Germany ignored anti-terror tips, had intelligence agencies infiltrated by ISIS in 2016
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by William Craddick
Jan 16, 2017 5:14 PM
A troubling series of revelations about German failures to prevent Islamic State operations within the country raise questions about their ability and willingness to effectively combat terror. The string of intelligence fiascos in 2016 comes as documents from Wikileaks show that Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees had a policy of admitting migrants who were a known terror risk with the intention of recruiting them as informants over a decade and a half ago.
I. Germany failed to heed multiple warnings about Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri
In the aftermath of the recent December 2016 Berlin truck attack, reports have emerged that German intelligence received prior warnings about the likelihood that an incident was due to occur but failed to take action. On December 22nd, 2016, Moroccan World News revealed that Morocco had warned German intelligence officials in September 2016 that Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri had jihadist tendencies and was known to have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State. On October 11th, they gave German intelligence a second tip that Amri had been residing in Germany illegally for 14 months and that he was regularly meeting with two known members of ISIS who were described as "dangerous." German officials do no appear to have acted on either tip from their Moroccan counterparts.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-16/germany-ignored-anti-terror-tips-had-intelligence-agencies-infiltrated-isis-2016
