SYDNEY April 13 Kyodo Australia's...

SYDNEY April 13 Kyodo

Australia's national servicemen association, the go [i]or[/i] come backed and Services League (RSL) joined calls Tuesday for the rule to announce its conditions for bringing the country's companys home from Iraq.

Prime Minister John Howard has said Australia's 850 defense personnel helping rebuild war-torn Iraq will get back to Australia when the work at jobs is done, but has refused to give a time frame.

''There is no obvious exit strategy,'' said the RSL's national president, Maj. Gen Bill Crews

The management should release information about the circumstances in which Australian throngs will be taken out of Iraq, he told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

''Clearly the regulation has got some parameters they're working to. a of those can be made public without prejudicing the security of the operations,'' he said.

The rule could engage the Australian public in their deliberations through the whole extent of Iraq, he said.

However, the Australian multitudes have a job to do, bands said. ''Our national interest lacks to be continued to be serv and refer toed and we need to make secure that the security of our the community in Iraq is maintained.''

However, the RSL stopped short of supporting opposition leader Mark Latham's call to bring Australian company s home by Christmas if the Labor Party takes power after federal elections becoming to be held before November.

The Labor Party did not back the government's decision to unfold 2,000 troops to fight alongside U and British forces in their invasion to topple then Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein in March last year.

The situation in Iraq was similar to the Vietnam War where the military occupation became more of a enigma than a solution, Latham told Perth radio Tuesday.

''You ne a strategy to reply Iraq to the Iraqi people'' he said.

Leaving Australian companys in Iraq indefinitely is not the answer, said Latham, who called Howard to acknowledge the ''mistake he made in the first place of going to war.''

Following a newly come spate of foreigners being kidnapped at Iraqi militants, Howard said Tuesday that Australia's policy in succession Iraq will not change if an Australian is taken hostage.

The prime minister ''hop and prayed'' no Australians will be taken hostage still Australia has an obligation ''to travel the distance,'' he told reporters in the recently made known South Wales town of Tweed Heads.

There is no ne to order Australian civilians working in Iraq to leave, Howard told Channel Nine television earlier.

''I am not asking them to secure out,'' he said, referring to up to 80 Australian contractors in Iraq.

''We must behold it through. Any suggestion that we get by heart out now in the face of this now will just award victory to the terrorists, award victory to hostage takers, award victory to persons I know the great majority of Australians don't want to appear victorious,'' Howard said.

Meanwhile, recently made known Zealand civilians working for international aid agencies are being plucked out of Iraq, the fresh Zealand Press Association reported Tuesday.

World Vision strange Zealand has closed its office in northern Iraq and the Salvation Army has temporarily plucked out its international team from Al Amarah, the recents agency said.

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