{"id":25498,"date":"2020-12-08T13:32:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T04:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/christchurch-shooting-new-zealand-security-agencies-were-focused-on-islamist-terror-inquiry-finds"},"modified":"2020-12-08T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T04:32:27","slug":"christchurch-shooting-security-agencies-were-focused-on-islamist-terror-inquiry-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25498","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch shooting: security agencies were focused on Islamist terror, inquiry finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern apologises for police and security failings but says they would not have stopped the attack<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s security agencies were \u201calmost exclusively\u201d focused on the threat from Islamist terrorism at the time of the 2019 Christchurch shooting, in which a gunman shot dead 51 Muslim worshippers, an inquiry into the country\u2019s worst peacetime massacre has found.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark Christchurch royal commission <a href=\"https:\/\/christchurchattack.royalcommission.nz\/\">report<\/a>, which was released on Tuesday after 20 months of consultation, also revealed police failed to enforce proper checks on firearm licences.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/christchurch-shooting-new-zealand-security-agencies-were-focused-on-islamist-terror-inquiry-finds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern apologises for police and security failings but says they would not have stopped the attackNew Zealand\u2019s security agencies were \u201calmost exclusively\u201d focused on the threat from Islamist terrorism at the time of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,214,213,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christchurch","category-christchurch-shooting","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25499,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25498\/revisions\/25499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}