The Daily Mail has the details of what the French government is admitting was a “failure of intelligence” as Iraqi spies warned the West of the possibility of a suicide bomb threat.
Here’s three ways in which they failed to detect the terror plot:
Meanwhile, vital clues were missed that could have averted the Paris atrocities, it was feared last night as it was revealed that:
- A heavily armed suspect was stopped on his way to the French capital more than a week ago but German police who uncovered an arsenal of weapons in his car did not tell anti-terror chiefs.
- 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.
As details of the killers’ identities began to emerge yesterday, Corinne Narassiguin, spokeswoman for France’s ruling Socialist Party, admitted: ‘Obviously there was a failure of intelligence.’
Amazingly, Turkish authorities heeded the warnings and actually thwarted a terror attack plotted for Istanbul.
More:
Iraqi spies warned the West of an ISIS suicide bomber threat the day before the Paris atrocities, it has been revealed, as more details of major intelligence failures begin to emerge.
The US-led coalition in Syria was apparently told by Iraqi security sources that 24 extremists were involved in the terror operation planned in the ISIS capital Raqqa and it would involve 19 attackers including five others including bombmakers and planners.
French authorities also possessed information that militants were said to be planning attacks on French concert halls from as far back as August, it has been reported.
The tip-off came from a 30-year-old man who was detained on his way back from Syria.
If 24 extremists were planning this and only 8 were killed in the attack then shouldn’t they be on high alert?
And also, if they failed utterly to filter out extremists from the Syrian refugees, then what makes us think we’ll do any better as Obama welcomes them into our shores?