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Howard committed to terror fight

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POSTED: 0346 GMT (1146 HKT), September 10, 2006

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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia's prime minister reaffirmed his nation's commitment to fighting terrorism Monday during a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.

"It was an attack on the values that the entire world holds in common," Howard, a staunch supporter of U.S. President George W. Bush, told a gathering at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra.

Howard said the universal values of individual liberty and dignity as well as freedom of association, religion and thought would prevail.

"In reaffirming our commitment to maintain the fight against terrorism, we do so in the belief that those universal values ... will in the end triumph," Howard said.

"We ... gather to reaffirm our commitment both as friends and allies of the people of the United States but also as citizens of the world to maintain the fight against terrorism," he added.

In media interviews Monday, Howard defended his decision to contribute troops to both the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

But former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, in Sydney to promote the local premiere of his documentary on global warming, described the Iraq invasion as a mistake.

Global reliance on oil is funding terrorism, he said.

"I think that it was a mistake for the U.S. to invade Iraq. I think it was a mistake not to connect the dots between some of the terrorist groups and some of the obscene amounts of money we're shipping to the Persian Gulf every day for foreign oil," Gore told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.

He said while the war on terror was important, climate change was a more serious threat.

"We should not ignore the crisis that is by far the most serious threat civilization has ever faced and if in the process we stop sending so much money to Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf oil-producing countries, we will choke off some of the flows of wealth to the terrorist groups," he said.

Australian national police chief Mick Keelty said Australia is now safer from terrorism than it was five years ago because the level of understanding and awareness has increased.

But an opinion poll published Monday found that almost two-thirds of Australians felt the world had become less safe since the al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington.

The JCNielsen poll published in The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper found that 63 percent of respondents felt the world was more dangerous while 32 percent felt the safety level was about the same.

The random nationwide telephone survey of 1,415 adults was conducted September 7-9 and had a 2.6 percentage point margin of error.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/...1.ap/index.html

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