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

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,

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...

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,

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

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

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

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.

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,

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...

not news to the intelligence community.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.