Gov't watches terrorist suspects in New Zealand: PM
Xinhua, November 24, 2015 Adjust font size:
About 40 people living in New Zealand are on a watch list suspected of raising money for the Islamic State militant group or trying to go to Syria to fight, said the Prime Minister John Key on Tuesday.
Key told Radio New Zealand that those people on the watch list have been put under both physical and electronic surveillance.
"One or two of them are quite threatening individuals, but I just hasten to say people should take some confidence from the fact they're under 24-hour surveillance so their capacity to do a lot is limited," said Key.
The Prime Minister believed the major concerns were not about the people under surveillance, but the ones that the intelligence agency did not know about.
Key said there would be no change in New Zealand's role in Iraq following a United Nations resolution over the Paris attacks. He said that the role of New Zealand troops currently playing in Iraq to train local soldiers would not be expanded. Endit