U.S.
Ambassador to France Jane Hartley said she was not alerted to any
intelligence that a terrorist plot might be in the works before Islamic
State terrorists launched brutal attacks in Paris on Friday night,
killing 129 people, including one American.
Hartley
also confirmed in an interview with Yahoo News that a team of FBI
agents has arrived in Paris to assist with the unfolding investigation
that led this morning to a raid by French police in which two suspected
terrorists were killed and seven arrested.
“We
did not know about an active plot,” said Hartley, describing how she
had been out to dinner with her husband at a Paris restaurant Friday
evening when the attacks were launched. “We here did not know of an
imminent threat.”
Hartley’s
comments came two days after CIA director John Brennan said that U.S.
intelligence had “strategic warning” that Islamic State terrorists might
be plotting attacks in Europe prior to Friday’s attacks.
Iraqi
intelligence officials also said this week that the day before the
attacks they sent warnings to European partners, including the French,
that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had ordered attacks
“through bombings or assassinations or hostage taking in the coming
days.”
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