http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/police-call-for-muslim-help-in-safety-fight/2005/07/20/1121539033452.htmlThe NSW Deputy Police Commissioner, Andrew Scipione, has pleaded to Sydney Muslims to work with police to “keep Australia safe” and prevent a terrorist attack he fears is virtually inevitable.Mr Scipione’s call came as Muslim groups wrote to the Prime Minister, John Howard, urging him to set up an anti-terrorism summit as part of a campaign against Islamic extremism, in the wake of the London bombings.
Mr Scipione, who heads the police counter-terrorism command, said plots had been foiled in Sydney. He was operating on the basis of when, not if, a terrorist attack would happen.
He quoted an IRA warning made in 1984 to the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher after the assassination attempt on her: “We’ve only got to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.”
The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils proposed the summit in a fax sent to Mr Howard yesterday. It would address inflammatory literature, the training of imams and a proposed migration restriction on radical overseas clerics, said the organisation’s president, Ameer Ali.
“It must be bipartisan