of the world including, of course australia. we ve heard threats from isis that it would carry out some of these actions on the street. we don t know who is responsible but looking at these images let s talk about the muslim community in paris and some of the political controversies that have taken place over the past few years. well it s certainly one of the largest populations in all of europe within the population of france anywhere from 8 to 10%. many of the muslim community there dissents of immigrants. many immigrants themselves. historically there are societyial problems french at large. they don t have the immigration success that other countries have had. it s a diverse country there isn t the same kind of assimilation and integration among the communities. that created a system in which there are lots of young disenfranchised youth. a lot have become in the past a couple of months particularly with the rise of isis recruited by ice sis and other militant
professionalism that we often don t see from the quote, unquote loan wolfes. does it lend you to not the conclusion but certainly the possible belief this is not just about three people. absolutely. this might be connected to another terrorist organization. this might have other political implications. we don t know yet and it s hard to speculate whether it s isis al qaeda groups in north africa aq in yemen. it s too early to tell. what do we know regarding the fact they didn t commit suicide. they went in to this building a mission taking out certain lives and then leaving. there was not, for example, going back to london when that soldier was massacred by those individuals. they stood in the streets recording it. wanting the world to see the disgusting and deplorable images.
if not necessarily officially claim responsibility celebrate what happened today. these are the extremist groups whether it be al qaeda, whether it be isis or other groups. what the underlying problem here is going to be or the challenge rather is going to be whether authorities can determine an operational link between these groups and what happened on the ground. i think the challenge is going to be for the authorities over the course next several hours and days is try to piece together who the individuals are. given the fact these attackers are still at large, i think that s going to be very difficult for them. they re following, obviously, the online chatters. there s a lot of noise on the online forum who is claiming responsibility. i would approach it with a tremendous amount of caution. i don t necessarily think it s going to have a lot of legs to it. and just thinking back to the soldier in london who was, you know barbarically murdered in the streets there. we ve seen images
i think part of the problem is the only way you can stop the folks is trying to detect them ahead of time. there s two ways of doing that. they go abroad to a foreign training camp or zone try to look as they come back and try to stop them as they come back to revoke passports. there are some people who don t make it there. there are some people that obtain training and get back anyhow anyhow. to the point, professor, you have a situation where at least they re looking for three right now. if you have groups that are smaller doesn t that make it more difficult to detect as opposed to a larger cell as we refer to them as 9/11 and now the i have neck already we seem to use over and over are they lone wolfes or a couple of people? it is very difficult to really the so called lone wolf attacks have taken place in london australia, and france. it s, i mean this is the of the