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UN report condemns "inhuman" Australian detention of refugees

"Australia’s indefinite detention of asylum seekers came under fresh international criticism last week after a United Nations report condemned the policy as “degrading and inhuman”. Media commentators spoke of Australia replacing apartheid South Africa as a target of global denunciation, with the report declaring that the mandatory imprisonment of asylum seekers violates international law."

Government vilifies report

"As soon as the report was released, the Howard government thumbed its nose at the UN. In an orchestrated response, leading ministers sought to undermine Bhagwati’s credibility, sending relations between the UN and Australia to a new low. Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer, Attorney-General Daryl Williams and Immigration Minister Ruddock issued a joint statement attacking his report as “emotive,” “fundamentally flawed” and lacking objectivity."

U.S.: Iraq Fails to Comply

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday that a report from chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix showed Iraq has failed to meet U.N. demands for disarmament of weapons of mass destruction, and warned the inspections process was "running out of time."

"Unfortunately, nothing we have heard today gives us hope that Iraq intends to fully comply with Resolution 1441 or any of the 16 resolutions that preceded it over the last 12 years," Washington's U.N. ambassador, John Negroponte said./

Iraq questions U.N. inspections

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq declared it had done all it could to aid in the hunt for banned arms programs and insisted Monday the United States was after oil, not weapons of mass destruction.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri told a news conference his country had cooperated fully with U.N. arms inspectors who have been scouring Iraq every day since Nov. 27.

Sabri called the United States an "evil country" that was warmongering with Britain and "exporting evil to other countries." What they wanted, he said, was "to occupy and colonize this country to control its oil."

I look forward to a new Axis of Evil where Australia joins forces with Iraq in "Operation My Enemies' Enemies are my Friends" against the United Nations.