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...Responsibility for the attack on the patrol was quickly claimed by Abu Musab al Zarqawi's al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group. Officials in Canberra claimed the vehicles were not hit specifically because they were Australian, but a post boasting of the attack on a Zarqawi-linked website noted the soldiers' nationality. Even if the intention had been to strike U.S. or Iraqi troops, the men who triggered the bomb by remote control would have known they were about to hit Australians, who wear distinctive camouflage fatigues and drive different vehicles from the Americans. Several times, when this Australian reporter...
...Panyu returned to work after a two-day strike that secured them an increase in overtime pay and two days off each month. "I don't think they are really organized, not yet," says Anita Chan, a research fellow at Australia National University's Contemporary China Centre in Canberra. "But workers' consciousness is definitely increasing and they are aware of their rights like never before...
...Since the shock of 9/11, the U.S. and other Western governments have tended to err on the side of caution. Canberra has been criticized for its seeming indifference to the plight of Habib and fellow Australian David Hicks (who's been charged with three terrorism offenses). "The government has failed in its most basic obligation to protect Australian citizens," said Shadow Attorney General Nicola Roxon. But since Australia's counterterrorism laws weren't yet in force when Hicks and Habib were captured, they could not have been prosecuted at home, said Attorney General Philip Ruddock. Given the "grave nature...
...hectic and controversial year, Australia's Federal Police Commissioner seemed as likely to turn up in Jakarta, Seoul, Dili, Nuku'alofa, Honiara or Lae as in his home base of Canberra. Mick Keelty, 50, is the region's premier crime fighter at a time when law enforcement is anything but a desk job. The force he leads is charged with fighting terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering, people smuggling, identity theft, sexual servitude and child pornography. The A.F.P.'s first duty is to Australia, but on Keelty's watch it has also taken its intelligence-based approach abroad, helping police...
...Under his command, and following 9/11 and the 2002 Bali bombings, the organization has moved to the heart of power in Canberra; in the past four years, the A.F.P.'s head count has doubled to 5,000 officers and its annual budget has almost quadrupled, to $A926 million. Australian agents now work in 33 cities in 26 countries. Recalling a talk given to A.F.P. executives by Peter Shergold, the head of the Prime Minister's Department, Keelty says the new status is a "double-edged sword." "He said, 'The good news is that we're at the center of government...