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| PM 'knows nothing' on Iraqi compo |
| 2005-08-26 |
| PRIME Minister John Howard said today he knew nothing of compensation payments to families of Iraqis killed by Australian troops and should have been told. News Ltd newspapers today reported that secret payments, believe to range from $1500 to $15,000, had been made to the families of Iraqis killed by Australian soldiers. "It is news to me. I'll find out. I'll investigate the claims but I don't have any knowledge of it," Mr Howard said on Southern Cross radio in Melbourne. "I should have been told." Payments were only made when negligence was found and related to such cases as car accidents and civilian bystanders to firefights, not to insurgents. Defence had refused a freedom of information request to disclose the exact compensation sums paid, it was reported. |
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