<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The head of the Australian Federal Police is warning that more raids are imminent as officers move in on hate preachers and anyone associated with them.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It comes as new details emerge of the trip to the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/philippines" rel="" target="" title="Philippines"><span>Philippines</span></a><span> taken by alleged </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/bondi-beach" rel="" target="" title="Bondi Beach"><span>Bondi Beach</span></a><span> shooters Sajid and Naveed Akram in the weeks before the massacre.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Pictures show a tiny hotel room with two single beds that cost just over $20 a night and was reportedly paid for in cash by the Akrams – the base for the father and son during their 27-day trip to the Philippines, now at the centre of an investigation into Bondi's terror attack.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-shooting-updates-more-victims-released-from-hospital/0a4622cc-44b5-4dd2-aa45-c2160cd0d4e5"><strong><span>More Bondi terror attack victims released from hospitals</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The president strongly rejects the sweeping statement and the misleading characterisation of the Philippines as the ISIS training hotspot," Claire Castro from the Philippines' Presidential Communications Office said</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The father and son visited the city of Davao, reportedly for militant training, just weeks before they're alleged to have carried out an Islamic State-inspired attack targeting Jewish families at Bondi Beach.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Filipino authorities have been quick to reject claims of extremist training.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-investigations-continue-into-terrorist-father-and-son-phillipines-trip/44fb98ca-1bb0-484d-b790-5b895d7a633a" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Training cannot be acquired in just 30 days," Armed Forces of the Philippines Colonel Xerxes Trinidad said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Colonel Froncel Margareth Padilla said in a television interview, "there are no activities such as trainings or any local terrorist activities".</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The AFP continues to work with both domestic and international partners to build a more complete picture of the movements and who the alleged offenders had contact with both in Australia and offshore," AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She would not confirm if it was known whether the accused mass killers received combat instructions overseas, but she did have this warning for anyone who may have influenced them back home:</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I can also reveal the AFP has ongoing investigations into people who have been described as hate preachers," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"These individuals who spew hatred and cause fear are on my radar."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f"><em><strong><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>: Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. Available on the</span></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://apps.apple.com/au/app/9news/id1010533727"><em><strong><span>Apple App Store</span></strong></em></a><span> </span><em><strong><span>and</span></strong></em><span> </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nineNewsAlerts.nine.com&hl=en_AU&pli=1"><em><strong><span>Google Play</span></strong></em></a><em><strong><span>.</span></strong></em></div></div>
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