New York Daily News - Paris Slaughter Vindicates Surveillance of City's Muslims, Rep. Pete King Says

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By Thomas Tracy, Tina Moore and Larry McShane

The terrorist slaughter in Paris by three men claiming Al Qaeda ties vindicates former Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly's surveillance of the city's Muslims, U.S. Rep. Pete King said.

"To me, it shows the importance of having that inside intelligence in a community," King told the Daily News Wednesday night. "That requires surveillance, and that's just reality. You can't let political correctness get in the way of that."

King (R-L.I.) noted that two of the terrorists were homegrown -- born in France.

The NYPD has beefed up security around the city, but has not revealed if the French Consulate has an increased police presence.

"You can have a million cops, and it's still a needle in a haystack," he said. "If you have the intelligence, that's the only way you can have any reasonable chance of stopping it."

The surveillance program was shuttered in April.

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Meanwhile, the NYPD ramped up security after the Paris terrorists killed a dozen people, with Commissioner Bill Bratton blaming well-trained killers for the carnage.

"Those three individuals aren't amateurs," Bratton said after the bloody rampage in the newsroom of a satirical magazine.

A Paris-based NYPD detective visited the crime scene and the hospital where survivors were brought, and was providing police brass with "detailed information," the commissioner added.

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