French intelligence officials were not aware until days after this month's deadly terror attack on Paris that the suspected mastermind of the carnage had a female cousin living just north of the capital, according to a published report.
The Wall Street Journal reports that information provided by Moroccan intelligence tied Hasna Houlahcen to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, enabling authorities to launch the raid that killed the two relatives this past Wednesday in Saint-Denis. However, that lapse and others has left France's security services with uncomfortable questions to answer as the country reels from a second deadly act of terror in 10 months.
"No need to fool ourselves,” a French government official told the paper. "What we have in front of us is a complete failure."
Abaaoud, originally thought to have ordered the attacks from Syria, is not the only suspect in the attacks which killed 130 and injured 350 others to have escaped the notice of French authorities. Samy Amimour, one of the attackers who killed 89 people at the Bataclan concert hall Nov. 13, was charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012. He had been placed under judicial supervision but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an international arrest warrant.
The Associated Press also reported that French officials quizzed him on Oct. 19, 2012, over links to a network of terror sympathizers and an abortive trip to Yemen.
French intelligence officials were not aware until days after this month's deadly terror attack on Paris that the suspected mastermind of the carnage had a female cousin living just north of the capital, according to a published report. The Wall Street Journal reports that information provided by Moroccan intelligence tied Hasna Houlahcen to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, enabling authorities to launch the raid that killed the two relatives this past Wednesday in Saint-Denis. However, that lapse and others has left France's security services with uncomfortable questions to answer as the country reels from a second deadly act of terror in 10 months."No need to fool ourselves,” a French government official told the paper. "What we have in front of us is a complete failure."Abaaoud, originally thought to have ordered the attacks from Syria, is not the only suspect in the attacks which killed 130 and injured 350 others to have escaped the notice of French authorities. Samy Amimour, one of the attackers who killed 89 people at the Bataclan concert hall Nov. 13, was charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012. He had been placed under judicial supervision but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an international arrest warrant.The Associated Press also reported that French officials quizzed him on Oct. 19, 2012, over links to a network of terror sympathizers and an abortive trip to Yemen.
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