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September 11th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
FORMER PM John Howard says the terrorism attacks in the US and Bali a decade ago lifted the importance of national security with Australians.
Mr Howard said the terrorist acts on September 11 in the US followed by the Bali bombings 13 months later had a “very big impact” on the government and the population.
Nearly 3000 people died in the US following an orchestrated attack by al-Qaeda in 2001.
In October 2002, a total of 202 people were killed, including 88 Australians, in Bali.
“It mattered a great deal,” he told Sky News on Sunday.
“People began to think of national security in a way I hadn’t experienced in all the time I had been in politics.”
Mr Howard was elected to federal parliament in 1974.
The former PM said the attacks had also elevated the significance of national security at a policy level.
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“What it did was to give national security equal billing with economic management,” Mr Howard said.
“Up until then my prime ministership had really been dominated by economic management.”
Attorney-General Robert McClelland today said a terrorist attack on Australian soil from homegrown terrorists was feasible.
But he said there was evidence there was one planned.
Since the deadly September 11 terrorist attacks in New York a decade ago, Australia had foiled four domestic terrorist attacks, Mr McClelland said.
Of the 38 people charged with planning the attacks, 21 were born in Australia.
“If you’re looking at the history, the major threat has been from the so-called homegrown potential terrorists,” Mr McClelland told Network Ten on Sunday.
“A terrorist attack is feasible in Australia but there’s no specific evidence of an intended one at the current time.”
Mr McClelland said each time he signed warrants for investigations into terrorist activity in Australia the material in them raised his concerns.
“But I should stress the scope and focus of the investigation is a very, very narrow group of people but nonetheless they are a group that would be intent on harming their fellow citizens,” he said.
Australia had decided not to develop a national security strategy on top of a national security statement because after studying overseas experiences the government had decided it could create confusion.
Mr McClelland said Australia was continuing to work with Indonesia to thwart terrorism and the level of resources to do so was constantly reviewed.
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