Paris Hunts Islamic Terrorists
This morning, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that the country has since conducted 168 raids, detaining 23 suspects and putting more than 100 under house arrest.
“It’s just a start,” Cazeneuve said. “These operations are going to continue. The response of the Republic will be huge, will be total.”
Cazeneuve said that in those raids authorities seized a huge cache of weapons, including assault rifles, rocket launchers
Paris prosecutor François Molins said that five out of seven of the dead terrorists have been identified, but police are still on the hunt for an eighth suspect named as as 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam.
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“France is at war,” French President François Hollande told a joint meeting of Parliament. The attacks in Paris, he said, represent “an aggression against our country, against our values, against its youth and its way of life.”
Hollande said that he would seek a United Nations resolution to “fight against terrorism.”
“Meanwhile, France will intensify its military operations in Syria,” Hollande said.
He will ask Parliament to extend the country’s state of emergency for three months.
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CIA Director Brennan said the attacks seem “to have been carefully and deliberately planned” over a period of months.
Brennan said the attacks were “not a surprise.”
“We did have strategic warning” but apparently no specific or operational details, Brennan added. He said the plot bears “the hallmarks” of ISIS and that there has been a “significant increase in operational security” by the Islamic State. Jihadis “have gone to school on what they need to do” to evade detection by Western intel services, once again raising the specter of encryption.
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