The nature of the July London bombings reveals that Australia faces a steep learning curve to meet the terrorist threat, warns John Miller, a former senior intelligence officer.”The purpose of terror is to terrorise” – Vladimir Ilich Lenin on the formation of the CHEKA, forerunner of the Soviet KGB.”The objective of Arab terrorism is to terrorise the civilian population, traumatise their norms and values, rock the economic and political establishment and destroy the modernism that threatens the …
