Despite anger over American espionage of German citizens, including the spying on Angela Merkel, Germany continues to cooperate with the NSA. It has no choice. The Germans are very concerned about its citizens and the citizens of other European nations who have left Europe, mostly through Turkey to join Al Qaeda or the Islamic State to fight for their cause. They’re very concerned that these “foreign fighters” in Syria and Iraq will return to Europe and cause havoc for European society.
Some have already come back from the Middle East and there is nearly constant chatter about terrorist attacks on German soil. In one case, the returned French fighter, a Muslim, attacked a Jewish museum in Brussels killing four people. He was captured back in France still carrying his weapons.
Germany’s intelligence resources are estimated to be less than 10 percent of the NSA’s. Though these resources are very good as far as they go, the German’s just don’t have the capabilities the Americans have and are dependent on the United States to provide them with intelligence on the foreign fighters. Often when the Germans provide its intelligence partners limited information about a suspect, the NSA fills in the details with a lot more information.
Angela Merkel told the German parliament that U.S.-German cooperation would be curtailed after the revelations of Edward Snowden and declared that “trust needs to be rebuilt.” But cooperation continued in spite of a public backlash. In spite of its reservations on collecting personal data which is reminiscent of Germany’s Nazi and Stasi history, the nation is deeply dependent on the omnivorous nature of the U.S. intelligence apparatus for its own security. Germany continues to reluctantly provide detailed information on hundreds of German citizens and legal resident suspected of fighting in Iraq and Syria to the USA.
Of more than 15,000 foreign fighters in Syria, more than 550 are German citizens and nearly 2,500 are other Europeans. And there are probably more that haven’t yet been identified. Most are between the ages of 15 and 30, and are Muslims who failed to complete school and face dim economic prospects. This represents the largest contingent of Islamist Jihadists with Western passports that spy agencies have ever had to face.
“We’re just going to have to give it another try,” said an anonymous German official. “There is no alternative. Divorce is out of the question.” Nearly every country in Europe is turning over significant data to the United States. This is a global issue that is not likely to go away soon and Europe is vulnerable because European laws prevent pre-screening of incoming travelers. So, the Germans are living with the contradiction, a sort of love-hate relationship with the United States in national security.
Surveillance is essential to enforcement of globalist plans. If there is ever going to be a global worship law, there must be a global way of enforcing it. See Revelation 13:15-17.
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