"That means that our forces have adequate capability to meet the needs where they can help the fight against terrorism, whether it be in Afghanistan or anywhere else," Costello told Australian television on Wednesday.

"The entire world knows of hundreds who have been incarcerated in Iran's prisons in recent years merely because they had different thoughts. Nevertheless, the liars deny that there are prisoners of conscience in the Islamic Republic. Tehran's Islamic Prosecutor [Saeed Mortazavi] fabricated a few stories about the circumstances of my arrest.

Armed police officers arriving on the scene will be operating a shoot-to-kill policy, aiming for the terrorist's head. They will not shoot at the chest, as is the practice in Britain, for fear that would detonate explosives strapped around the bomber.

Tibi is making the point that it's time for Europe to decide how much European identity belongs in Europe. In other words, "What makes up the civil ... identity of Europe?... Does the opening of Europe to other cultures mean Europe's self-destruction?"