, 2005 – Australia remains committed to "military operations that are part of the democratization process in both Afghanistan and Iraq," the country's prime minister said in the Pentagon today. "No two countries could be closer in terms of our common values and attitudes towards the challenges that the world faces at the present time," Prime Minister John Howard said during a joint press conference with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Australia has been a steadfast ally in the war on terror. The country has nearly 1,400 troops in Iraq, and Australian troops were with U.S. and British...

JANETTE Howard has kept a low profile since arriving in Washington with Prime Minister John Howard, but a $20,000 diamond drew her into the public spotlight today. The glittering 2.09 carat, cognac-coloured diamond was presented to Washington's famous Smithsonian Museum by Mrs Howard on behalf of Sydney jeweller Nicola Cerrone and Rio Tinto's Argyle diamond mine in Western Australia. The museum has an extensive collection of gemstones from around the world, but the Argyle diamond is its first from Australia. Wearing a borrowed gold Cerrone broach featuring champagne and cognac diamonds on her pale lemon suit jacket, Mrs Howard was...

President Bush welcomes Indian Prime Minister Manmohan to the White House. There is an official arrival ceremony, later they hold talks in the Oval Office and give joint press availability. They then met with US India chief executive officer forum members in the Blue Room. They are due to dine together this evening On Saturday Vice President Dick Cheney completed his annual physical at which it was discovered that he has a mild case of esophagitis and some small dilation of the arteries behind both knees. Australian Prime Minister John Howard is currently on a visit to Washington he attended...

Prime Minister John Howard will use a major speech to conservative politicians from around the world to praise Indonesia and Iraq for their push towards democracy. Mr Howard will address the triennial meeting in Washington of the International Democrat Union (IDU), which is made up of about 70 conservative, Christian Democrat and other centre-right political parties. Mr Howard will use his speech, to be delivered overnight Australian time, to remind Europe and North America of the strides towards democracy that Indonesia and Iraq have made. "Indonesia is now the third largest democracy in the world and it's a point that...

JOHN Howard meets George W. Bush in 10 days' time in the US and before he leaves Howard must decide whether Australia should make a new troop deployment to Afghanistan. Public comments in recent days by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer signal he favours a renewed Afghanistan commitment. Expectations have been created that Australia will take a positive decision. Political logic suggests that Howard would want to announce any such decision before he sees Bush, not afterwards, to limit the inevitable ill-informed criticism that he was mugged in the White House. Even if there is no announcement before the Howard-Bush meeting...