Terror laws designed to stop Kiwis joining Isis results in eight passports cancelled or suspended
"If all eight of those people had their travel documents removed, refused, etc, because it was suspected or known that they were going to fight for Daesh [Islamic State], that's a lot of extra sympathisers for a country of this size, and that's scary," Buchanan said.
The drastic measures were taken based on information from the SIS that the individuals concerned were a "national security threat".
A Christchurch teen radicalized online and caught plotting a terror attack was sentenced to intensive supervision earlier this year. (report NOV 2018) The youth, who had planned to drive a car into a group of people and then stab them, is currently being monitored by GPS and living in supervised accommodation.
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related: AUG 2014 Alleged terrorist, Daryl Jones, worked for airlines http://archive.is/fTybu
DEATH MYSTERY: Daryl Jones, who worked for Air New Zealand and then Qantas.
Daryl Jones, the New Zealander killed alongside al Qaeda militants in Yemen, was first introduced to Islam by a cluster of co-workers at Qantas, says his best friend.
The Sunday Star-Times can reveal the alleged terrorist had links to the aviation industry, including working as a "pre-apprentice" for Air New Zealand.
Jeremy Rex of Christchurch has described how he and Jones travelled to Sydney around 2003 to take up jobs with Qantas in its aircraft maintenance division. Qantas placed Jones in a flat with three Muslim men, and half his co-workers were Muslim.
Jones, from a strong Christian family, initially resisted their pressure, but over the three years he was with Qantas he gradually became more and more immersed in Islamic culture and eventually converted.
Rex said he found it hard to believe his friend could have joined al Qaeda, and called on the New Zealand Government to provide proof Jones was a terrorist. "Where is the evidence? I haven't seen any evidence at all relating to why they justified killing a guy without a trial. What justifies an unmanned plane flying above you and shooting a rocket into your car?"
Last week the Sunday Star-Times revealed details of Jones' background for the first time, including that his father was a former Australian police officer who worked in a sensitive security role for a government agency in Christchurch, and his younger brother, Nathan, helped run a drop-in centre in Christchurch promoting a puritanical form of Islam.
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