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France’s Fifth Column: Terrorist Infiltration of the Paris Police Force
After years of Islamist terror attacks from Paris to the Riviera that have left hundreds dead, you might think that the French are inured to the fact that they are the jihadists’ favorite target in the Western world. But now they have been shocked into the realization that the situation is even worse than they thought. Last week’s massacre at the monumental Paris Police Prefecture on the Île de la Cité near Notre-Dame cathedral occurred despite repeated government assurances that all possible measures had been taken to prevent further random slaughter. If one of France’s most secure buildings could be infiltrated by a terrorist, commentators are saying this week, no one is safe anywhere.
“This is a major turning point in Islamist terrorism,” says Gilles Kepel, a specialist in Middle East and jihadist studies. “It’s hard to believe that the police [force], which we rely on to protect us and is supposed to be our last rampart against terrorism, can itself be the victim of terrorism, with throats slit in the holy of holies of the Police Prefecture.”
The attack was also a powerful symbol of France’s ingrained, systemic vulnerability to the jihadists. The two countries’ law enforcement systems are too different for an exact analogy, but it’s a bit as if an FBI special agent at the Bureau’s Joint Terrorism Task Force or a CIA operative in the Counterterrorism Center suddenly ran amok. The implications for French — and Western — security are broad and acutely troubling.
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Richard adds this important observation:
In Nam the government had to move the families of the policemen into fortified barracks to keep Charlie from murdering them. The infamous picture of the South Vietnamese General blowing a prisoners brains out helped turn people against the war but the full story is rarely told. The General was the Chief of Police for Saigon, the prisoner was the head of a unit of men that was (during the Tet offensive) going to the homes of all of the police and murdering their families.
This puts a very different slant on the photo.
In Nam the government had to move the families of the policemen into fortified barracks to keep Charlie from murdering them. The infamous picture of the South Vietnamese General blowing a prisoners brains out helped turn people against the war but the full story is rarely told. The General was the Chief of Police for Saigon, the prisoner was the head of a unit of men that was (during the Tet offensive) going to the homes of all of the police and murdering their families.
This puts a very different slant on the photo.