THE VITAL CLUES MISSED IN EUROPE BEFORE THE MASSACRE
A series of vital clues appear to have been missed that could have averted the Paris atrocities.
Iraqi intelligence warned US-led coalition countries of an imminent assault the day before the Paris attacks, it has emerged.
At
least one of the terrorists was a Parisian who had been on a terror
watch list for five years, but was not being monitored closely enough to
be stopped before he took part in the murderous attack.
Greek
authorities believe that two of the gunmen sneaked into Europe posing
as a refugee from Syria – heightening fears that not enough security
checks are being carried out on migrants.
In
May this year, The Mail on Sunday revealed the concerns of security
analysts that Islamic State extremists were being smuggled into Europe
among refugees crossing the Mediterranean.
More
than a week ago, a heavily-armed suspect was stopped in Germany on his
way to Paris. Hidden in his car, police found a terrifying arsenal,
including seven Kalashnikov assault rifles and seven hand grenades. The
destination programmed into his satnav system was Paris but officers
failed to alert anti-terror police. The 51-year-old driver, a Muslim
from Montenegro, was arrested and held in custody but has refused to
talk.
In
August, French intelligence detained a 30-year-old man on his way back
from Syria who said militants were planning attacks on French concert
halls.
Prosecutors
also said the terrorists used an improved explosive known as TATP, or
triacetone triperoxide, which also was used in the 2005 bombings in
London and were likely to be homemade with ingredients usually traced by
the secret services.
French
intelligence and security services had been reorganised in the wake of
the Charlie Hebdo massacres, which left 16 dead in January. A former
senior intelligence officer very familiar with France said he and a lot
of French intelligence officials think that after two internal services —
the Central Directorate of General Intelligence (RG) and the
Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST) — were merged, it created a
larger, but far weaker, General Directorate for Internal Security.
Alain
Charret, an expert on France's surveillance system, said it was hard
for the military to be everywhere and for intelligence to predict
everything, 'but the reason why it is usually difficult to track people
is because one or two people on their own are involved — here, it seems
like it was a big group of organized people, so it should have been
tracked more easily.'
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