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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Sputnik International
New Zealand attacks inquiry leaves Muslims bewildered and frustrated
Inquiry concludes mosque shootings could not have been prevented, but community in mourning still has questions it wants answered
Jacinda Ardern (R) walks with Gamal Fouda (L), imam of Al Noor mosque, in September as she prepares to unveil plaque in memory of those killed in 2019 shootings (AFP) By Published date: 11 December 2020 18:51 UTC | Last update: 4 months ago
Ever since a far-right extremist entered two mosques in New Zealand and opened fire on innocent worshippers, the country has grappled with the question of whether the attack could have been prevented.
On 15 March 2019, a gunman killed 51 people at the Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch.
Unfortunately that was far from the case. The Royal Commission’s report depicts the counter-terrorism effort across government agencies SIS, Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), Police as lacking clear leadership and, despite the layers of bureaucracy and reports, ill-equipped and under-resourced to gather intelligence and identify new threats. The picture presented of the agencies as they operated before the terrorist attack in Christchurch is one of blinkered organisations, focused almost entirely on the threat of Islamic extremism, and acting without much co-ordination or urgency to address non-Islamic terrorism threats, even when they some were highlighted. It appears also that there was little input from politicians and almost no effort to make the public aware of how they could contribute to mitigating the risk of domestic terrorism.