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COOPER: And, Gary, you know, authorities have said to me, you know, an individual — lone individual is often the hardest attacked to rather prevent. That person may not have a social media profile, may not have be on the radar of law enforcement. The larger a cell gets, the more opportunities there are to connect the dots to try to prevent an attack like this.

But we still don’t know the full extent of this cell here. And it just really goes to show the difficulties for intelligence officials or law enforcer personnel to keep track of this sure number of suspects they have, particularly here in France, the sure number of people it takes to track somebody. Apparently this brothers though they were know, you know at least one of them had served time, that they were on the radar of intelligence officials here, they have been under at some times, some form of surveillance. But it seems like they kind of lay low for a while. Cherif Kouachi got a job in a fish market, seem to be not involved in anything. And clearly, French Intelligence stopped following him or stopped in paying as much attention to him as they have previously.

(GARY BERNTSEN, RETIRED CIA OFFICER): Anderson, the Europeans and the French in particular have problems that are the result of also 751 no-go-zones in France where you have Islamic communities that have formed councils that are managing these areas. And the police don’t go in. If you look at Sweden there are 55 no-go-zones there. You know, fire fighters or ambulance drivers go in there and they’re attacked. Their vehicles are lit on fire, their tires are slashed, and the Europeans have not pushed back against this. They can’t surveil people inside this no go zones if they get and go in there.

And so, consequentially, you have, you know hundreds of thousands people living in areas on enclaves that are completely separated from the government. The government has no control of them and then they can walk out of that no-go-zone and do an attack. The Europeans have lost their minds by allowing these things to be created. We don’t have that in the United States thank goodness but the Europeans are faced...

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VERJEE: Last November, the suburbs of Paris were in flames. The flames have died down now, but the resentment hasn’t. Karl Penhaul talked to some people in Paris, some of the immigrants living in those suburbs. And this is a story that’s part of our look at Europe’s identity cris.

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KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It’s nighttime in one of Paris’ toughest high-rise housing projects. This is the so- called city (INAUDIBLE) thousand. For outsiders others than the French police, it’s a virtual no-go zone.