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Australia fourth on terror list: expert
Australia was now fourth on the world's terror attack hit list, with Qantas the most likely target, the country's leading terror expert said.
Australian National University Director of Terrorism Studies Clive Williams told an industry security conference in Brisbane that Australia could now be considered the fourth most likely country to be targeted by a terrorism attack.
"Australia's involvement in a war in Iraq will inevitably increase our profile, and I'm pretty sure that (al-Qaeda leader Osama) Bin Laden will quite quickly seize on the fact that we are one of the three countries that are combatants," Mr Williams said.
"That will probably make us number four on the hit list - the US will be first, Israel will be second, the UK will be third."
Mr Williams said Australia's involvement in Iraq had implications for high profile businesses, with Qantas, as possibly the best known business overseas, the most likely target.
"Clearly where a brand is identified with Australia, like Qantas for example, I think the level of threat to those sort of businesses will be higher," Mr Williams told reporters outside the conference.
"If I was thinking about an international brand that was identified with Australia, Qantas would come to mind first."
Mr Williams said no company could completely protect itself from attack, but Qantas was well prepared.
"Qantas has got a very good record in this area, they've always been very diligent about their security planning," he said.
"They have probably done as much as they can do to safeguard their passengers."
Mr Williams said all airlines would be planning to divert flights away from Iraq and the Middle East region in the event of war, a decision which would increase costs.
Mr Williams said it was more likely an attack on Australians or Australian interests would take place overseas.
"Since the turn of the millennium, 101 Australians have died overseas and if you go back 100 years, 20 odd people have died in Australia as a result of politically-motivated violence," he said.
"Clearly the risk is way higher overseas, simply because it is a lot easier to attack us overseas than it is to attack us in Australia."
He warned the risk of terrorism attacks through food poisoning was growing, with poisons such as ricin likely agents.
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Australia fourth on terror list: expert
Australia was now fourth on the world's terror attack hit list, with Qantas the most likely target, the country's leading terror expert said.
Australian National University Director of Terrorism Studies Clive Williams told an industry security conference in Brisbane that Australia could now be considered the fourth most likely country to be targeted by a terrorism attack.
"Australia's involvement in a war in Iraq will inevitably increase our profile, and I'm pretty sure that (al-Qaeda leader Osama) Bin Laden will quite quickly seize on the fact that we are one of the three countries that are combatants," Mr Williams said.
"That will probably make us number four on the hit list - the US will be first, Israel will be second, the UK will be third."
Mr Williams said Australia's involvement in Iraq had implications for high profile businesses, with Qantas, as possibly the best known business overseas, the most likely target.
"Clearly where a brand is identified with Australia, like Qantas for example, I think the level of threat to those sort of businesses will be higher," Mr Williams told reporters outside the conference.
"If I was thinking about an international brand that was identified with Australia, Qantas would come to mind first."
Mr Williams said no company could completely protect itself from attack, but Qantas was well prepared.
"Qantas has got a very good record in this area, they've always been very diligent about their security planning," he said.
"They have probably done as much as they can do to safeguard their passengers."
Mr Williams said all airlines would be planning to divert flights away from Iraq and the Middle East region in the event of war, a decision which would increase costs.
Mr Williams said it was more likely an attack on Australians or Australian interests would take place overseas.
"Since the turn of the millennium, 101 Australians have died overseas and if you go back 100 years, 20 odd people have died in Australia as a result of politically-motivated violence," he said.
"Clearly the risk is way higher overseas, simply because it is a lot easier to attack us overseas than it is to attack us in Australia."
He warned the risk of terrorism attacks through food poisoning was growing, with poisons such as ricin likely agents.
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The problem QF has to worry about is not so much international flights, but domestic and more appropriately, regional flights.
Security is a joke at any but capital city airports.
Security is a joke at any but capital city airports.
