Paris (AFP) - Just a week into the year, France has already been rattled by an attempted attack on a police station, but counter-terrorism officials have far graver fears for Europe in 2016.
November's attacks in Paris, in which 130 people were killed by Islamic State group jihadists, showed the trauma that could be caused by a group of men with Kalashnikov rifles, but experts fear it could be just the start.
"Unfortunately, I think 2015 was nothing," a counter-terrorism official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"We are moving towards a European 9/11: simultaneous attacks on the same day in several countries, several places. A very coordinated thing. We know the terrorists are working on this," he added.
WNU Editor: These concerns of a European 9/11 have been around for a long time (the above Time cover is from 2004). But the environment is different now. Europe's open borders has permitted millions to come in, and while the mass majority are people who are escaping war and poverty .... as we have learned in 2015 from Paris and in places like Cologne on New Years Eve .... many unfortunately are not.
For my country (Sweden) last years invasion of young muslim men was traumatic enough.
ReplyDeleteI read yesterday that in the agegroup 16-17 there are now an extreme male surplus with a quota of 125 to 100. In China a famous example it is only 117 to 100.