"All of us have great concern about the apparent resurgence in the al-Qaeda bombings," Charles Prouty of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation said during the gathering in the Gold Coast resort area.
"No matter how careful you are, no matter how many precautions you take or how hard you work at it, there is always a chance someone is going to get through," said Prouty.
The five-day meeting which opened yesterday followed a week of major bombings in Saudi Arabia and Morocco that killed dozens of people and were blamed on Osama bin Laden's radical Islamic group al-Qaeda.
The attacks prompted new terrorism alerts focussing on Southeast Asia and East Africa.
"This is a very dangerous group and they do have tentacles throughout the world," Prouty said of al-Qaeda.
The US law enforcement official said sharing investigative strategy and techniques was one the aims of the high-level Gold Coast meeting.
Tomorrow Australian police officials will brief participants on the progress of their investigation into the October 2002 car bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali which killed 202 people, 88 of them Australian.
Australian Police Commissioner Mick Keelty told the conference today that there had been several new arrests since Easter in the Bali case that had succeeded in disrupting activities of the al-Qaeda-linked group Jemaah Islamiyah.
"We haven't been reporting on its results because of the operational sensitivity of what they are doing, but we will not leave any stone unturned in working with the Indonesians and whatever agencies we need to try and capture those responsible for the Bali bombings," he said.
"There's been a number of arrests in the period between Easter and now that have been very effective in terms of catching up with some of the more current intelligence about the location of some of these people". – Sapa.
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