OPINION: NZ must go further to reduce risk of future terror attacks
Another set of laws needing to be re-examined relate to how a Sri Lankan national who was a known high-level security risk managed to reside in New Zealand.This includes refugees. If compelling reasons of national security can be shown in a court of law with all appropriate safeguards, they too should be expelled.
This may be the biggest gap in our defences this time. But when the review is done, we must have zero tolerance for extremists, of any flavour, who represent a serious threat to national security.The attack was classified as an act of terrorism because it was done with the purpose of advancing an ideological, political, or religious cause that intended to cause terror in the country or force the government to change a position.The world has watched the influence of ISIS in Afghanistan.
The focus was primarily on New Zealand ISIS operatives overseas, but the influence in New Zealand was not invisible.
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