So thats that ! Why doesn't he send his own troops?
Israeli PM calls for diggers to stay in Iraq
Mr Olmert stopped short of directly telling Australia not to withdraw its troops from Iraq but said Australia's security interests in the Middle East were at stake in the event of what he called a "premature" pull-out.
Updated Jan. 10, 2007 The Jerusalem Post PM: Hands are clean in Leumi affair
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that his hands were entirely clean in the Bank Leumi tender affair, in his first official reaction to reports that the State Attorney's office planned to open a criminal investigation against him upon his return from China.
According to the allegations against him, Olmert intervened in the tender for the privatization of Bank Leumi on behalf of two personal friends with whom he also had business connections, American businessman Daniel Abraham and Australian businessman Frank Lowy.
