Nick Tabakoff
news.com.au
Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:22 EST
And he feared a scenario in which a nuclear device was triggered.
Efraim Halevy, former head of Israel's top-secret national intelligence group Mossad, also warned Western societies like Australia were fighting international terrorism "with one arm tied behind their backs".
Mr Halevy said complacency was not an option, despite some recent setbacks for terror organisations.
"I believe the terrorist threat internationally is still a very omnipresent one," he said.
"Despite setbacks al-Qaeda and its proxies have suffered, especially in the allied operations in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, the threat is very present."
This left open prospects of mass-scale terror.











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