Walid Phares on Paris Attack: This Was a ‘Military-Style Executed Operation’

"This is a military-style executed operation … You don’t have to be a real expert, you realize by comparison what we have seen, what we're seeing now in the footage, is an execution of a military operation. Look even at the way they hold their guns …

This is, Martha, something new. This is military unit executing an attack against a very specific target which is a newsroom. Forget that this is Charlie Hebdo. This is newsroom being attacked by a military unit of the jihadists. That’s what counts today …

In 2005 there were hundreds of, actually thousands of militants on the streets of Paris and 80 other French cities and villages and towns, burning 10,000 cars. At the time, on our channel I said, if this exists now, in years from now they may be using guns, not in 2005, but here comes 2015, 10 years later. They use guns."