October 17, 2002


AWOL A$$WIPE TO AUSSIES: 'UH...'
Bushies' Failure to Warn Australia about Indonesia Attack Causes Firestorm

It has now come to light that the CIA knew two weeks before the Bali blast that such an attack was impending - yet did not warn Australian intelligence, whose citizens were the primary victims. The warning was passed on to the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia - but not Australia. The Aussies are stunned by this revelation. "It would be an unthinkable and unforgiveable failure of the intelligence network," said Warren Reed, a former head of the Indonesian desk of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service. "If the Americans had this information," he insists," they would have passed it directly to us and others in the intelligence club." Yet, says Prime Minister John Howard, Australia never received any warning. Just like the travel warnings never issued before 9/11. - - From the Sydney Morning Herald , via democrats.com.



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