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THIS
ARTICLE IS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST BECAUSE IT JUST SHOWS HOW
STUPID THEY THINK WE ARE.MOST ARE SHEEP, BUT I VIVIDLY
REMEMBER SEEING A PICTURE OF LASER BEAMS FIRED FROM A
LOCATION IN AUSTRALIA AT SOME KIND OF HUGE UFO IN ORBIT
AROUND EARTH. THIS ARTICLE HAS WILLIAM COHEN SAYING THAT THE
BASE WILL BE BUILT AT PINE GAP IF POSSIBLE. I JUST THINK IT
IS NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT WAS THE LOCATION CHOSEN WHEN IT
ALREADY EXISTS THERE.I WISH I COULD REMEMBER WHERE I SAW
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Labor slates missile defence
A Labor
government would review any Australian
role in the United States National Missile
Defence system, Opposition foreign affairs
spokesman Laurie Brereton pledged
yesterday.
This is
despite the fact that Labor allowed
Australian bases to be used for early
warning of Scud missile launches during
the 1991 Gulf War.
Mr
Brereton said the nuclear missile defence
system had the potential to severely
damage world prospects for disarmament. He
said the Government should come clean on
its involvement in NMD and its
implications for Australian
security.
"We
believe that national missile defences are
a thoroughly unhelpful development. Labor
in office would very closely review any
involvement by Australia," he told
reporters.
Visiting
American Defence Secretary William Cohen
yesterday foreshadowed a possible
Australian role in NMD, although no
decision has yet been made to proceed with
the expensive and problem-plagued
system.
"Australia
plays an important role in early warning
and . . . we would expect and hope that
that would continue into the future if
there is an NMD," he said.
Defence
Minister John Moore said Australia would
wait to be asked.
"We'll
wait till a proposition comes to us from
the American Government," he said.
Any
proposal for Australian involvement in NMD
would involve use of the joint
Australia-US defence base at Pine Gap
outside Alice Springs.
This
serves as a ground station for US Defence
Support Program early warning satellites,
replacing the older facility at
Nurrungar.
After the
1991 Gulf War, Labor proclaimed the use of
Nurrungar for its role in detecting launch
of Iraqi Scud missiles, allowing early
warning to coalition forces and civilian
populations. That would also have
facilitated coalition retaliation against
Scud launching sites.
"I trust
that the important role played by the
joint defence facility Nurrungar in the
Gulf War will further enhance public
appreciation of its significance for
maintaining peace and stability, both
globally and regionally," then Labor
defence minister Robert Ray said in
November 1991.
Mr Cohen
and Mr Moore signed yesterday an agreement
for enhanced cooperation on defence
equipment and industry, which will have
important implications for the Collins
submarines.
Mr Moore
said the agreement provided extensive
access to US technology needed to bring
the trouble-plagued Collins boats into
operational service. "There's been months
of negotiations with the [US] State
Department and the Pentagon to make sure
that this agreement gives us the access to
the required levels of technology," he
said.
Mr Cohen
endorsed an increase in Australian defence
spending. "It should increase its defence
spending according to what it perceives to
be its needs," he said.
"I believe
it's important, as your prime minister and
defence minister have pointed out that
there needs to be an increase in the
future.
"But
that's up to the Australian people and the
leadership to determine," he said. -
AAP
source:
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/
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