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发表于 2015-9-13 04:26:40
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Tom Sir,
First post was my original thought. I guess it was not as deep dive as you thought.
Anyway, here is more other people thought. This case C of M16 (head of M16, chief) on CNN.
(CNN)Terror attacks will happen; some just will. No matter how hard authorities fight to intercept plots, they can't stop them all -- and ISIS has made their jobs even tougher, says Sir John Sawers.
In James Bond movies, the head of the MI6 is called "M." In reality, that person is code-named "C" for Chief of Secret Intelligence Service. Sawers was "C" until he stepped down last year.
He did his best to keep Britain terror-free, and mostly, he was successful, he said on CNN's Global Public Square. But the dangers have grown since he left his post. "I think it's pretty chaotic and dangerous at the moment," Sawers said.
Olympian task
Sawers' MI6 worked to keep the 2012 London Olympics terror-free.
Sawers' MI6 worked to keep the 2012 London Olympics terror-free.
On Sawers' watch, London hosted the Olympic Games in 2012, and security was already a huge job then, but it was manageable. That may no longer be the case.
"We were pretty confident that the London Olympics would be terrorism-free. And thanks to a lot of hard work, it was," Sawers said. "I don't think you could be quite so confident now if the London Olympics were in 2016, for example."
Since ISIS has come along, terrorists have changed their game. "They're not trying to fly airliners into buildings. They're doing simpler things," he said.
They're picking up Kalashnikovs, pistols or knives and walking into places like the offices of French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, where two gunman killed 12 people in January.
Or into a market, or onto a crowded passenger train, like the man tackled last month on the Amsterdam-to-Paris line as he brandished a rifle, a pistol and a box cutter.
"That's much harder to stop and obstruct as an intelligence service," Sawers said.
ISIS recruiting is a worry, not migrants
On GPS: Britain's former top spy on global security
On GPS: Britain's former top spy on global security 01:35
Though many terrorists in the West are disaffected younger people, often from immigrant families, Sawers doesn't see significant dangers from the current mass migration from Syria, Iraq and other war-torn countries.
"I think the great bulk of these refugees are people genuinely fleeing conflict, fleeing for their lives and seeking a better life for themselves and their families," he said.
What does worry him is the fact that European citizens are signing up with ISIS.
"They can come back radicalized and keen to carry out terrorist attacks in their home countries," he said.
To fight the new dangers, intelligence services need to gain the trust of Muslim leaders in their home countries and sneak secret agents into overseas terror organizations, Sawers said.
In spite of the dangers, he said, he believes Western intelligence has done a good job at thwarting attacks so far. It's just that 100% success is unrealistic. |
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发表于 2015-9-8 05:34:06
