NOTICES

 

Hear Andrew Wilkie - the Iraq war whistle-blowing Australian intelligence analyst - speak on `Why New Zealand shouldn't be Bush and Howard's ally'

 

AUCKLAND, Wednesday August 24, 8 p.m. Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn.

 

WELLINGTON, Friday August 26, 7:30 p.m. St John's Hall, cnr Dixon and Willis Sts.

 

CHRISTCHURCH, Monday August 29, 7:30 p.m. Oxford Terrace Baptist Church

Lounge, cnr Oxford Tce and Madras St.

 

Wellington only: Book signing, Saturday August 27, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.,

Unity Books, 57 Willis St. Have your copy of Axis of Deceit signed by Andrew.

 

Meetings hosted by Green MP Keith Locke

 

Andrew Wilkie was the senior transnational intelligence analyst in Australia's Office of National Assessments in 2002 and early 2003, dealing with the intelligence being gathered on Iraq, and providing reports to the government. He resigned from the ONA in March 2003 and went public with his concerns that John Howard's government was manipulating and distorting the intelligence for political reasons.

 

He stands by the assertions he made at the time - that Iraq did not pose a serious enough threat to justify a war, that too many things could go wrong, and that it was bad policy to resort to force so long as

alternative options remained. He thinks that they have all been proven accurate.

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