Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Australian RhetIraq: PM Howard
Who: Prime Minister John Howard
Source: Brisbane Courier-Mail
Quotes: From article titled National terror threat revealed - 11/1/2005
Prime Minister John Howard said intelligence agencies had received specific information about a terrorist threat and was urging Parliament to enact the laws within 36 hours.
The Prime Minister would not give details on the nature of the threat, citing security reasons.
The amendment will add further grounds for listing militant organisations and "will clarify that it is not necessary for the prosecution to identify a specific terrorist act."
Mr Howard said he had not yet received any information that would require a change in the general terror threat level for Australia.
"If we received advice to that effect, which we have not received, we would respond appropriately to that advice," he said.
"And I am satisfied on what I have been told, and the Government and the national security ministers in Cabinet are satisfied, that that is the case but I do not intend and cannot and will not go into any of the operational details."
Source: Brisbane Courier-Mail
Quotes: From article titled National terror threat revealed - 11/1/2005
Prime Minister John Howard said intelligence agencies had received specific information about a terrorist threat and was urging Parliament to enact the laws within 36 hours.
The Prime Minister would not give details on the nature of the threat, citing security reasons.
The amendment will add further grounds for listing militant organisations and "will clarify that it is not necessary for the prosecution to identify a specific terrorist act."
Mr Howard said he had not yet received any information that would require a change in the general terror threat level for Australia.
"If we received advice to that effect, which we have not received, we would respond appropriately to that advice," he said.
"And I am satisfied on what I have been told, and the Government and the national security ministers in Cabinet are satisfied, that that is the case but I do not intend and cannot and will not go into any of the operational details."
