Counter-terrorism

Commissioner Baki made this comment when he officially opened a five day counter-terrorism awareness program yesterday, held at the Stanley Hotel in Port Moresby.

The 5 day workshop is an initiative of the Papua New Guinea-Australia Policing Partnership and is being attended by members of the APEC Joint Security Task Force. The program offers participants the opportunity for networking and learning from key counter-terrorism experts from Australia and the United States of America.

This took place on a high-speed train who was known to intelligence services in three countries.

Counter-terrorism investigators on Saturday formally identified the man as 26-year-old Moroccan Ayoub El-Khazzani, the man investigators suspected early on was the gunman who targeted an Amsterdam to Paris train on Friday.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said earlier that Spanish authorities had notified French intelligence of the man in February 2014 because he belonged to the radical Islamist movement.