Western governments not after 'stopping' terrorism, pundit says
Press TV has interviewed Joe Quinn, editor and researcher with sott.net, from Paris, and Michael Lane, the president of the American Institute for Foreign Policy, from Washington, to discuss the Western support for militants operating against the Syrian government.
Quinn says the French intelligence officials “should have been keeping tabs on people who they knew to be a threat.”
The so-called mastermind of the November 13 Paris attacks was known to the French intelligence, Quinn said. “They knew he was in Syria, but somehow they did not know that he, just recently, apparently came back to France to carry out these attacks. A lot of this is extremely unbelievable to me.”
Since the 9/11 attacks in the United States, the so-called masterminds of terrorist attacks have been “well-known to intelligence agencies,” Quinn said, “but for some strange reason they were unable to do anything about it.”
The “normal response” from Western governments and intelligence agencies to terrorist attacks of the sort carried out in Paris is to “impose … draconian measures on the entire population of the country.”
That, the commentator argues, brings about suspicion that “it is not really about stopping terror attacks, necessarily, but about imposing a more draconian, kind of police-state … atmosphere … on the country.”
Lane, for his part, said the extension of the national state of emergency “gives the French government three months to conduct rather intrusive investigations.”
He also warns when an intelligence failure happens, it may be possible for the French people to witness additional security failures in the future.
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