European Islamic terrorist attacks

[RobertE]

I loved Monty Python.  Still do.

Here's another interesting story from the Times.  This might help Europe but then they need the will to act on it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/world/...ss&emc=rss

The United States is poring over a vast trove of new intelligence about Islamic State fighters who have flowed into Syria and Iraq and some who then returned to their home countries, information that American officials say could help fight militants on the battlefield and prevent potential plotters from slipping into Europe.
American-backed Syrian Kurdish and Arab militias have seized more than 10,000 documents and 4.5 terabytes of digital data in recent weeks while fighting insurgents in Manbij in northern Syria, near the Turkish border, a major hub for Islamic State fighters entering and leaving Syria, American officials said.
An initial American review of the material offers new clues about “foreign fighters, the networks, where they’re from,” according to Brett McGurk, President Obama’s special envoy for combating the Islamic State. Other officials said the information included the fighters’ identities, countries of origin, routes into Syria and the illicit networks that recruited and ferried them to the region. Those details are being shared with allies to help stanch the flow of militants.

The problem with all this information is that they can do absolutely nothing about the foreign fighters should they return to their own country. It is just like the police, when they have a somebody in mind where the modus operandi fits perfectly, but unless this person does something, they are powerless to act. Again, from what I have heard, it takes at least 20 people to survey 1 potential terrorist in France who is on a particular list. The number of these people around France is around 1,000 perhaps more so, imagine the manpower; 20,000 more policemen.