16 Quotes by Mick Keelty

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.

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.

I think the issue about the proposed bill was an issue of transparency,

We would have a view to put forward, particularly about identity security and identity fraud, which is something that not only faces the Australian law enforcement community but the law enforcement community across the world.

We've been aware for some time roughly the number of people who have trained overseas and they've been the focus of the attention of both ASIO and the AFP and also the state police in our joint operations,

The operation is a long way from finished. There's a lot more work to go.

To identify the type of explosive that's been used and to try and quickly identify particularly whether they're suicide vests, the origin of those vests, the type of material that's been used in the bomb to try and determine the origins of that and how widely available that is,

This is not something that we can do as Australian Federal Police by ourselves,

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.