LETTER TO SCMP:
Quote from below article:
Shire Ali, like the three men arrested Tuesday, had his passport cancelled to keep him from joining ISIS in the Mideast, and [Victorian Police Commissioner Graham] Ashton said this may have led to their actions at home [Melbourne].
An Australian federal counterterrorism expert, Ian McCarthy, added that if it's difficult for would-be terrorists to get to a conflict zone with ISIS, "often the view will be to change tack and commit an act in the country in which they live."
This begs the obvious question: why cancel their passports to prevent them leaving the country? Why not wait until they have gone overseas to join ISIS and then cancel their passport to prevent them returning ?
I hope this is the policy of our own government here in Hong Kong.
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