WORLD_ SYRIA_ Troops off to Iraq to protect Aussie staff

20 Jun 2014 - 7:33am
SBS

Troops off to Iraq to protect Aussie staff


Trained killers must be stopped from returning to Australia, Prime Minister Tony Abbott says of Australian jihadists fighting in Iraq and Syria.

Source AAP
20 Jun 2014 - 7:33 AM UPDATED 36 MINS AGO

Australian jihadists who are "trained killers" and who "hate our way of life" must be stopped from re-entering the country, Prime Minister Tony Abbott warns.

In his strongest words yet about Australians fighting in Iraq and Syria, Mr Abbott said the government had "absolute determination" to prevent "returning jihadis".

"The important thing is to ensure that as far as is humanly possible, they don't come back into our country," he told Macquarie Radio on Friday.

"And if they do come back into our country, (that) they are taken into detention."

Australia can't have "trained killers who hate our way of life, who hate us, making mischief with the potential to cause mayhem in our country", he said.

"Secure borders is not just a question of stopping the illegal (asylum-seeker) boats that have been coming to our country under Labor. It's also a question of ensuring that we don't get these jihadists coming back to our country trained up in the techniques of death and destruction."

Up to 100 Australians are believed to be involved in groups fighting in Iraq and Syria, the prime minister said.

"Some of them are involved with this murderous, murderous al-Qaeda splinter group," Mr Abbott said, referring to the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS).

"Some of them are involved in atrocities."

Australia will do its "damnedest" to ensure they never come back to the country, he said.

"And if there are some that we have to take back, we will make sure that they are not a threat to the Australian community," he said.

He said the opposition had been offered a briefing on the government's plans to stop returning jihadists.

"I think that (Opposition Leader) Bill Shorten is just as keen as I am to ensure that when it comes to protecting our country against this kind of thing, we are of one mind," Mr Abbott said.

Meanwhile he said Australia hadn't yet been asked to take part in military intervention in Iraq's ongoing conflict.

"We are a very strong and close ally of the United States," he said.

"It's possible that we will be asked for help and obviously we'll carefully consider any request that we get."

The government was focused on ensuring Australians in Baghdad were safe and that it was able to respond to any eventuality in the city, he added.


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