Posted on 01/09/2015 7:35:48 PM PST by canuck_conservative
France's prime minister on Friday acknowledged "failings" in intelligence that led to a three-day spree of horror and at least 20 people dead, as criticism mounted that the attacks might have been avoided if officials had been more alert to the deadly peril posed by suspects already on their radar.
Even as authorities were still investigating the events during three days of violence, a debate brewed over who should be held accountable in the apparent lapses by law enforcement and national security officials.
Some security experts, however, noted the huge difficulties faced by authorities in preventing attacks when potential terrorists and their sympathizers number in the thousands on official watch lists....
The French government appeared to be steeling itself for recriminations. "There was a failing, of course," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on BFM television. "That's why we have to analyze what happened."
Criticism has focused on the failure to more closely follow the two brothers who carried out Wednesday's attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper. One had been convicted on terrorism charges and the other was believed to have linked up with al-Qaida forces while in Yemen. Both were on the U.S. no-fly list, according to a senior U.S. official, because of their links to terrorist movements.
Michel Thooris, secretary-general of the France Police labor union, called the French attack a "breakdown" in security. Somewhere along the line the suspects fell through the cracks, he said....
In the case of Cherif and Said Kouachi, the chief suspects in the slaughter of 12 people at the satirical newspaper in Paris, efforts to track the brothers were weakened by legal considerations. Said had no criminal record, and the latest legal case against Cherif had ultimately been thrown out...
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Wasn't that why all our countries passed terrorist-association laws? So once we knew someone was a member of a proven terrorist group, we could throw their asses in jail?
Enter the bleeding-heart lawyers ...
The failing is the concept of political correctness and multiculturalism. The jihadists have decided the west must die so let’s volunteer our left wingers to go first.
It says thousands of potential terrorists, but I imagine it’s more like tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. Every Muslim is a potential terrorist. The only truly practical solution is to export all of them.
According to Wikipedia, in 2010 there were 5 to 6 million people in France who came from Muslim countries, and 2 million of those said they are practicing believers. But how many of the others are lying?
You can’t very well keep an eye on a couple of million people.
Well, 73 years ago a trio or more of foreign based TERROR groups made war on France, Britain, USA, and other countries. US Govt in April, 1942 and even sooner after Pearl harbor, either arrested similar people in the US or put them in internment camps or house arrest because they couldn`t watch them all, including my grandmother under house arrest for 4 years. But it evidently worked coz there was not ONE INSTANCE of a magazine office massacre for saying things about Mussolini, HITLER OR THE Emperor.
Coz THEY Couldn’t TRUST THEM. BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY, EVEN THO SORRY CAME 40 YEARS LATER.
Fox news:
“Yemen terror group claims it directed Paris massacre after cops kill gunmen; US issues worldwide travel warning”
Now deja vu we`re back in April 1942 whether we like it or not and WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
well duhhhhh.....
The French police are not equipped for the task of fighting terrorists and the enemies of the democratic order.
France needs a paramilitary force like the Russian Internal Troops to deal decisively with threats from jihadists. And it needs to loosen its gun control laws.
Without reform, the slaughter will continue on French soil.
Well said.
Some Algerians have been in France for quite a long time, and they may be OK, but how can you be sure? Certainly Marseilles is a dangerous mess.
The best thing would be to shovel out the late comers first, and those from distant countries where France was not much involved, if at all.
FDR did the Japanese internment quietly and without much fuss, and while it couldn’t have been very pleasant I think it was a lot better than the way Western internees were treated by Japan.
1941 Dec. -The immigrant Italians were [some] put under house arrest- All shortwave radios and Italian-American newspapers were confiscated. My grandmother, a naturalized U.S. citizen at the time and leader of the Italian Association, was put under house arrest, but my grandfather, who was not a citizen and illiterate, was not. He hid his pistol in the basement. They smuggled Italian newspapers from Brooklyn anyway. My grandmother always laughed about it that she was such a big shot that the US Govt kept her in prison. After the war, she was more popular than ever in politics.
Odd. My grandmother and my mother were Italian, and nobody bothered them. Maybe because my mother’s brother was an officer in the Army, fought in the Pacific, and was killed in the Battle of Hurtgen Forest. We also had some Italian Aunts and Uncles who were left alone, at least as far as I ever heard.
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