New York Times: Monitoring of Terrorism Threats Has Risen, Official Says
WASHINGTON — A senior European counterterrorism official said on Thursday that spy services in several countries had increased their monitoring and surveillance, and governments had put heightened security measures in place, even before recent arrests in Belgium and Turkey.
Hours after the official spoke, the police in the southern German city of Munich evacuated two train stations and warned residents to avoid large groups of people, citing “concrete hints” of a possible terrorist attack amid New Year’s celebrations.
Joachim Herrmann, interior minister for the state of Bavaria, of which Munich is the capital, told reporters early Friday that the German authorities had been tipped by a foreign intelligence service that the Islamic State was linked to a plot to carry out attacks in Munich.
Hubertus Andrä, head of the Munich police, said officials suspected that several suicide bombers had planned to carry out the attacks.
Update: Iraqi national tipped off Munich officials: German media (DW)
WNU editor: Expect this to be the new normal (i.e. more monitoring and surveillance by intelligence agencies).
4 comments:
More monitoring, unless you are a burka babe flying through security, while everyone else gets felt up.
Gosh, you mean the $6 billion we pay for "intelligence" annually will actually produce something besides snooping on our emails and on our google searches?
I love that photo, with that imposing title which has always impressed me-- HAUPTBAHNHOF. You just know you've arrived somewhere important, with a name like that.
I guess you have to be German Don. :)
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