Terror threat/ France
France is tracking
hundreds of people believed to belong to possible sleeper cells for terror
organizations like al-Qaida or the Islamic State group, the country's top
security official said.
In an interview with
The Associated Press, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve laid out what has
become an increasingly urgent question for European intelligence services: How
to trace the moment when someone transforms from a disgruntled criminal or a
disaffected citizen into a terrorist, and how to block those first steps toward
radicalization.
"Four hundred
targets have been identified by our intelligence services that are more or less
sleeper cells, affiliated or in relation with al-Qaida-type organizations, that
can strike like the Kouachi brothers," Cazeneuve said in an interview late
Monday.
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