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Australia says it won't cave in to militant ultimatum on Iraq SYDNEY, Sunday (AFP) Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Sunday said his government would not bow to a militant group claiming links with Al-Qaeda and reported to have threatened a wave of attacks in Australia unless it withdraws its troops from Iraq. The group - calling itself Islamic Tawhid Group and claiming to be an Al-Qaeda branch in Europe - posted the threat overnight, reports here said, warning it would carry out car bombings in both Australia and Italy unless they met its demands. Downer said he had never heard of the group, which made similar threats against Poland and Bulgaria last week, but insisted that the government would never give in to terrorist threats. "This group Islamic Tawhid Group isn't a group we're familiar with but nevertheless it's a threat, it's on the Internet, we take it seriously," Downer told Channel Nine. "What it does is it reminds us that we have to be absolutely determined in the face of the threats of terrorists to make sure we don't give in to those threats." |
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