All of us are very surprised at some of the things that have happened in the last, say, 12 months, ... To find, for example, in the U.K. that we have got people who are homegrown terrorists is a big move from where we were, say, four years ago or three years ago. |
All of us are very surprised at some of the things that have happened in the last, say, 12 months. To find, for example, in the U.K. that we have got people who are homegrown terrorists is a big move from where we were, say, four years ago or three years ago. |
But how well organized they are, what their capacity is to actually mount any operation remains to be seen, |
I can confirm to you that a 16-year-old male from Western Australia and a 48-year-old woman from NSW have been killed in the bombing in Bali overnight, |
I think the issue about the proposed bill was an issue of transparency, |
If he is confirmed as being the person who has died in this operation ... it will make a big dent in the operations of the radical terrorist groups in Indonesia. |
In some places they will use a cleric who has a good reputation with the community and who will be respected and listened to by the people in custody. |
It appears that there has been less incendiary chemical used in the bombs and that the injury and the deaths are being caused by shrapnel, |
It's important that we give these people a fair opportunity to prepare their defense before the court rather than run their trial in the media. |
not news to the intelligence community. |
Obviously we're very concerned that other explosives are inside the house, so all that forensic work will be done over the next day or two. |
So in that sense it's not exactly the same as the bombing of the nightclubs in Bali on the October evening back in 2002. |
The Indonesian national police forensic team has quickly been able to determine the number of bombs involved. What we're working with them on now is the actual make-up of the bomb. They're quite a different bomb to the ones we've seen been used before. |
The operation is a long way from finished. There's a lot more work to go. |
They have three heads that they're examining and that's a typical outcome from a suicide bomber, but that's not yet confirmed and that will require further analysis as the evening progresses, |