Australia will ignore threats of attack by a group saying it is the European wing of al Qaeda and blamed Spain and the Philippines for fueling the threats by giving in to terrorists and withdrawing troops from Iraq. The Islamic Tawhid Group said in a statement posted on a Web site it would attack Italy and Australia with “columns of rigged cars” if they did not withdraw their troops from Iraq. “We are still investigating the authenticity and relevance of that body, but we will not take any notice of threats of that kind,” Prime Minister John Howard, a close ally of President Bush, told reporters in Sydney on Monday.Full Story
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