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French officials ID attack mastermind

The sign reads: “Cariocas, for peace in France”.

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However, there are conflicting reports about the identity of the man.

England fan Robert Williams, wearing a beret and holding a French flag, says “tonight is more about solidarity than football…it is about remembering the people that have lost their lives in such tragic circumstances”.

Syria, the president said, has become “the biggest factory of terrorism the world has ever known and the global community is still too divided and too incoherent”.

He was reportedly involved in previously thwarted train and church attacks.

The rapidly moving investigation is revealing a picture of a network of terrorists, many of them born in Europe, who were trained in Syria or elsewhere in the Middle East, and managed to evade authorities even as they crossed borders.

Samy Amimour, 28, blew himself up inside the Bataclan theatre.

This man held an emergency passport or similar document and falsely declared himself to be a Syrian named Ahmad al Muhammad, born on September 10, 1990, the senator said.

At least three people have already been taken into custody after the Toulouse raids, according to local media.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Monday “we are at war” against terrorism.

Those attacks briefly united France in defence of freedom of speech, with a mass demonstration of more than a million people.

Later that month, Belgian police killed two suspected terrorists and arrested a third in a shootout in the eastern town of Verviers that they said prevented a major attack on law-enforcement officers.

Le Monde reported that Hadfi is the 20-year-old French citizen living in Belgium whom the Paris prosecutor’s office described but didn’t identify by name.

The German news agency dpa quoted police chief Volker Kluwe saying the information concerned an explosives attack.

At least one person has been arrested during the raid, DH newspaper reported.

The jets launched from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, in co-ordination with U.S. forces. He’ll be speaking from Turkey, where he has been at a meeting of the G20.

Brennan said the attacks were “not a surprise”.

French police raided more than 150 locations overnight as authorities released the names of two more potential suicide bombers involved in the Paris attacks.

The arrest warrant for Salah Abdeslam calls him very unsafe and warns people not to intervene if they see him. When Belgian police stopped the vehicle later Saturday, Abdeslam was no longer in it. The police let them go because there were no BOLOs (arrest warrants) for them.

European stock markets have opened lower but the retreat is less than many analysts were predicting in the wake of the attacks in Paris.

The Iraqi dispatch, which was obtained by the Associated Press, provided no details on when or where the attack would take place.

The first stadium attacker was carrying the passport, a French senator who was briefed by the Interior Ministry told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

The officials also said that a sleeper cell in France then met the attackers after their training and helped them to execute the plan. Since Friday night’s attacks, police have detained seven other people in Brussels whom they suspect have links to the atrocity.

President Francois Hollande has called the assault an “act of war” and vowed to hit back “without mercy”.

Abdeslam rented the black Volkswagen Polo used by the hostage-takers.

Belgian prosecutors said that two of them had resided in Belgium and that two of the cars used in the attacks had been rented in the country.

Belgian prosecutors said two of the attackers were Frenchmen who had lived in Brussels, at least one in the neighbourhood of Molenbeek which has been linked to radicalism.

As thousands gathered in central Paris in mourning and solidarity, authorities in at least five European countries scrambled to tie together leads and hunt down possible accomplices.

But the city’s museums will reopen today, including the Louvre and the Musee d’Orsay.

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French warplanes on Sunday bombarded the Syrian city that serves as the de facto capital for ISIS, the Islamic extremist group that has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

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