It was established in 1988 by the government of Sitiveni Rabuka, which had come to power in a military coup in 1987. Describing it ten years later, Rabuka said: "We had to set up an intelligence unit that would incorporate both criminal and military intelligence, and in fact they recruited from both the police and the army for the Fiji Intelligence Services". The FIS was abolished in 1999 by Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry's government, and due to be revived in 2008 by the government of Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, which had seized power in the 2006 military coup. The Bainimarama government announced that the FIS was being reestablished so as to "ensure a safe and secured Fiji from increasing terrorism threats", citing "the events of &lt;a href="9/11"&gt;9/11&lt;/a&gt; in 2001 in the United States and recently in Bali", and more generally "rising terrorism worldwide".