Australia's top special forces soldier will quit the army to head the government's top counter-terrorism policy advice body spearheading its war on Al-Qaeda and its regional ally Jemaah Islamiyah, the government announced Wednesday.

Major-General Duncan Lewis, 52, a former commander of the Perth-based Special Air Service Regiment and inaugural head of the Special Operations Command, begins his new job next month, Prime Minister John Howard's office said.

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