Mick Keelty Quotations

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.

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.

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,

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.

But how well organized they are, what their capacity is to actually mount any operation remains to be seen,

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.

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,

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.