{"id":1213,"date":"2015-12-08T02:01:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T02:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2015-12-20T02:05:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T02:05:43","slug":"australia-south-east-asia-must-redouble-efforts-to-avoid-paris-style-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Australia, South-east Asia must &#8216;redouble efforts to avoid Paris-style attacks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mich\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich.jpg 763w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Australia and South-east Asia must redouble efforts to share intelligence and make sure Paris-style terror attacks cannot be replicated in the region, Australian Justice Minister Michael Keenan said on Wednesday (Dec 9).<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of Indonesian Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) sympathisers and some Malaysians and Singaporeans are believed to have gone to fight in Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>South-east Asia faces the risk of attack when they return, Malaysia has said. &#8220;The fact that the national security situation has significantly deteriorated for all of the countries in the region, including Australia, means we need to re-double those efforts,&#8221; Mr Keenan, who is also Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on Counter Terrorism, told Reuters in an interview in Singapore.<br \/>\nISIS claimed responsibility for the deaths of 130 people in attacks in Paris in November, the deadliest in France since World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Keenan also denounced comments by US Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump, who has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States following last week&#8217;s massacre in San Bernardino, California, by a Muslim couple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is entirely the wrong response,&#8221; Mr Keenan said. &#8220;When we look at South-east Asia, we get a good example that we are not somehow at war with a particular religion. And neither do we need to target Muslim Australians or anywhere else in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Australia next week marks the anniversary of a siege in central Sydney in which a gunman with radical Islamist sympathies took over a central city cafe. Two hostages and the gunman were killed when the police stormed the building.<br \/>\nSource: ST\/ Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia and South-east Asia must redouble efforts to share intelligence and make sure Paris-style terror&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[5,9,6,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich.jpg",763,509,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich.jpg",763,509,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich.jpg",763,509,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich.jpg",763,509,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich.jpg",712,475,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mich.jpg",472,315,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Uncategorized","tag_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}