Terror project in the works, expert says
The French government joined the growing list of countries advising citizens to be wary of the heightened risk of a terrorist attack, saying it was “very likely” Britain would be the target.
That country joined the US, Britain, Japan, Australia and Sweden in using an alert.
“The fact that so many travel warnings about Europe have been published in recent days is an ‘exceptional and unique’ situation," said Louis Caprioli, reported the Christian Science Monitor.
He is the former head of France’s domestic intelligence agency. He stressed that it points clearly to real information about a major terror plot.
Caprioli, who spent his career in counterterrorism, says that there has been a misplaced sense of calm in France – created, he says, by comments made in recent weeks by some opposition politicians who said that the terror scare was being used for political reasons by an unpopular government trying to shore up support.
“Also, except for some extra police and soldiers on the street, there was still no real sign of increased security – something that seemed to be adding to the complacency,” the report said.
“But, the truth is, something real is afoot, and as you have seen in recent days, with arrests in Italy and now, here in France, some of the pieces of the puzzle are starting to come together,” he said.
“There is a terror project in the works."
Caprioli says there’s a great deal of intelligence work going on behind the scenes. “The security services are working overtime,” he says, adding that they were coordinating their work with a whole slew of other countries’ security services.
The root of the threats, he said, seem to be narrowing down to two different sources: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) based in North Africa and young French radicals who have gone to Pakistan to train with radical jihadists.
By David Wilkening
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