[LINK] Australia calls in favour from Washington

[Roger Clarke]

"Russell Ashdown" <russell at ashdown.net.au>
>http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item_no=2120&version=1&template_id=277&parent_id=258
>the country’s defence minister, Robert Ray.

I'm sure Ray will be delighted to have been called out of retirement 
and added to the fundamentalists' hit-list.


>   ...  Downer said Australia has proposed
>and expected to be given responsibility for assisting Iraq’s
>agricultural sector.  ...

"Our deserts are bigger than your deserts", he is reported to have 
said to Colin Powell.

-- 
Roger Clarke              http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/

Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA
                 Tel: +61 2 6288 1472, and 6288 6916
mailto:Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au            http://www.xamax.com.au/

Visiting Professor in the eCommerce Program, University of Hong Kong
Visiting Professor in the Baker Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, U.N.S.W
Visiting Fellow in Computer Science, Australian National University