by Peter Jennings | Mar 16, 2025 | Policy, Uncategorized
It was all a criminal hoax. That was the headline from this week’s police admission that the explosives-packed caravan found in January at Dural in Sydney’s northwest was never going to cause a mass casualty event. What about the list of Jewish targets found with the...
by Anthony Bergin and Tony Joseph | Feb 12, 2025 | Policy
In January, a caravan was found in Sydney packed with explosives with a note in the vehicle listing Jewish addresses, including a synagogue. Places of worship have long been terrorist targets because of their symbolic value and limited security...
by Peter Jennings | Jan 7, 2025 | Policy
Investigations into the terror attack on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans continue to move fast, with the emerging picture about the assailant, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, becoming more complex. On Friday morning 3 January AEDT, an FBI spokesman told a...
by Peter Jennings | Jan 3, 2025 | Policy
[Note to SAA readers: This article appeared in The Australian on 03 January 2025. Overnight the FBI investigation of the attack concluded that Shamsud-Din Jabbar probably planted two IEDs in the vicinity of Bourbon Street himself, before engaging in his vehicle...
by Anthony Bergin | Aug 26, 2024 | Policy
Australia is facing a rising terror threat. This requires our terrorism alert system to be as effective as possible.This month the terrorism threat level was raised from “possible” to “probable”, in our five-level scale of not expected, possible, probable, expected,...
