Threat of terror/ Revising our expectations
The recent events in Paris have once
again cast doubts on the ability of French intelligence to provide national
security.
Following the attacks, French Prime
Minister Manuel Valls did not hesitate to admit to a lapse in security. The two Kouachi brothers,
responsible for killing 12 people, were well known to French intelligence
agents and for a time closely tracked. Yet they managed to slip through.
This is particularly troubling since the
French domestic intelligence services (DGSI) were reformed in 2008 and again in 2014 following the
attacks carried by Mohamed Merah, a French citizen who gunned down several
French soldiers and Jewish schoolchildren in three separate incidents.
The apparent recurrence of intelligence
failures in France and elsewhere has long been debated by
security experts, and ultimately begs the question: what can be expected from
intelligence services?
No comments:
Post a Comment