Breaking: French and German Police Knew Paris Attack Was Coming a Month Prior
As this is being written, terrorists have struck Paris and are
reported to be holding 100 hostages in a night club, two suicide bombers
have detonated outside a soccer stadium, and multiple shootings are
taking place as terrorists hit soft targets before moving on in a
Mumbai-style assault, leaving at least 40 dead. SOFREP sources reported
to us weeks ago that the French National Police were meeting with the
German BKA federal police and BND federal intelligence service to
discuss an imminent pre-planned terrorist attack in Paris.
Industrial targets were already being probed by suspected terrorists in France, and a bomb which failed to detonate was found in one facility. The explosives employed were those stolen in a little-publicized theft from a French military armory months prior. The French and German federal police and intelligence services strongly believed at that time that terrorists were casing soft targets inside Paris and that it was, “A matter of when, not if.” The only point of contention within the French security services was whether or not the target would be soft (civilian) or hard (military, government, industrial) in nature.
(Featured image courtesy of AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
Industrial targets were already being probed by suspected terrorists in France, and a bomb which failed to detonate was found in one facility. The explosives employed were those stolen in a little-publicized theft from a French military armory months prior. The French and German federal police and intelligence services strongly believed at that time that terrorists were casing soft targets inside Paris and that it was, “A matter of when, not if.” The only point of contention within the French security services was whether or not the target would be soft (civilian) or hard (military, government, industrial) in nature.
(Featured image courtesy of AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Jack Murphy
is an eight year Army Special Operations veteran who served as a Sniper
and Team Leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a Senior Weapons
Sergeant on a Military Free Fall team in 5th Special Forces Group.
Having left the military in 2010, he graduated from Columbia with a BA
in political science. Murphy is the author of Reflexive Fire, Target
Deck, Direct Action, and numerous non-fiction articles about Weapons,
Tactics, Special Operations, Terrorism, and Counter-Terrorism. He has
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