New Zealand Terror Training

The big news today was about the anti-terror raids that police launched yesterday at multiple locations throughout New Zealand including Wellington. 17 people were arrested and an arsenal of weapons including semi automatic weapons, napalm and Molotov cocktails was seized. The main focus of the operation was on what police allege were terror training camps in a remote section of the North Island. Police said that the arrested included environmental and Maori activists. Today supporters of those arrested claim that the terrorism charges are inflated and that the camps were being used to promote physical fitness.
This is the first time that New Zealand has invoked an anti-terrorism law that was enacted in 2002. New Zealand has not had terrorist acts committed within its soil as have Britain, Spain and the United States. To this writer it seems unusual to hear that a terrorist camp would include multiple groups with different causes. Besides the local media this story has been reported by Reuters and some of the British press including The Guardian. There’s no mention of this at all on the New York Times Asia/Pacific section of their world news web site.