Two suspected of links to Paris attacks arrested in Austria refugee center

[OneCrazyDiamond]

Source: Reuters

Two people have been arrested at a refugee center in the Austrian city of Salzburg on suspicion of being connected to last month's Paris attacks, the Salzburg prosecutors' office said on Wednesday.

The two are men who are thought to have provided help to members of the group that carried out the attacks on Nov. 13 in which 130 people were killed, two Austrian newspapers reported.

"Two people who arrived from the Middle East were arrested at the weekend in accommodation for refugees on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization," Robert Holzleitner, a spokesman for the Salzburg prosecutor's office, said.

"As part of the preliminary investigation, evidence suggesting a connection with the Paris attacks is being verified," he added, declining to comment on the specifics of the newspaper reports.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-shooting-austria-idUSKBN0TZ1QP20151216

[underpants]

1. So the vetting process works

You won't hear anyone mention that on the TV.

[MariaThinks]

3. It did in this case

I have to wonder if there are some that we haven't discovered.

[840high]

5. I'm sure there are.

[Igel]

6. Sort of.

Foreign intelligence agencies IDed them.

And they were found in Austria, in refugee accommodations. "Vetting" should be done *before* they're admitted and in residence, not as the result of a foreign government's sending a note saying, in effect, "These two you've already admitted are bad guys."

Sort of like hiring somebody as a bank teller then getting an anonymous report from somebody that lets you know that the person's suspected of being a bank robber. "You're fired," is the response, but that's hardly equivalent to "Look at how thorough our background check is."

Mostly because in depth background checks on 100k people whose records are likely to not be accessible in the first place and whose accessible records are likely to be in different languages and orthographies.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Canada bravely and compassionately welcoming 10000 Syrian war refugees by Xmas.....

while mighty America trembles in fear and is mired in racist propaganda war media....one of these nations is very sick....

[OneCrazyDiamond]

4. We do give a lot more money then Canada. n/t