A paradise of fools
Europe refuses to understand that it faces a terror war
Endless conferences and exchanges of delegations on the topic of terrorism have been arranged, they spoke about counter measures, about security measures – but in fact they did practically nothing there. They declared war, but behaved as if there wasn't really an enemy.
A paradise of fools, out of which grew the terror attack in London.
This was not a surprise. It was a bitter failure. An intelligence failure, a security failure, and mainly a failure of consciousness. And if this happened to British intelligence, which is considered one of the best, it is frightening to imagine what is the condition of the rest of the European intelligence services in the area of counter-terrorism.
If the al-Qaeda organization and its branches decide to carry out a terror offensive in the European countries – it is doubtful if the European security apparatuses will be able to hold it back.
Indeed, Europe is breached today to fundamentalist Islamic terrorism.
Making excuses
The British are still not releasing information about the circumstances of the attack. But a rough estimate: behind an attack of this size stand, in direct relation, at least 20 – 30 people: those involved in the operation, planners, aides, suppliers of the bombs and more.
One must assume that this group has been in England not just one or two days, deployed, organized and collecting intelligence under the nose of the British security services.
The magnitude of the failure grew even more because it is a matter of a series of attacks committed simultaneously and not a lone attack by a novice suicide, who can slip through intelligence efforts. Incidentally, the attackers at Mike's Place in Tel Aviv are the spoiled fruit of British intelligence: two British citizens joined the world jihad under its nose.
It is always possible to make excuses and blame the failure on the fact that London is a large metropolis, that England is an open society, including millions of Muslims who live in areas where there is no obligation to know the English language.
Indeed, precisely because of these limitations it is hard to understand how come the intelligence services in England and Ireland still treat with silk gloves problematic communities where Islamic fundamentalism finds a hiding place.
The result of this approach is that there is insufficient coverage of the target communities. So that the chance that intelligence will come upon terrorist networks within these communities is not high.
And incidentally, only this week the European Union decided, secretly, to deport illegal immigrants. They mean mainly Muslim immigrants, but don't dare to say so aloud. Meanwhile, only recently in England they decided to deal with inciting preachers in the mosques.
If there is no good intelligence, one needs to invest at least in a security system. And if they don't invest in an effective security system because of its high monetary cost, then it is at least possible to invest in a security system that creates a deterrent effect against potential terrorists.
But on the matter of security in general – and security of public transportation in particular – Europe – blah!
Europe doesn’t understand that it’s in war
In March last year, the British subway arranged an international conference in London on the subject of securing the subway against terrorist attacks. Two days after the opening of the conference the mass attack occurred in the Spanish railway.
England aided the Spanish in investigating the incident. A year and a half later, terrorists attack the British Underground.
It does not seem that any conclusion arrived at in that conference or derived after the attack in Spain was implemented in England. The British, as the rest of Europe, do not think in terms of preventing an attack. In other words, security.
They are investing the money in post-attack resources: in rehabilitation, first aid services, in researching chemical and biological materials. In this they are fantastic.
Investing in security takes place in countries where terrorism, from their perspective, is a state of war. The Europeans still speak about terrorism as they do about criminal activity.
Europe does not understand – and does not want to understand – that it is in a war. And therefore this will happen again tomorrow: in England, in Italy, in Holland, in all the countries of Europe that have contributed to the struggles in Afghanistan and Iraq.
