Tying this to the recent refugee crisis is to miss what's been going on for years - inter-European bickering about information sharing and data collection.
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A major Islamist terror attack in Europe is almost inevitable as European members of Islamic State (Isis) return from Syria and Iraq, according to senior EU officials familiar with the diplomatic, intelligence, and security planning taking place to try to counter the threat.
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That's from over a year ago.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...itable-isis-eu
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The EU has been trying to come up with a counter-terrorism strategy for the past 18 months. The current emergency is jolting the process, but officials are intensely pessimistic that the results will be too little, too late.
Various schemes are under discussion, most notably an EU-wide Passenger Names Record (PNR) for all air travel within the EU supplying up to 15 parameters that are mixed in a computer algorithm to help identify suspects.
The scheme is opposed in the European parliament on civil liberties grounds as it would monitor millions of ordinary travellers. The Germans, sticklers for data protection, are also lukewarm on the idea but are keener on reintroducing tighter border controls within the passport-free Schengen zone.
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That brings the concern and effort back to March 2013.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
If the story about that Syrian passport gets further confirmed, it means that those 130 people got killed and those hundreds got wounded in exchange for letting happen uncontrolled border crossing and unregulated mass migration. Nice trade. Headless sentimentality and wishful dreaming has quite a bit to do with it.
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So no, not really. Certainly imposing heavy border checks and severely curtailing freedom of movement
might have caught this in progress, but to frame it as you have as an even trade, one for the other, is false.
IS would have had no trouble getting fighters in place if there was no refugee crisis.