Tuesday, 12 January 2021, 3:27 pm
Tom Peters
The report of the Royal Commission of
Inquiry into the Christchurch terror attack, made public
last month, asserts that there was no way any state agency
could have detected fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant and
prevented his massacre of 51 people on March 15,
2019.
This finding is not supported by evidence. All
the inquiry’s hearings were held in secret. Thousands of
pages of submissions, and hundreds of interviews, have been
permanently suppressed.
The commission’s
predetermined purpose was to whitewash the New Zealand and
Australian intelligence agencies and police, and to cover up
the role of governments in both countries in whipping up
New Zealand inquiry covers up police dismissal of anti-Muslim threats prior to 2019 terror attack
The report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terror attack, made public last month, asserts that there was no way any state agency could have detected fascist gunman Brenton Tarrant and prevented his massacre of 51 people on March 15, 2019.
Al Noor mosque in Christchurch (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
This finding is not supported by evidence. All the inquiry’s hearings were held in secret. Thousands of pages of submissions, and hundreds of interviews, have been permanently suppressed.
The commission’s predetermined purpose was to whitewash the New Zealand and Australian intelligence agencies and police, and to cover up the role of governments in both countries in whipping up racism and Islamophobia, including through participation in US imperialist wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The final report was vetted and approved by the intelligence agencies themselves p
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Security agencies too focused on ‘Islamist’ terror in run-up to Christchurch mosques terror attack, inquiry rules
Security agencies too focused on ‘Islamist’ terror in run-up to Christchurch mosques terror attack, inquiry rules
25th Dec 2020
Photos: Students paying tribute to the victims of the Christchurch mosques shooting, March 18, 2019. (Credit: Peter Adones/Anadolu Agency). Right: New Zealand PM, Jacinda Ardern meets with the victims of the shooting.
(Credit: Kirk Hargreaves/Christchurch Council/CC)
Elham Asaad Buaras
New Zealand’s security agencies were “almost exclusively” fixated on the risk of “Islamist terrorism” and the police had failed to enforce appropriate checks on firearm licenses in the run-up to last year’s Christchurch mosques terror attack, in which a gunman shot dead 51 Muslim worshippers, an inquiry into the terror attack has found.