16/12/2025
"BONDI ATTACKERS had ‘no plan to escape,’ says expert By Cydonee Mardon, News.com.au
It has become glaringly obvious that the Bondi terror attackers never planned to escape alive, a counter terrorism expert has revealed.
The shooters accused of unleashing on innocent victims in the Bondi terror attack had no escape plan and would have kept firing until they were shot dead on the now infamous footbridge, according to a counter terrorism expert.
Former NSW police counter terrorism detective Peter Moroney also accused ASIO of dropping the ball and allowing such a deadly attack to take place on Australian soil.
Mr Moroney said Naveed Akram, 24, and his father Sajid Akram, 50, made “no attempt to cover up their identity” as they fired on people gathered for a Jewish celebration.
“So what that tells you from the outset is, I’m here. Yep. I’m here to cause as much death and mayhem as I possibly can, and the only way it’s going to stop is when you shoot me,” Mr Moroney said during an exclusive interview with ex cop Gary Jubelin.
“Because they haven’t covered their identity, there was no plan to escape. They were going to do and go until they died.”
Mr Moroney said the fact there were 16 people dead as the result of a terrorist incident showed “in the most simplest terms . law enforcement and ASIO have dropped the ball.”
He described NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon and ASIO chief Mick Burgess as “exceptionally smart” men and so they know “those questions are going to come”.
People could expect that over the next 12 months the lives and connections of the two alleged killers will be “unpacked”.
It comes amid revelations that Naveed Akram landed on the radar of counter-terrorism authorities in 2019 after preaching with a group linked to a religious centre once tied to an Islamic State cell.
Mr Moroney also warned that the allowance of Hamas flags at earlier protests across Sydney was a clear warning of trouble simmering.
Just months before the Bondi terror attack, protesters waved jihadist flags on Sydney’s Harbour Bridge.
The black flag, made infamous by al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, was also reportedly found in the car of the Akrams.
About 90,000 people descended on the Harbour Bridge in the “March for Humanity” rally organised by the Palestine Action Group on August 4.
Though it was largely well-behaved, it featured unsettling symbols, including jihadist flags and a portrait of Iranian dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei holding a rifle, while protesters chanted “Death, death to the IDF” and “death, death to Netanyahu”.
The jihadist flag, which features a white text of the Shahada (Islamic declaration of faith) on a black standard, was popularised by al-Qaeda in the 1990s.
It’s the same flag placed in a window during the Sydney Lindt Café siege in 2014. ISIS uses its own variant of the flag with a circular “seal” motif.
Although the Shahada itself is not extremist, militant groups have appropriated it on the jihadist flag.
Demonstrators march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a pro-Palestinian rally against Israel's actions and the ongoing food shortages in the Gaza Strip in August.
The Palestine Action Group vigorously denied that there had been signs of terror at the Harbour Bridge march.
Mr Moroney said “ Let’s look at it the other side”.
“Let’s look at the protests that have been run. Let’s look at the permitted Hamas flags, which is a terrorist organisation that had been permitted to fly.
“If we’re going to do this properly and in the most polite terms as I can put it, you’ll be in Australia. We have our culture, we have our laws, we have our rules.
“If you and I went overseas to any particular country, the first thing we do is we abide by their laws, their rules, their customs.
“Now they have abided by our rules in the sense that they protested and they protested lawfully. But the vast number of mixed messages that it’s being sent out is here.”
“We’ve got supporters of Hamas flying a flag. They celebrate a year to the date of the attacks in Israel.
“How on earth does that even balance itself? It doesn’t.”
