Senior Iraqi intelligence officials warned members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group of imminent assaults by the militant organization just one day before last week’s deadly attacks in Paris…
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French prosecutors said on Monday they had identified two more Paris attackers, including a Syrian and a Frenchman who was previously charged in a terrorist case.
A bomber who targeted the national stadium had a Syrian passport with the name Ahmad Al Mohammad, 25, prosecutors said.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a known extremist, has been identified by a French official as the mastermind of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
He was put under judicial supervision and he broke the conditions of his bail in late 2013, causing an global arrest warrant to be issued against him. The official reportedly added that he was connected to two more attacks that were thwarted – one on a high-speed train headed toward Paris earlier this year, and another at a Paris area church.
Also identified Sunday were his dead brother Ibrahim and Omar Ismail Mostefai, another of those who died at the Bataclan.
There is a match between the remains of a suicide bomber found at the Stade de France, north of the French capital, and the fingerprints of a person who was registered by Greek authorities as a refugee claimant in October, the Paris prosecutors’ office said in an e-mailed statement.
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Seven people have so far been taken into custody.
