Several Paris attackers were on U.S. watchlists: officials

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least four of the Paris attackers were listed in a central counter-terrorism database maintained by the U.S. intelligence community, five U.S. officials said on Thursday.

At least one and possibly more of the attackers was also on a more selective U.S. "no fly list", three of the officials said, though they would not provide a specific number.

In coordinated attacks in Paris last Friday, 129 people were killed and more than 300 were wounded. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the worst violence in France since World War Two.

The U.S. officials said four of the attackers who have been publicly named by France were listed before the attacks in TIDE, a central, highly classified database of raw information maintained by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), a division of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. They did not name those who were listed in TIDE.

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[JoeyT]

1. I'd be far more surprised if at least some of them weren't.

Put everyone on a watch list and it's not surprising when someone that's on it does something.

[Darb]

2. What are you implying?

Do you have any helpful suggestions?

I seem to be trending toward doing more than putting them on a list.

[JoeyT]

3. I'm implying that when everyone is on a list,

someone on the list having done something is meaningless as far as justifying the list goes.

Well, not so much "implying" as saying it outright.

[Darb]

4. Is everyone on that list? I think that

is what you are implying. And I say "implying" because not everyone is on that list, unless you have seen some giant 333,000,000 name list somewhere. So therefore, what I was wondering is if you had anything constructive to add, or are you just making things more difficult for law enforcement by spreading innuendo about everyone being on a list?

[JoeyT]

5. I dunno. No one is allowed to see the lists.

And that's why all the secret "We totally knew he was a bad guy!" nonsense is ridiculous.

It's like saying "The NSA thought he was a person of interest.". Well no shit. They spy on everybody.

[onecaliberal]

6. Being on the list would have stopped them from coming to OUR country.