Asio boss defends undercover police operation targeting boy with autism
by Daniel Hurst and Nino Bucci from World news | The Guardian on (#6K258)
Mike Burgess says security agencies don't radicalise people' and stands by actions of police in case of 13-year-old with Islamic State fixation'
The Asio chief has insisted security agencies don't radicalise people" but admitted dealing with minors is incredibly difficult" after court findings criticising an undercover operation targeting a 13-year-old child with autism.
Guardian Australia revealed last month that the boy, known by the pseudonym Thomas Carrick, was granted a permanent stay on terror-related charges last October, after a magistrate found police fed his fixation" with Islamic State during the operation and doomed" his efforts at rehabilitation.
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