ASIO raids on Jemaah Islamiyah suspects in Sydney and Perth
Australia listed Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) as a terrorist organisation under the Criminal Code with effect from 27 October 2002, 15 days after the Bali bombings. The BBC reported that the listing allowed the government "to use tough anti-terror legislation against suspected members". It also reported that Australia believed JI was involved in the Bali attack, in which "more than 180 people were killed, including about 90 Australians".
On the evening of Sunday 27 October 2002, armed officers searched the Sydney flat of Jaya Fadly Basri. The Sydney Morning Herald reported this happened "just hours after Jemaah Islamiyah's listing". Officers spent two hours going through computer records and documents. His lawyer, Stephen Hopper, told the BBC: "He would not have anything to do with a terrorist organisation and finds violence an abhorrent concept." Basri told the SMH he had attended "two or three" public lectures by Abu Bakar Bashir, the latest in 1997.
Early on Wednesday 30 October 2002, armed police raided the home of an Indonesian Muslim family in Thornlie, Perth. A neighbour told the ABC: "There were six or eight uniformed police officers with black helmets, black balaclavas, black flak jackets... like it was from a movie scene". The AFP referred all inquiries to Attorney-General Daryl Williams. The BBC said no arrests were reported in either raid.
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