Metadata collection is no substitute for human intelligence and good police work. But even with the information that Farook was in contact with terrorist suspects, the FBI did nothing. This time people died. Heads should roll.
The goal of terrorism is to terrorize us. What could possibly be a more effective means of that than getting us to live in fear not of some far-away foreign threat, but of our own neighbors? It's a numbers game, with hooks reaching down into one of the darkest and ugliest aspects of our history: Our racial and ethnic stereotypes and prejudices.
The sordid history of the past 14 years of the United States imprisoning 779 persons from 48 countries on a U.S. military base in Cuba as a part of its global war "on terror" reflects the mentality of those who govern the United States -- global intervention for political or economic reasons, invasion, occupation other countries and leaving its military bases in those countries for decades.
Do you believe that this kid is the mastermind of the Paris attack?
Clearly, governments have no respect for the intelligence of their serfs.
https://www.rt.com/news/322704-paris-attack-mastermind-killed/
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http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/paris-tragedy-its-necessary-know-whos-pulling-strings/ri11201
In Paris Tragedy, It’s Necessary to Know Who’s Pulling the Strings
Putin demands a real investigation, but the Western establishment has already decided how to use the massacre
(German Economic News)
Originally appeared in German at German Economic News. Translated by David Norris