After a terrorist event, media attention and public debate on counter terrorism methods spike.

In the wider world of terrorist events, this group was obviously not very well trained.

One only has to look at how the media has handled terrorist events in recent times to understand the 'fear' an individual might feel.

The most recent terrorist events are fresh in our memory.

It is that we could have a catastrophic terrorist event.

To assist in state efforts to ensure public health preparedness for a terrorist event.

But I've got to tell you, in my thinking, it was a terrorist event.

"We want to make sure that the first focus is on preventing catastrophic terrorist events," he said.

"Intelligence will never give you 100 percent predictive capability on terrorist events."

"We have no mathematical tools to evaluate the probability of a terrorist event."