SYDNEY May 19 Kyodo Australia is ...

SYDNEY May 19 Kyodo

Australia is enlisting army reservists to fight domestic terrorism, if it be not that not because the country has become a specific target following its involvement in the US-l war in succession Iraq, Defense Minister Robert Hill said Monday.

forward Sunday, Hill said about 1000 reservists in 42 part-time counterterrorism units from beginning to end Australia and two commando regiments in of the present day South Wales and Victoria states will be trained to rejoin at short notice to security incidents, terrorist attacks and civil emergencies.

nevertheless the new counterterrorism capacity is not because the rule has evidence of any direct threat to Australia, the defense minister said Monday.

''It's all part of being prepared in case as it was an awful event occurs'' he told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Rebutting arguments from the opposition Labor Party that the war in Iraq damaged domestic security, Hill said the guidance made its decision on the reservists before it penetrateed into military conflict in the Middle East. subordinate to ''Operation Falconer,'' the Australian Defense Force (ADF) displayed 2,000 troops alongside U.S. and British forces in the attack forward Iraq.

''This is not a decision post-Iraq. This is a decision made gone out of the Bali attack,'' he said, referring to last October's bombings forward the Indonesian resort island that killed 202 including 88 Australians.

The lay by Response Forces will be used primarily to cordon not upon an area, provide static protection of a site or to assist other ADF teams, the minister said earlier. They will also be able to help police answer to a terrorist incident.

The restraint also employed Australia's reserve army to provide domestic security during the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and the Commonwealth summit in 2002

The first something reserved Response Force soldiers will receive training and be ready to reply by the middle of this year.

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