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ASIO has issued a rare public statement declaring it holds “grave concerns” about the accuracy of an ABC investigation into the Bondi massacre set to air on Four Corners on Monday night and warning of further action if false claims are broadcast.

The statement released on Sunday evening claims the ABC has relied in part on an “unreliable and disgruntled” source who had misidentified one of the alleged gunmen, 24-year-old Naveed Akram, and confused some of his actions before the attack with things done by someone else.

The ABC is standing by the story, which it said used extensive reporting and numerous sources to examine the Akrams’ actions leading up to the attack.

ASIO, which has not seen the program, said its ability to respond to Four Corners′ questions was constrained as it did not want to risk prejudicing the royal commission into antisemitism and the ongoing criminal investigation against Akram.

Akram has been charged with murdering 15 people in the December 14 attack, in which his father and alleged co-conspirator Sajid Akram was shot dead by police.

The first of two parts of Four Corners′ investigation was led by reporter Mark Willacy, airing last week. It provided an account of the events of the day of the attack, told by those present. The second part, led by reporter Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, will investigate “the secret lives of the terrorists, uncovering astonishing new information about the years leading up to the attack”, according to the ABC.

ASIO’s statement, made in response to unknown ABC questions and released publicly in an unusual pre-emptive move, notes that the domestic intelligence agency investigated Naveed Akram in 2019 using its “most sensitive capabilities.”

“We assessed he did not adhere to or intend to engage in violent extremism at that time. Having reviewed all available intelligence, we stand by our assessment at that point in time,” the statement said. “Four Corners’ claims contain significant errors of fact.”

ASIO said “if the ABC chooses to publish claims it cannot substantiate [...] we will reserve our right to take further action.”

The Bondi royal commission is required to complete its first report by April. It will examine, among other things, whether Australia’s intelligence and law enforcement services were as effective as they could have been in stopping the attack, how they co-operated and whether they were hampered by legal rules.

ASIO said an ABC source had a track record of making statements that are untrue. The agency rejected previously reported claims that Naveed Akram is a close associate of terrorists.

“The claims Four Corners is making were investigated at the time and found to be unsubstantiated,” ASIO said.

“The ABC’s source mis-identified Naveed Akram. That is, the source claimed Naveed Akram said and did things that were actually said and done by an entirely different person. To be clear, Four Corners′ source mis-identified Naveed Akram, and therefore the associated claims are untrue.”

An ABC spokesperson defended the program as a comprehensive investigation examining the events leading up to the worst terrorist attack on Australian soil.

“Four Corners spoke to numerous people and provides a number of sources of information for a detailed picture of the Akrams’ actions and associations in the years leading up to the Bondi attack,” the spokesperson said.

“Detailed questions were put to ASIO and its response is reflected in the story. The public will be able to watch the full investigation tonight.”

Rubinsztein-Dunlop declined to comment.

ASIO also rejected expected ABC accusations of understaffing and suggestions that redundancies at the intelligence agency in 2020 might have contributed in some way to its ability to prevent the massacre.

“The claim any resourcing decision increased the likelihood of the Bondi attack is false, irresponsible and demonstrates profound ignorance of ASIO’s prioritisation frameworks and enduring investment in counterterrorism,” ASIO said.

“Tragically, ASIO did not know what the perpetrators of the Bondi attack were planning – or indeed that they were planning anything.”

ASIO said given the questions the ABC asked and that reporter Rubinsztein-Dunlop had “previously broadcast false claims about ASIO and the Akrams”, it held “grave concerns about the accuracy of the proposed story”.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/asio-v-abc-broadcaster-stands-by-bondi-investigation-after-spy-agency-rebuke-20260209-p5o0mb.html

 

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mossad?....

A former undercover agent has made explosive claims that he shared intelligence with Australia's spy agency, ASIO, about gunman Naveed Akram's terrorist associations and alleged radicalisation, six years before the Bondi Beach attack.

ASIO investigated the information in 2019 but said it could not substantiate it, concluding Akram, then a teenager, did not present a terrorism threat or subscribe to violent extremist ideology.

Four Corners has traced the interactions of Naveed Akram and his father, Sajid, with Australian authorities and Islamic State (IS) extremists in the years before they killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration on December 14.

A former undercover agent, codenamed Marcus, has told the program he is willing to give evidence to the royal commission that he reported to ASIO in 2019 that both Naveed and Sajid Akram supported IS.

ASIO interviewed both father and son as part of a six-month investigation into Naveed Akram, which assessed the teenager was not a terrorist threat or IS supporter.

The agency also found no evidence that Sajid Akram was radicalised, according to comments from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in December.

Sajid Akram was later granted a firearms licence and the pair travelled to a former Islamic State hotspot in the Philippines, without triggering an alert, in the lead-up to the attack.

The former spy reveals astonishing new information about the Akrams in Four Corners' Bondi: Path to Terror. Watch now on ABC iview.

From the age of 17, Naveed Akram associated with members of a terror cell and acolytes of radical cleric Wisam Haddad, a spiritual leader of Australia's pro-IS network.

Naveed was in contact with several men who were later convicted of terrorism offences, including the self-declared commander of IS in Australia, Isaac El Matari, and IS youth recruiter Youssef Uweinat.

The terrorists were monitored by Marcus, who posed as their imam and teacher.

Marcus told Four Corners he reported to ASIO that El Matari discussed his plans with Naveed to carry out attacks in Sydney.

"What happened on Bondi Beach was a result of a set of errors and a disregard for information," Marcus said.

"How [could] someone like this [have] fled out of ASIO and Australian authorities' radar?"

ASIO told Four Corners the claims were investigated and "found to be unsubstantiated".

It said Marcus "misidentified Naveed Akram".

"ASIO investigated Naveed Akram in 2019, using our most sensitive capabilities," ASIO said in a statement.

"We assessed he did not adhere to or intend to engage in violent extremism at that time.

"Having reviewed all available intelligence, we stand by our assessment at that point in time.

"The source claimed Naveed Akram said and did things that were actually said and done by an entirely different person … Therefore, the associated claims are untrue."

Marcus described ASIO's claim as "false and unsubstantiated".

"I strongly deny ASIO's allegation that I ever misidentified Naveed Akram, someone I met on a regular, face-to-face basis over many years."

ASIO declined to respond to further questions and requests for clarification.

It said it was constrained by an ongoing investigation, court case and the royal commission.

Naveed Akram has been charged with 59 offences, including terrorism and murder. Sajid Akram was shot dead by police.

The 'brainwashing' of Naveed Akram

Marcus is revealing what he knew about the Akrams, after first warning Four Corners eight months before the Bondi attack that Australia was dangerously exposed to an IS network he had infiltrated.

ASIO recruited him from his home country in the Middle East and paid him as a human source, officially defined as an "agent", to monitor Sydney's IS network between 2017 and 2023.

He told Four Corners he first reported Naveed Akram to ASIO after attending itikaf, a 10-night religious retreat for Ramadan, with the 17-year-old and a small group of IS supporters including Isaac El Matari.

Marcus alleged that during itikaf at Sydney's Othman Bin Affan Mosque, El Matari shared with Naveed his plans to attempt to smuggle firearms from Lebanon for terrorist attacks in Sydney.

Marcus claimed the group tried to brainwash Naveed with graphic IS videos, calling for attacks in Australia.

He claimed he reported this in confidential meetings with his ASIO handlers.

"They [ASIO] became interested because it's a very serious matter," he said. "They asked me to put an eye on him [Naveed]."

Four Corners has not been able to independently verify the substance of Marcus's conversations with ASIO or of Naveed's interactions with the El Matari group.

Multiple sources have confirmed Marcus, Naveed Akram and El Matari were at the mosque.

Othman Bin Affan Mosque told Four Corners that during itikaf, Naveed Akram was engaging with a small group of men, including El Matari, who were later expelled from the mosque because of their "hostile, confrontational" behaviour.

The mosque's president said the men had no link to the mosque and "do not represent us in any way".

"Othman Bin Affan Mosque stands firmly against extremism and hate. We don't tolerate it," he said in a statement.

"If we had known there was any link to extremism or any threat to safety, we would have reported it."

El Matari was arrested a month after itikaf and later jailed for seven years for planning terrorist attacks and attempting to travel to Afghanistan to join IS.

Court documents show police secretly recorded El Matari in the weeks before and after itikaf, as he attempted to recruit fellow IS supporters for an insurgency in Sydney and the Blue Mountains.

In one conversation — just days before itikaf and more than six years before the Bondi attack — El Matari plotted to spend "half a decade" building a network of IS fighters in the bush and the city.

"We keep brothers as sleepers … brothers that are trusted with sending them on missions, brothers that send money … brothers that plan the attacks, brothers that bomb places of political significance," he said on May 22, 2019.

"These are all places they are open to the public. There's no security protecting them."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-09/bondi-shooting-spy-claims-told-asio-terror-links-four-corners/106306092

 

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METHINKS, MOSSAD, ON WHICH ASIO RELIES HEAVILY, PREVENTED ANY INVESTIGATION INTO NAVEED... SUBTLY OFF COURSE.... WHY?

MOSSAD "NEEDS" ENEMIES EVERYWHERE.... ESPECIALLY IN PEACEFUL COUNTRIES...

 

 

whistleblow.....

The brother of Julian Assange has thrown his support behind a former spy living in exile who made public allegations about ASIO failures leading up to the Bondi Beach terror attack.

Former undercover agent Marcus — whose real name has been withheld to protect his safety — told Four Corners eight months before 15 people were killed in the December 14 attack that Australia was exposed to a pro-Islamic State (IS) network he had infiltrated.

Marcus appeared on the program this week to allege he shared intelligence with ASIO about gunmen Naveed and Sajid Akram's alleged terrorism associations as far back as 2019.

The father-son duo are accused of draping IS flags on the younger man's car before opening fire on Jewish Australians celebrating Hanukkah.

Naveed Akram, 24, has been charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder.

Sajid Akram was shot dead at the scene.

ASIO told Four Corners it investigated the information at the time, but it could not substantiate it, concluding Naveed Akram, then a teenager, did not present a terrorist threat or subscribe to violent extremist ideology.

Marcus disagreed with the assessment that Naveed Akram was not radicalised at that time.

"What happened on Bondi Beach was a result of a set of errors and a disregard for information," he told Four Corners.

'There are threats against his life'

Registered whistleblower support charity The Information Rights Project has now launched a fundraiser in support of Marcus.

Founder and director Gabriel Shipton claimed Marcus was "basically on the run" now.

"He can't earn a living, he's not able to work in the country he's in," Mr Shipton said.

"It's a very precarious existence for him.

"There are … credible threats against his life from the organisation that he infiltrated on behalf of ASIO, while he was working for ASIO, as well as … [ASIO] discrediting Marcus."

Asked about Mr Shipton's comments, an ASIO spokesperson referred the ABC to ASIO director-general Mike Burgess's comments to a Senate estimates hearing this week in which herejected the suggestion Akrams' extremism was longstanding.

He said ASIO's report would set out the agency's position and the royal commission would "make their own judgements".

An ASIO spokesperson said in a statement: "If 'Marcus' faces credible threats following the ABC's decision to identify him as having allegedly penetrated terrorist groups, we encourage immediate engagement with law enforcement."

The ABC understands Marcus is currently separated from his family while protecting himself in a safe location.

Money raised would be used to pay for accommodation and day-to-day living expenses until permanent refuge was found, Mr Shipton said.

Marcus 'unreliable and disgruntled', ASIO says

Mr Shipton launched The Information Rights Project in 2024 while supporting his brother, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was imprisoned on charges connected to his handling of classified US war documents.

He said Mr Assange had predicted ASIO would try to discredit its former agent after he made allegations about the domestic spy agency.

ASIO has publicly described Marcus as "unreliable and disgruntled" — a claim Marcus has denied.

"I spoke to [Julian] in the lead-up, and he said exactly what's happening: that ASIO will come, they will try and discredit Marcus and distance themselves from this, and it exactly happened like he said it would," Mr Shipton said.

The relationship between Marcus and ASIO disintegrated well before he went public with his allegations about the agency.

Marcus was charged in 2022 with multiple accounts of assault and stalking, which were later withdrawn and dismissed.

His cover was also blown, and he took out a restraining order, telling a Sydney court that extremists threatened to harm him because they discovered his work with ASIO.

ASIO withdrew its support for his permanent residency, and he left the country in 2023.

He is now seeking assistance from Australia for protection and resettlement, and has offered to give evidence to the royal commission examining the Bondi terror attack.

Mr Shipton called on Australians to support Marcus, describing him as a whistleblower.

"Whistleblowers play such an important part in our society, and we really need to get behind them when they blow the whistle, when they bring us this sort of information, to know that they've got our support," he said.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-12/julian-assange-s-brother-supporting-former-spy-living-in-exile/106334144

 

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conspiracy....

On Monday, ASIO issued a warning to the ABC about Four Corners running its second episode on the Bondi massacre. ABC ran it anyway. What did ASIO fear, Al the Writer asks?

When an intelligence agency threatens a broadcaster with legal action before a program airs, something is wrong. Either the program is genuinely defamatory, or the agency fears what will be revealed.

ABC’s Four Corners aired Monday night despite ASIO’s unprecedented pre-emptive warning.

On the program, former undercover agent “Marcus” claims he warned ASIO in 2019 that seventeen-year-old Naveed Akram was being radicalised by ISIS cell members. ASIO investigated for six months, then concluded he was no threat.  However, it is now clear Akram’s links to multiple individuals should have raised red flags.

What to make of ASIO’s statement?

Misidentification?

ASIO’s statement is unequivocal: “The ABC’s source misidentified Naveed Akram. That is, the source claimed Naveed Akram said and did things that were actually said and done by an entirely different person.”

Whether ASIO means Marcus misidentified Naveed in a specific conversation or confused him entirely remains unclear. ASIO also says, “this source also has a track record of making statements that are untrue,” although it is unclear whether ASIO is referring to ‘Marcus’, their own operative, or someone else.

However, there is possible evidence contradicting claims that ‘Marcus’ did not know who Naveed Akram was. As reported by MWM, Wisam Haddad himself, the network’s so-called ‘spiritual leader’, stated in a now deleted post that there was video footage of Marcus and Naveed together.

The 2022 YouTube link has subsequently been removed, but evidence, including a spelling mistake, suggests it existed.

Haddad is the last person who would benefit from making this claim, alleged well before this latest Four Corners episode.  If Haddad knows his own network, and he confirmed they were together, the misidentification claim seems misplaced. Critically, this suggests ASIO operatives may have been surveilling Naveed Akram well beyond 2019.

Semantics

ASIO states: “We assessed (Naveed) did not adhere to or intend to engage in violent extremism at that time. Having reviewed all available intelligence,

we stand by our assessment at that point in time.

This appears to be semantics. Nobody claims the Akrams were violent extremists in 2019. Both MWM and the ABC reported evidence that it looked like they had been radicalised and were consorting with what we now know were potentially violent extremists.

Coupled with gun licenses and trips to the Philippines, one would presume red flags should have risen. The issue isn’t whether ASIO knew in 2019 that there would be an attack at a Hanukkah event on that specific day. The issue is whether warning signs were ignored.

How close is too close?

ASIO also refutes the claim that Naveed was “a close associate” of known terrorists: “There is a significant difference between attending a prayer centre with a large gathering of people and being a ‘close associate’ of known terrorists.”

Is this splitting hairs? We have evidence of Naveed with multiple individuals charged with terrorism-related crimes or considered radical. How close is too close when there are multiple links to people potentially or of concern in different contexts?

Youssef Uweinat: A known associate who served nearly four years for grooming minors to launch attacks via Haddad’s AMDC. Uweinat acted as a youth leader at Haddad’s prayer centre and was photographed with an ISIS flag in August 2024, four months before Bondi.

Isaac El Matari declared himself ‘Australian commander of Islamic State’ and received seven years and four months for plotting to attack St Mary’s Cathedral and the American Embassy. The Othman Bin Affan Mosque confirmed Naveed attended a 2019 Ramadan retreat with El Matari, who was arrested in July 2019. Prime Minister Albanese confirmed that two people Akram was associated with in 2019 were charged and jailed.

Mr Ye Ye and the Street Dawah Network

In 2019 videos, seventeen-year-old Naveed Akram stood outside Bankstown train station preaching about Islam. The Street Dawah Movement confirmed Akram appeared in its videos “a few times” in 2019, according to The Australian ($), though claimed he wasn’t a member and none of its members knew him personally.

It’s difficult to determine who runs Street Dawah, but many affiliated with AMDC, including El Matari and others, were associated with Naveed’s Dawah activities.

Haddad operated a van street-preaching service, officially registered in 2022. Haddad’s Dawah Van Incorporated was registered as a charity but stripped of its charity status after the Four Corners episode aired. Among those associated with its governance is Mr Ye Ye, whom Four Corners described as a recruiter for Haddad’s more radical endeavours.

Perhaps ASIO’s classified intelligence vindicates their 2019 assessment.

But until they explain how all these independent sources corroborate what they claim is a misidentification, questions persist.

Fifteen families deserve answers about what was known, when it was known, and whether different decisions might have prevented this tragedy. The Royal Commission will determine if those answers exist.

https://michaelwest.com.au/four-corners-ran-bondi-story-despite-asio-threats-who-to-believe/

 

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CONSIDER THIS CONSPIRACY THEORY:

— MOSSAD HAS COVERT CONTROL OF MUSLIM AGENTS AND TERRORISTS AROUND THE WORLD.

— [THE CIA/PENTAGON ALSO CONTROL ISIS AND AL QAEDA "AGENTS"]

— MOSSAD USES THESE AS TROUBLE-MAKERS IN MANY COUNTRIES, INCLUDING IRAN

— THESE AGENTS AND TERRORISTS DO NOT KNOW THAT THEY ARE UNDER MOSSAD'S CONTROL

— THE SAME SECRET PSYCHOLOGICAL METHODS/MANIPULATIONS WERE USED DURING WW2

 

— ASIO IS UNDER THE THUMB OF MOSSAD [DEPENDENT OF MOSSAD'S INFORMATION]

— MOSSAD HAS GUIDED ASIO AWAY FROM NAVEED IN ORDER TO KEEP HIM [AND OTHERS] AS "AGENT"

— NAVEED AND HIS FATHER ARE "INDOCTRINATED"... MOSSAD KNOWS THE "BACK-ALLEY WAY".

— ASIO IS NOT FOLLOWING NAVEED'S INDOCTRINATION AFTER "ASSESSMENT" (MOSSAD)

— MARCUS STRONGLY ADVISES ASIO THAT NAVEED IS INDOCTRINATED TO BECOME A "TERRORIST"

— ASIO DISMISSES THE INFORMATION [UNDER MOSSAD'S INFLUENCE]

 

— BURGESS GRANDSTANDS ABOUT THREATS BY THIS AND THAT COUNTRY [CHINA, RUSSIA, WOOPWOOP]

 

— ALBO RECOGNISES A PALESTINIAN STATE...

— NETANYAHU IS PISSED OFF AND WANTS REVENGE, DESTROYING ALBO'S SERENE POPULARITY

— MOSSAD'S BACK CHANNEL "ACTIVATES" NAVEED AND HIS FATHER

 

BONDI

— A JEWISH RELIGIOUS CELEBRATION

— MAXIMUM NUMBER OF JEWS IN ONE SPOT

— LOUSY SECURITY [TOTALLY FLIMSY]

— THE KILLING FIELD AT BONDI HAS BEEN "CHOSEN" (SUGGESTED) BY MOSSAD

 

JEWS KILLING JEWS [USING MUSLIM TERRORIST]?

— THIS TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN USED SINCE 1947, IN ORDER TO VICTIMISE PALESTINIANS EVER SINCE

— THIS WAS USED ON OCTOBER 7 2023: THE HANNIBAL DOCTRINE [MANY JEWS KILLED BY IDF]

— THE HIGH POSSIBILITY THAT OCTOBER 7 2023 HAD BEEN "SET UP" [INSPIRED] BY MOSSAD

— THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN ADVISED OCTOBER 7 2023 WAS GOING TO HAPPENED

 

BONDI TERRORIST ATTACK COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE:

— ONLY 15 DEAD AND AROUND 40 INJURED.

— INCREASE OF DIVISION IN AUSTRALIA BETWEEN SUPPORT FOR ZIONISM AND PALESTINIANS

— THE ZIONISTS PUSHING FOR A "ROYAL COMMISSION"

— ALBO DEMANDING A PROPER INVESTIGATION INTO THE EVENT, RATHER THAT A SOB-FEST...

— ALBO BACKPEDALLING

 

VISIT OF HERZOG, AN OFFICIAL GENOCIDAL ZIONIST, TO "SOOTHE THE JEWISH COMMUNITY"

— VISIT DESIGNED TO STIR DIVISIONS IN AUSTRALIA: PROTESTS IN SYDNEY, CANBERRA AND MELBOURNE

— ALBO WEAKENED — LUCKY, THE OPPOSITION IS IN LALALAND, EXCEPT THE TRUMPIST ONE NATION...

 

NOTE: BIBI'S REVENGE AGAINST ALBO HAS NOT ENDED YET

— MORE TROUBLE TO COME

— ISRAEL TAKES GAZA AND THE WEST BANK WITH "IMPUNITY"

— ALBO DOESN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE RUBBISH DONALD'S "BOARD OF PEACE", WHICH IS SECRETLY DESIGNED TO DISPLACE/EXTERMINATE THE PALESTINIANS...

 

END OF CONSPIRACY THEORY?... 

[GUSNOTE: SUCH THEORY IS NO THEORY... THE TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN APPLIED MANY TIMES BEFORE, WITH DIFFERENT ACTORS AND TARGETED SET-UPS, IN OTHER COUNTRIES]

NEXT: ASIO NEEDS TO BE 100 TIMES MORE AWARE OF INCOMING CRAP [NOT FROM RUSSIA OR CHINA, BUT FROM ISRAEL]

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