Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Alleged Ringleader of Paris Attacks, Killed in Raid

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Abdelhamid Abaaoud

BREAKING NEWS: Paris Attack Mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud Killed In Police SiegeFrancis Pate
FRANCIS PATE
11/19/2015 03:23:00  171
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  "   * Abaaoud died in six-hour gun battle with police at flat in northern Paris
      * Raids linked to suicide bomber Bilal Hadfi who attacked Stade de France
      * French PM calls on MPs to extend the state of emergency by three months
      * He said: 'We know there could be a risk of chemical or biological weapons'
   
   The suspected mastermind of the Paris terror attacks was killed in
   yesterday's dramatic police shoot-out, prosecutors have confirmed.
   
   Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, is believed to have been the
   ringleader of last Friday's massacres which left 129 dead.
   
   In a statement, the Paris prosecutor's office confirmed that Abaaoud
   died in the raid and that his body had been identified based on skin
   samples.
   
   He died in a ferocious six-hour gun and grenade battle which saw 5,000
   rounds of ammunition fired by police in the raid in Saint-Denis, north
   of Paris.
   
   Scroll down for video
   
   
   Dead: Belgian jihadist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of
   the Paris terror attacks, was killed in yesterday's dramatic police
   shoot-out, prosecutors have confirmed
   
   
  Abdelhamid Abaaoud (left) died in a gun battle which saw 5,000 rounds
   of ammunition fired by police
   
   
   Abaaoud died in a ferocious six-hour gun and grenade battle which saw
   5,000 rounds of ammunition fired by police in the raid (above) in
   Saint-Denis, north of Paris, in the hunt for the Paris massacre suspects
   
   Police launched the operation after receiving information from tapped
   phone calls, surveillance and tip-offs suggesting that Abaaoud was
   holed up there. 
   
   Abaaoud's French-born cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, 27, was also believed
   to have been killed in the siege.
   
   A blonde-haired woman, said to be Aitboulahcen, became Europe's first
   female suicide bomber when she detonated her explosive vest moments
   after telling police 'Help me, help me'.
   
   A French anti-terrorist commander today described watching her head
   'fly through a window' and land on the street outside.
   
   Another jihadi's body was found riddled with bullets when more than 100
   armed officers stormed the flat in Saint-Denis believing Abaaoud was
   inside with six other terrorists, including Salah Abdeslam.
   
   It comes as anti-terror police have stormed six addresses in a
   notorious jihadi hotbed in Brussels linked to one of the Paris suicide
   bombers.
   
   Prosecutors said the raids took place in the Molenbeek district and
   other areas of the city, centering on the 'entourage' of Bilal Hadfi,
   who blew himself up at the Stade de France.
   
   
   French police forensics experts are seen outside the rue du Corbillon
   building in Saint-Denis, northern Paris on Thursday, 24 hours after a
   six-hour firefight between suspected ISIS extremists and police
   
   
   Aftermath: A forensics squad inspects a blood-covered mattress dumped
   in the glass-covered street outside the Saint-Denis flat used by seven
   suspected terrorists
   
   The raids came as France's prime minister warned that terrorists linked
   to the Paris cell could attack the country with chemical and biological
   weapons.
   
   Manuel Valls has called on MPs to extend the country's state of
   emergency for another three months amid fears another attack was
   imminent.
   
   Presenting a bill to the lower house of Parliament, he said 'terrorism
   hit France, not because of what it is doing in Iraq and Syria... but
   for what it is.'
   
   He added: 'We know there could also be a risk of chemical or biological
   weapons.' 
   
   In its English-language magazine, ISIS said it will continue its
   violence and 'retaliate with fire and bloodshed' for insults against
   the Prophet Mohammed and 'the multitudes killed and injured in crusader
   air strikes'.
   
   
   Mystery suspect: Hooded police officers pull a man arrested in the gun
   battle through crowds of other officers and soldiers as the Saint-Denis
   siege ended after six hours
   
   
   Drama: A suspect was dragged from the building and broken glass with no
   trousers on as police trained their weapons on the flat
   
   
   Police were seen moving in on the apartment where the female suicide
   bomber blew herself up after firing an AK-47 machine at officers
   
   
   Arrests: Seven people were arrested in the lengthy pre-dawn operation,
   including two people away from the under siege flat, left outside a
   shopping centre and right near the apartment block
   
   French foreign minister Laurent Fabius urged the international
   community to do more to eradicate ISIS, which claimed responsibility
   for last Friday's attacks on a rock concert, Parisian cafes and the
   national stadium.
   
   Mr Fabius, speaking on France-Inter radio, said the group 'is a
   monster. But if all the countries in the world aren't capable of
   fighting against 30,000 people (ISIS members), it's incomprehensible'. 
   
   France has stepped up its air strikes against extremists in Syria since
   the attack and French president Francois Hollande is going to
   Washington and Moscow next week to push for a stronger international
   coalition against ISIS.
   
   Speaking after the seven-hour siege in Saint-Denis, Mr Hollande said
   that France was 'at war' with the terror group.
   
   
   Baby-faced bomber: Anti-terror police have stormed six addresses in
   Brussels linked to Paris attacker Bilal Hadfi (above), who blew himself
   up at the Stade de France
   
   PARIS ATTACKS COST LESS THAN £7,000 TO PULL OFF, SAY EXPERTS
   
   The Paris attacks would have cost ISIS less than £7,000 to pull off,
   according to terrorism experts.
   
   Although the operation was sophisticated and devastating, the weapons
   used were crude and the overheads minimal, they say.
   
   One counter-terrorism official said the figure was not 'implausible'
   because the biggest expense would have the AK-47s bought on the black
   market.
   
   Another told NBC News: 'I would note that although the attacks were
   co-ordinated, the actual method was basic bombs and guns.'
   
   Travel costs would also have been minimal as most of the attackers were
   either based in Paris or just 160 miles away in Brussels.
   
   The group are known to have hired three small hatchbacks, booked rooms
   at a low-budget hotel and rented a safehouse for a week.
   
   Experts say the costs involved were a fraction of the £85,000 used in
   the foiled plot to attack U.S. ships in the Strait of Hormuz in 2002 or
   the £48,000 price tag of the suicide and car bombings that killed more
   than 200 in Bali in 2002.
   
   They also pale in comparison with the £320,000 spent on 9/11, although
   that plot involved extensive travel and pilot training as well as
   living expenses over a number of years.
   
   Many terror attacks, however, are carried out on a shoestring.
   
   Others including the truck bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and
   Tanzania in 1998 and the bombing of the USS cole in Yemen which killed
   17 people in 2000 also cost less than £7,000.
   
   'Terrorism is not an expensive sport,' said one former senior Treasury
   Department official.
   
   In neighbouring Belgium, where many of the Paris attackers lived, prime
   minister Charles Michel announced a package of additional anti-terror
   measures and said €400million (£280 million) would be earmarked to
   expand the fight.
   
   He told politicians that security personnel will be increased and
   special attention will be paid to eradicating messages of hate.
   
   He also called for more international co-operation, and said he wants
   to amend the Belgian constitution to extend the length of time terror
   suspects can be held by police without charge.
   
   'All democratic forces have to work together to strengthen our
   security,' Mr Michel said.
   
   Jean-Michel Fauvergue, 56, led the tactical RAID police unit
   responsible for yesterday's assault on a house in the Paris suburb of
   St-Denis in which a man and a woman died yesterday.
   
   Describing Aitboulahcen's death, he said: 'After a long firefight, we
   heard a loud explosion. The windows of an apartment were shattered,
   blown from inside to outside.
   
   'That's when we saw a human body, a woman's head, fly through the
   window and land on the pavement, on the other side of the street.
   
   'A suicide bomber had just exploded. The blast was so devastating that
   a supporting wall moved.'
   
   Mr Fauvergue said sniper fire then hit a male terrorist who was firing
   at police but 'despite this, the shots (from the terrorist) continued'.
   
   
   He added: 'Two theories – he was fighting for his life, or there was a
   third man inside. Our snipers thus launched grenades to saturate the
   space.'
   
   Mr Fauvergue described the terrorist cell as 'real professionals' who
   were 'super motivated' and confirmed that his force fired at least
   5,000 rounds at them, as well as scores of grenades using rifle-mounted
   launchers.
   
   With both terrorists blown to pieces, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins
   said detailed forensic work was still going on to establish who was who.
   
   While security sources have claimed Abaaoud was in fact killed, he
   could still be at large, along with Salah Abdeslam, the 29-year-old who
   hired cars and hotel rooms for the Paris killers.
   
   
   Mr Valls warned that terrorists linked to the Paris cell could attack
   the country with chemical weapons
   
   Eight people were arrested in the raid, including two found in the
   rubble of the building close to the Stade de France, where last
   Friday's attacks started with suicide bombings during a France-Germany
   football international.
   
   Describing the attack further to Le Parisien newspaper, Mr Fauvergue
   described how officers were wounded by grenades thrown by the ISIS
   operatives, and Diesel, a RAID Belgian Shepherd Dog who was killed. 
   
   Mr Fauvergue said: 'We were subjected to heavy fire, with real
   professionals facing us. They were shooting in bursts, or in single
   shots, in turn, so that their fire didn't stop.
   
   'This also allowed them to save their ammunition. They were super
   motivated. This first phase lasted more than half an hour.
   
   'Grenades were thrown at our feet. These caused numerous wounds to the
   arms and legs of the RAID commandos.
   
   'We replied in kind. The intensity of their firing was calmer. It
   became sporadic.
   
   'We sent a dog in to explore the place. He was killed. There's little
   doubt that he saved the lives of police officers who were about to
   enter.'
   
   
   French Prime Minister Manuel Valls addresses lawmakers at the National
   Assembly during a debate on a measure that would extend a state of
   emergency declared by the French president until the end of February
   
   Describing the death of the male terrorist, Mr Fauvergue said: 'The
   situation wasn't clear. Sure we had them 'fixed', but we still didn't
   know how many were inside.
   
   'Snipers engaged fire, hitting a terrorist. Despite this, the shots
   continued.
   
   'Two theories – he was fighting for his life, or there was a third man
   inside. Our snipers thus launched grenades to saturate the space.
   
   'The building was very dilapidated. At different times of the assault,
   floors gave way, just like the water pipes.
   
   'We couldn't advance. We concentrated on a slower approach, using
   tracked robots which were blocked by the rubble.
   
   'Outside, drones equipped with cameras watched the skylight. A second
   dog opened the way.
   
   'We also came down a floor, entering the apartment on the second floor,
   situated directly below. It was there that we came across a body.
   
   'Poles with cameras on the end allowed us to see what was happening
   upstairs. It was chaotic.'
   
   President Francois Hollande has declare a State of Emergency in France,
   warning that further terrorist attacks are likely.
   
   Sick taunts of the Paris mastermind: Abdelhamid Abaaoud boasted of
   freely crossing Europe's borders to plot atrocities – even after being
   arrested and with 'my name and picture all over the news'
   
   The mastermind of the Paris massacres previously bragged about
   travelling across Europe at will to plot atrocities – even after being
   arrested.
   
   Belgian extremist Abdelhamid Abaaoud is one of the top recruiters for
   ISIS now among the world's most wanted war criminals after
   orchestrating the Paris attacks that killed 129 people.
   
   Despite being on wanted lists, he has shuttled between Syria and
   Europe, exploiting the migrant crisis on EU borders.
   
   The 27-year-old has been able to plan two atrocities and brainwash
   hundreds of young men to join Islamic State, including his 13-year-old
   brother.
   
   
   Kingpin: Abaaoud fled Belgium for Syria and has become an ISIS
   executioner, recruiter and trainer and one of the world's most wanted
   men
   
   
   Abaaoud is pictured left in a still from the video, while a fellow ISIS
   extremist is seen right. The pair are seen in the depraved video footage
   
   Abaaoud was also seen driving a pick-up truck with a mound of bloody
   corpses in tow. One of his accomplices sits perched on the back, while
   another can be heard complaining about the smell.
   
   He told an ISIS propaganda magazine he was arrested in Europe in
   January preparing a mission to kill civilians and behead policemen.
   Incredibly, he claims he was not detained.
   
   'My name and picture were all over the news yet I was able to stay in
   their homeland, plan operations against them and leave safely when
   doing so became necessary,' he said.
   
   His earlier plot – in January in the eastern Belgian city of Verviers –
   was thwarted when police raided the terrorists' hideout, killing two
   suspects.
   
   Abaaoud was not found and is thought to have been in Turkey or Greece
   directing the pair by phone.
   
   Police found four Kalashnikovs, four handguns, ammunition and
   explosives during the raid as well as a police radio and uniforms.
   
   
   Abaaoud, who has regularly posed with bodies he decapitated and was
   seen in Greece in January but evaded arrest, was also linked to the
   thwarted high speed train attack earlier this year and church attacks
   around Paris. He is pictured dragging the bodies of victims in Syria
   
   Two days later, officials in Athens announced they had captured Abaaoud
   but he had given them the slip.
   
   Describing his return to Belgium for the beheading plot, he said he and
   his fellow fanatics faced a number of trials but 'were able to obtain
   weapons and set up a safe house while we planned to carry out
   operations'.
   
   He added: 'After the raid on the safe house, they figured out that I
   had been with the brothers and that we had been planning operations
   together.
   
   'So they gathered intelligence agents from all over the world – from
   Europe and America – in order to detain me. I was able to leave and
   come to Syria despite being chased after by so many intelligence
   agencies.
   
   All this proves that a Muslim should not fear the bloated image of the
   crusader intelligence.'
   
   
   Sick: Bodies of Abaaoud's victims in Syria are pictured tied to the
   extremist's truck, seconds before he drives away and drags them along
   
   The brothers he recruited – Brahim and Salah Abdeslam – took part in
   the cafe and restaurant attacks on Friday night.
   
   Brahim, 31, blew himself up in the Comptoir Voltaire bar while Salah,
   26, is the subject of an international manhunt. He was stopped by
   police on the Belgian border but not detained.
   
   The fanatics grew up in the now notorious Molenbeek district of
   Brussels, a hotbed of radical Islam.
   
   Abaaoud's father Omar ran a clothes shop just a few doors down from the
   Abdeslam family home in the main square in Molenbeek.
   
   Benollal Mohamet, who runs a pharmacy there, said: 'He would have known
   the Abdeslam brothers, they were the same age, they lived near each
   other – it was inevitable that their paths would have crossed. I would
   never have predicted this.'
   
   Abaaoud attended one of Brussels' most prestigious schools – Collège
   Saint-Pierre – but he fell into trouble with the law and was jailed for
   theft. It is claimed he was then radicalised in Saint Gilles prison in
   southern Brussels and went to Syria to join IS.
   
   In August he was linked to the terrorist behind a failed attack on a
   high-speed train from Brussels to Paris.
   
   His father had reported him to police after his youngest son,
   13-year-old Younes, went missing last year.
   
   In an interview in January he told of his shame, saying his son had
   ruined his family. 'Why in God's name would he want to kill innocent
   Belgians? Our family owes everything to this country,' he added.
   
   In July, Abaaoud was sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison for
   recruiting ISIS fighters to Syria. Many of the 32 people charged with
   him remain at large.
   
   
   Abdelhamid Abaaoud, one of the world's most wanted war criminals, is
   pictured taking aim with a rifle in a photo taken earlier this year
   
   Belgian authorities refused to comment on Abaaoud's whereabouts last
   night – he is believed to be in Syria – or his claim that he had been
   stopped by police and let go.
   
   In a video released last year he said: 'All my life, I have seen the
   blood of Muslims flow. Pray that Allah will break the backs of those
   who oppose him, his soldiers and his admirers, and that he will
   exterminate them.'
   
   Another video shows him loading a pick-up truck and a makeshift trailer
   with a mound of bloodied corpses.
   
   Trying to recruit others, he says: 'Are you satisfied with the life you
   lead, a humiliating life, whether you are in Europe, in Africa, in Arab
   countries or in America? Are you satisfied with this life, with this
   life of humiliation? Is there anything better than jihad or a martyr?'
   
   It was claimed that Abaaoud and Salah Abdeslam once carried out a
   robbery together. Belgian broadcaster RTL said Salah had spent time in
   prison in Belgium for 'hold-ups' and the name of Abaaoud figured in the
   court and police documents relating to the case.
   
   According to the De Standaard newspaper, Abaaoud is also mentioned in
   files relating to Brahim Abdeslam for alleged crimes carried out in
   Brussels in 2010 and 2011.
   
   Abaaoud even featured in an online ISIS terror magazine Dabiq featuring
   his life as a Jihadi.
   
   According to the interview, he traveled to Syria 'to terrorise the
   crusaders waging war against the Muslims'.
   
   He said: 'Belgium is a member of the crusader coalition attacking the
   Muslims of Iraq and Sham (Syria).
   
   Abaaoud claimed that in the past he returned to Belgium to set up a
   safe house to plan further raids across Europe.
   
   He said his plot failed: 'The kuffar raided the pace with more than 150
   soldiers from both French and Belgian special forces units.' He said
   both of his men were killed in the shootout.
   
   He claimed it was after this, he returned to Syria due to the
   attentions of European security agencies.
   
   French police have said Abaaoud planned the attack from his base in
   Syria with help in Belgium and France.
   
   Abaaoud, who has regularly posed with bodies he decapitated and was
   seen in Greece in January but evaded arrest, was also linked to the
   thwarted high speed train attack earlier this year and church attacks
   around Paris.
   
   

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Paris, Now November 19, 2015 10:00 am
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Alleged Ringleader of Paris Attacks, Killed in Raid
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/paris-attacks-abdelhamid-abaaoud-dead

From Balkis Press/SIPA USA/AP Images.

  "The 27-year-old Abaaoud had been a prominent recruiter in Europe.
    BY TINA NGUYEN

   Officials on Thursday morning confirmed that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the
   27-year-old ISIS terrorist who was suspected of planning and executing
   last week's deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, had indeed been killed
   during an earlier raid on a Paris apartment.
   
   The Paris prosecutor's office released a statement confirming earlier
   reports of Abaaoud's death :
https://twitter.com/rcallimachi/status/667320280289705989
   Forensic evidence found in the aftermath of
   a seven-hour raid on the Saint-Denis apartment confirmed his death, and
   according to CNN, his body was "riddled with bullets".
   
   The prosecutor's office also confirmed the death of a second suspect: a
   woman who blew herself up, making her the first female suicide bomber
   in Europe, and was Abaaoud's cousin.
   
   Eight suspects were taken into custody after the protracted shootout,
   during which 5,000 bullets were fired and the floor of an apartment
   building collapsed. Law enforcement suffered only one casualty: a
   police dog.
   
   
   Outside Abaaoud's raided apartment in Saint Denis.
   By Eric Feferberg/Getty Images.
   
   Earlier in the year members of Abaaoud's own family told The New York
   Times that they had wished him dead for running away from home and
   joining ISIS. The Belgian resident became one of the major faces of the
   group after a video of him cheerfully dragging corpses with a truck
   went viral, and he convinced his 13-year-old brother to join him. He
   became one of ISIS's top organizers in Europe, and was the target of a
   manhunt earlier this year.
   
   Tipsters alerted authorities to Abaaoud's presence in Saint-Denis, a
   neighborhood with a large Muslim population, and believed that he was
   staying with relatives.
   
   Seven assailants were killed in the Paris attacks, which left 129 dead
   and hundreds more injured. One suspected planner, Salah Abdeslam, is
   still at large and is believed to have traveled to Belgium.
   
   Photos:
   Scenes from Paris After the Deadly Attacks
   http://www.vanityfair.com/news/photos/2015/11/scenes-paris-deadly-attacks
   
   "

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Who were the terrorists? Everything we know about the Isil attackers so far
At least three of the attackers had been to fight with Islamic State in Syria it emerges
as more links between the attackers are disclosed

Paris terror suspects: (Clockwise from top left) Salah Abdeslam, Bilal Hadfi, Ahmad Almohamad, Omar Mostefai, Samy Amimour and Abdelhamid Abaaoud
By Ben Farmer, and Telegraph staff 4:47AM GMT 20 Nov 2015
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11996120/Paris-attack-what-we-know-about-the-suspects.html

   Omar Ismail Mostefai - died at the Bataclan
   
   Mostefai was the first to be identified of the dead gunmen and suicide
   bombers who carried out Friday night's simultaneous attacks across
   Paris.
   
   
   A video uncovered by French news outlet BFMTV seems to show Paris
   attacker Omar Mustefai performing rap music  Photo: BFMTV
   
   French police ignored two warnings about Mostefai, before he helped
   carry out the attack on the Bataclan concert hall which killed 89 young
   music fans.
   
    Turkish authorities twice flagged up the 29-year-old as a possible
   terror suspect last year, but their alerts were unanswered until after
   Friday's Paris attacks.
   
    The Frenchman born to Algerian parents was a known radical and is
   believed to have trained with Isil inside Syria last year.
   
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   Mostefai made contact with the extremists in Syria after travelling
   through Turkey in late 2013, security officials said, staying until at
   least early 2014.
   
    Old friends of the jihadist also described how they had once tried to
   alert the French police to his radical views, only to be told the
   authorities could do nothing.
   
    He was identified by prints from his severed finger found in the
   Bataclan, after the deadliest of the Paris attacks.
   
    After being born to Algerian parents and growing up in the poor south
   Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, he moved to the historic cathedral city
   of Chartres, west of the capital, where his brother ran a shisha bar.
   
   

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   After being arrested for a string of petty offences in his youth, but
   never being jailed, his religious views became increasingly extreme and
   in 2010 he was marked up by intelligence agencies as a potential
   radical.
   
    He was tracked to Syria but Turkish authorities have no record of him
   leaving. A senior Turkish official said the country had also identified
   Omar Ismail Mostefai as a possible "terror suspect" in October 2014 and
   notified the French in December 2014 and then June 2015.
   
    France did not respond until after the attacks, when it was too late.
   
    Friends told Germany's Bild newspaper they had informed French
   security services after becoming concerned at his radicalisation, only
   to be told they were powerless to do anything.
   
    One friend said Mostefai's father had been involved in the Algerian
   war and belonged to a military group involved in Afghanistan and
   Pakistan.
   
    Mostefai was described as friendly, religious and a talented
   footballer, but his views became increasingly extreme in 2009. French
   papers reported he had fallen under the spell of a radical Belgian imam
   of Morrocan origin at his mosque in the Luce suburb of Chartres.
   Another French jihadist who was later killed in Syria lived only a few
   streets from Mostefai, who moved on from Chartres in 2012.
   
    The Abdeslam brothers
   
   Salah Abdeslam - on the run
   
   
   
   A major manhunt remains under way for Salah Abdeslam, a Belgian-born
   French national who has been on the run since the attacks.
   
    French police have issued an international arrest warrant and
   described the 26-year-old as highly dangerous, warning anyone who comes
   across him not to approach him.
   
    Abdeslam rented the black VW in Belgium that was found abandoned near
   the Bataclan concert hall.
   
    He was stopped near the Belgian border on Saturday morning in a grey
   VW golf, with two unknown accomplices, but was not arrested at the
   time.
   
    French officials have admitted police had the fugitive in their grasp,
   but let him go after checking his ID.
   
    As the manhunt continued on Monday, a number of links between Abdeslam
   and the suspected attack mastermind, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, began to
   emerge.
   
    Both men are childhood friends and lived in the Molenbeek suburb of
   Brussels which has become notorious for radicalisation. The two were
   jailed for armed robbery in 2010.
   
    Police targeting Abdeslam raided a property in Molenbeek, Belgium, on
   Monday lunchtime but no arrests were made.
   
    Between 2009 and 2011 Abdeslam worked as a mechanic for STIB, the
   Belgian state railway, working in a district Brussels.
   
    Abdeslam, his brother Ibrahim, and other family members ran a number
   of business ventures together. He was the manager of a café set up by
   his brother Ibrahim.
   
   Three people were arrested in Germany on Tuesday in connection with the
   attacks.
   
    Spiegel magazine has named the man arrested in Germany in connection
   with the Paris attacks as Kamal A, 29, and his two female companions as
   Lava M, 28, and Didem A, 32.
   
    They were arrested after an employee at a local supermarket saw the
   group and believed she recognised the man as Salah Abdeslam, the
   suspected Paris attacker who is on the run, the magazine reported on
   its website.
   
    It is not currently clear whether the arrested man is Abdeslam using
   an alias or the arrests are a case of mistaken identity.
   
    On Tuesday afternoon, police were still questioning the three
   suspects. A friend of the brothers has described Salah Abdeslam as a
   hell-raiser. Speaking to Ouest-France the man, who gives his name as
   "Omar" described him as a man with a frantic hedonistic lifestyle,
   staying out late and rarely surfacing before 3pm, with a number of
   casual girlfriends - including at one point an English girl.
   
   Ibrahim Abdeslam - suicide bomber
   
    The older brother of Salah Abdeslam blew himself up outside the
   Comptoir Voltaire café.
   
    The 31-year-old and his brother ran a number of businesses together
   with other relatives, but appeared to resign their share in them just
   weeks before the attacks.
   
   

   Paris attacks: How the night of horror unfolded
   
   Ibrahim founded a café which was managed by his brother Salah and was
   temporarily shut down for drugs offences several years ago. Local
   newspaper reports said the brothers had transferred their shares in the
   café to an unknown party after a meeting in September. The café was
   called Beguine, in the Rue des Beguines, and accounts show it had
   £10,000 in the bank, L'Echo reported.
   
    The pair also ran a grocers in Molenbeek.
   
    A man who lived near the cafe, who did not wish to give his name,
   said: "Ibrahim was the proprietor, but the cafe is closed now. I used
   to go there every day after work, on my way home. We would go there to
   smoke hashish, drink alcohol, no problem.
   
    "Ibrahim and I played cards together, we laughed and joked. He talked
   to everyone, he was very generous. I would have a drink and he would
   say don't worry about playing. I used to play cards with Salah too, he
   was often at the cafe.
   
    "Ibrahim used to go to discos, he would drink alcohol, smoke. But he
   stopped drinking alcohol in the last year."
   
    The third brother, Mohamed Abdeslam, was arrested on Saturday in
   Brussels but was released on Monday without charge.
   
    He has since released a statement saying he had no idea that his
   brothers had been radicalised.
   
    He said: "My parents are truly shocked. I am thinking of the victims.
   I did not know that they had been radicalised."
   
   
   Brother of two Paris attack suspects Mohammed Abdeslam was arrested and
   then let go by the police. Here, he speaks outside the family home
   
   Three brothers are thought to have been involved in the attacks and one
   may remain at large.
     
   Bilal Hadfi - died in suicide bomb at Stade de France
   
    Hadfi, known as the "baby-faced jihadi," was one of two suicide
   bombers who attacked the Stade de France.
   
    The 20-year-old French national, who lived in Neder-over- Heembeek,
   Belgium, had recently called for attacks on the "infidel dogs" of the
   West.
   
    He was raised in Belgium, briefly attending a secondary school in the
   region of Diest.
   
    Until very recently, he was a typical teenager who was obsessed with
   football, regularly updating his Facebook profile with news and
   comments about his favourite teams.
   
    After leaving school, he is believed to have trained as an electrician.
   
   
   Belgian suicide bomber Bilal Hadfi
   
   But at some point within the last two years, he was radicalised by a
   Belgian imam, according to Het Laatste Nieuws. He began associating
   with hardline extremists and quickly transformed into a young man
   intent on following jihad.
   
    He fought with Islamic State in Syria as recently as this spring,
   using the names Abu Moudjahid Al-Belgiki and Bilal Al Mouhajir.
   
    On his return to Belgium, Hadfi disappeared from the radar of Belgian
   security services.
   
    In July, he issued a call on Facebook for attacks in the West.
   
    "To the brothers who reside in the lands of the infidels," he said in
   a now-deleted video post. "Those dogs are our citizens everywhere.
   
    "Hit the pigs in their communities so they no longer feel safe even in
   their dreams."
   
    He was reportedly friends on Facebook with the Syrian Jihadi Abu
   Isleym, who posed with a decapitated body on the social networking
   site.
   
    Hadfi and several other attackers, known as the "Belgium cell" are
   believed to have armed themselves in Brussels before travelling to
   Paris in rental vehicles.
   
    He was the second man to detonate his suicide vest, near gate H of the
   stadium, killing no one else.
   
    'Ahmad Al Mohammad' - died in suicide bomb at Stade de France
   
    The real name of the suicide bomber apparently carrying a fake Syrian
   passport when he detonated at the Stade de France remains a mystery,
   but officials say he entered Europe as an asylum seeker less than two
   months earlier.
   
    The counterfeit document bearing the name 'Ahmad al Mohammad' was
   found alongside the body, whose fingerprints match a man using the name
   to enter Greece in early October.
   
    Federica Mogherini, the EU's chief diplomat, said all the attackers
   are believed to be EU citizens, however, raising the possibility the
   man was using the fake passport to re-enter Europe, possibly because
   his real identity was on a watch list.
   
   
   Salah Abdelsalam, right, Ahmad Almohammad, left, and Omar Mustefai, inset
   
   The discovery has raised fears other militants may have used the
   migrant crisis to pose as refugees and enter Europe among crowds making
   their way from Greece through the Balkans to Western Europe.
   
   The passport's journey
   
   
   
   Greek authorities say the passport was used by an asylum seeker who
   registered on the island of Leros on October 3 after his makeshift boat
   from Turkey carrying around 70 migrants foundered off the coast and he
   was picked up by Greek coastguards.
   
    He then reportedly applied for asylum in Serbia before travelling on
   to Croatia, Hungary and eventually to France.
   
    Samy Amimour - died in suicide bomb at Bataclan
   
   ===================================================================
   profile
   Samy Amimour
   
   Age: 28
   Nationality: French
   Lived: Drancy in northern Paris, where he was born
   Status: Died at the Bataclan
   
   Amimour was one of the three gunmen who killed at least 89 in the
   Bataclan concert hall.
   
   The former bus driver was placed on a watch list of potential
   terrorists after attempting to travel to Yemen in 2012.
   
   French police issued an international arrest warrant in 2013, after he
   went missing and was suspected of having travelled to Syria to join
   Islamic State.
   
   Amimour's father travelled to Raqqa in Syria to persuade his son to
   come back to France. Amimour insisted on staying with Isil, where he
   had married and adopted the name Abu Hajia – meaning war.
   ===================================================================
   
   Samy Amimour, one of the three gunmen who killed at least 89 in the
   Bataclan concert hall, was placed on a watch list of potential
   terrorists after attempting to travel to Yemen three years ago.
   
    The 28-year-old former bus driver was placed under judicial
   supervision following an attempt to travel to the region in 2012.
   
    But French police issued an international arrest warrant the following
   year, after he went missing and was suspected of having travelled to
   Syria to join Islamic State.
   
    Amimour's father Mohamed travelled to Raqqa in Syria a few months
   later in an attempt to persuade his son to come back to France. Amimour
   had been wounded in battle but refused the money offered to get him
   home and insisted to his father he was going to remain with Islamic
   State, where he had married and adopted the name Abu Hajia – meaning
   war.
   
    According to friends however Amimour reappeared in Paris in recent
   months and had undergone a radical transformation in appearance.
   
    On Monday friends of Amimour living in the south western suburb of
   Drancy where he grew up, told The Telegraph that when they last saw him
   he appeared to have adopted a radical mindset.
   
    Mouzamil Mohammed, 15, who used to pray with Amimour at a nearby
   mosque, said: "Samy changed the way he dressed. He used to dress very
   normally, but I don't know how long ago he changed because I haven't
   seen him for a while. I don't know if he went on long trips, but when I
   saw him again he had a big beard and dressed very traditionally in a
   long white robe, but he didn't wear a hat."
   
    Abdel Hamid Abaaoud - mastermind of the attack who died in police raid
   in Saint-Denis
   
    Abdel Hamid Abaaoud is the suspected brains behind the attack, who
   died as a result of injuries sustained when a woman detonated a suicide
   belt during a police raid in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis.
   
    Abaaoud was believed to be the leaders of the Vervier cell of returned
   Syrian jihadists that was broken up by police in January in a deadly
   shootout.
   
    The name of Paris attacker Ibrahim Abdeslam appears in several police
   files alongside leading militant Abdelhamid Abaaoud relating to
   criminal cases in 2010 and 2011, Flemish-language newspaper De
   Standaard reported.
   
   
   Aged 27 and from Molenbeek, he was sentenced to 20 years in abstentia
   along with 32 other jihadists.
   
    His father Omar is a grocer in Molenbeek and he is reputed to have
   taken his brother Younes, 13, to Syria with him in January 2014.
   
    His family apparently announced his death at some point, but this may
   have been a ruse.
   
   
   A framegrab made from an undated video released by the jihadist group
   calling itself Islamic State (IS) video allegedly showing Abdelhamid
   Abaaoud at an undisclosed location   Photo: EPA
   
   He has claimed in the IS English-language magazine Dabiq to have
   rejoined the group in Syria, and has featured in Isil propaganda videos
   and their magazine, boasting of how he evaded police.
   
    He is believed to have been in Raqqa in April/June 2014, then Tabka,
   Deir ez Zor and finally Kobani.
   
    A reporter for French newspaper Liberation claims that he was also in
   contact with the attacker of the Thalys train in August 2015, Ayoub
   El-Khazzani.
   
    Hasna Aiboulahcen - the female suicide bomber in Saint-Denis
   
    Hasna Aiboulahcen, the 26-year old Frenchwoman who blew herself up
   during Wednesday's police assault in Saint Denis was a "drinker" and
   liked to be called "the cowgirl", according to French reports, as it
   emerged that she often visited her Moroccan father in eastern France.
   
    The father, 75, has a flat in the town of Creutzwald, near Metz, but
   moved back to Morocco six months ago, according to the town's mayor.
   According to Le Monde, Moroccan intelligence played a part in pointing
   the finger at Hasna, leading to the flat where she was staying.
   
    Investigators believe that Aiboulahcen was the cousin of Abdelhamid
   Abaaoud, the suspected Isil operational mastemind behind the Paris
   attacks who may have been killed in the police raid in Saint-Denis.
   
   
   It has been reported by Belgium and French press that Hasna
   Aitboulahcen was the female suicide bomber who blew herself up as
   police raided a flat in Saint-Denis
   
   Police carried out a largescale search of the district around his flat
   in the impasse du Dauphiné on Wednesday night in Creutzwald, population
   13,000.
   
    Born in Clichy-La-Garenne outside Paris and raised by her mother, she
   never lived with the father.
   
    However, she visited him regularly, staying for two to three weeks at
   at time. According to the Républicain Lorrain, a former acquaintance
   said: "She was an extravert, a bit lost .She didn't really look like a
   suicide bomber and she drunk alcohol."
   
    Another is cited as saying: " We remember her well. She liked to go by
   the name of 'the cowgirl' because she wore a big hat".
   
    However, that was five years ago. She has not been seen in the area
   since.
   
    Jean-Luc Wosniak, the mayor of Creutzwald, said: "(The father), 75,
   from Marakkesh, settled in Creutzwald in the 1970s. Since July, he has
   returned to live in Morocco but keeps a pied a terre in Creutzwald."
   
    She "went off the radar" in 2013, according to Républicain Lorrain,
   "the last time the young woman's name appears on official documents was
   May 15, 2013, in a legal announcement from a court in Bobigny
   (northeast of Paris), where is named manager of Beko Construction, a
   company in Clichy-Sous-Bois (in Seine-Saint-Denis). The company has
   been inactive for two years."
   
    She is France's first female suicide bomber, and her detonation killed
   a police dog named Diesel.
   
    How are the suspects linked?
   
   
   
   Up to 20 involved in attack
   
    With seven suicide bombers dead, seven others under arrest and one man
   on the run, 15 men have so far been linked to the Paris attacks.
   
   ====================================================================
   In Quotes
   François Hollande addresses MPs about Paris
   
   
   Photo:Christelle Alix
   
   On terrorism: "France is at war. But we are not engaged in a war of
   civilisations, because these assassins do not represent any"
   On intensifying strikes on Isil in Syria: "We will pursue airstrikes in
   the weeks to come. Our enemy in Syria is Daesh (Isil): it's not about
   containing but destroying this organisation"
   On the victims of the Paris terror attacks: "The terrorists were
   targeting a France that is open to the world. Most of the dead were not
   even 30. They were called Mattias, Quentin, Nick, Noemie, Djamila,
   Helene, Elodie, Valentin...What was their only crime? To be alive"
   ====================================================================
   
   But Belgian intelligence officials have suggested that up to 20 people
   may have been part of the terrorist cell that planned the attacks,
   meaning a total of six people could be on the run.
   
    Attack could have been planned in Syria
   
    Some evidence points to the attack having been planned in Syria, where
   the town of Raqqa has become the de-facto capital of the so-called
   "Caliphate" of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
   
    An anti-Isil activist living in Deir Ezzor, a town partly held by Isil
   between Raqqa and the Iraqi border, told The Sunday Telegraph that
   earlier this year he overheard foreign fighters plotting a "huge"
   terror attack in Paris from an internet cafe.
   
    Tim Ramadan, who works with the group "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered
   Silently", said a fighter using the nom-de-guerre Abu Ibrahim al-Belgi
   - "father of Ibrahim, from Belgium" - was speaking to a "commander" who
   gave the orders for an attack.
   
    "He said two (fighters) were sent in March and two more would be sent
   in May," Mr Ramadan, speaking under a pseudonym, said. "They were
   saying goodbye and were going on an operation to France."
   
    Likewise, in August, a Frenchman arrested on his return from Syria
   after a short stay in Raqqa mentioned instructions from Isil to target
   a concert hall.
   
    "Isil videos contained references to France within the past week and
   there is some suggestion that they were a signal to a possible cell
   already inside the country," one source said.
   
   
   
   Attackers may have graduated from Isil training camps
   
    Police said the attackers were "seasoned fighters by the looks of it
   and perfectly trained, with witnesses describing them as quite young
   and cool-headed".
   
    That would indicate a strong chance that at least some were among the
   thousands of European "foreign fighters" who have travelled to Syria
   and Iraq to fight. If so, they will have graduated from Isil's training
   camps, schooled by the group's leaders, many of them veterans of Saddam
   Hussein's Baathist army.
   
    The suicide bomb belts are suggestive of a separate bomb-maker still
   on the loose. Bomb-makers rarely take part in attacks, their skills
   considered too vital to lose.
   
    An estimated 520 French nationals are fighting in Syria and another
   250 have returned to France, officials said.
   
    The gunmen's bodies have been taken to Paris' institute of forensic
   medicine for DNA checks.
   
   Reporting by: Victoria Ward, Gordon Rayner, David Barrett, Patrick
   Sawer, Luke Heighton, Camilla Turner, Rory Mullholland, Matthew
   Holehouse, Greg Walton, David Chazan, Henry Samuel, Lexi Finnigan,
   Eleanor Steafel, Isabelle Fraser
   
   Friday 13th Paris attacks
    Times quoted refer to GMT
   
   20.20
   
   Spectators gather on the pitch of the Stade de France stadium. Photo:
   AFP
   
   the first explosion went off near the Stade de France, where president
   Francois Hollande was at a football match between France and Germany.
   One person was killed in the blast. The body of a terrorist was found
   at the scene wearing a suicide belt filled with shrapnel.
   
   20.25
   
   Service personnel working outside the restaurant. Photo: Reuters

   Shortly after the first explosion at the Stade de France, gunmen with
   Kalashnikovs launched an attack at Le Carillon bar and Le Petit
   Cambodge restaurant on Rue Bichat, in the city's 10th arrondissement,
   killing 15 people and injuring 10.
   
   20.30
   The attackers drove about 500 yards to the Casa Nostra pizzeria in Rue
   de la Fontaine au Roi and opened fire on diners on the terrace of the
   restaurant, killing at least five people and injuring eight.
   
   20.30
   Another explosion went off outside the Stade de France when a second
   suicide bomber blew himself up.
   
   20.35
   
   Forensic police search for evidences outside the La Belle Equipe cafe.
   Photo: Getty Images
   
   Militants launch an attack on La Belle Equipe in Rue de Charonne,
   spraying the terrace bar with bullets and killing 19 people in gunfire
   which witnesses say lasted "two, three minutes".
   
   20.50
   
   Wounded people are evacuated outside the Bataclan theatre. Photo: EPA
   
   Three black-clad gunmen wielding AK-47s and wearing suicide vests
   stormed Le Bataclan during a concert by American rock band Eagles Of
   Death Metal. At least 89 were killed and more than 100 others injured
   during the shooting. The attackers were heard mentioning Syria and Iraq
   during the massacre.
   
   20.53
   A third suicide bomber blew himself up on Rue de la Coquerie, near the
   Stade de France.
   
   21.00
   
   A woman is evacuated outside the Bataclan. Photo: AP
   
   The first reports came in of the Bataclan massacre and within 10
   minutes there was confirmation that a hostage crisis had developed at
   the theatre.
   
   21.57
   Prime Minister David Cameron said on Twitter: "I am shocked by events
   in Paris tonight. Our thoughts and prayers are with the French people.
   We will do whatever we can to help."
   
   22.00
   
   An emotional French president Francois Hollande, who was earlier
   evacuated from the Stade de France, closed the borders and declared a
   state of national emergency. The French military were called into the
   centre of Paris.
   
   22.16
   Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Twitter: "My thoughts are with
   the people of Paris tonight. We stand in solidarity with the French.
   Such acts are heinous and immoral."
   
   22.28
   
   Police officers gather outside the Bataclan concert venue in Paris.
   Photo: EPA
   
   French emergency services activate Plan Rouge to tackle the large
   numbers of casualties.
   
   22.30
   
   Wounded people are evacuated from the Stade de France. Photo: EPA
   
   Parisians used the #PorteOuverte hashtag to search for or offer safe
   places for those fleeing the violence. The hashtag was soon trending.
   
   22.43
   A new toll of at least 35 dead.
   
   22.46
   President Obama delivered a speech at the White House, expressing
   solidarity with the people of Paris and calling the attacks terrorist
   acts. "Those who think that they can terrorise the people of France or
   the values that they stand for are wrong."We are reminded in this time
   of tragedy that the bonds of liberte, egalite, fraternite, are not just
   the values French people share, but we share."Those go far beyond any
   act of terrorism or the hateful vision of those who perpetrated the
   crimes this evening."
   
   23.30
   Reports emerge of French taxi drivers turning off their meters and
   offering passengers free rides home. A citywide curfew was put in
   place, the first since 1944.
   
   23.30
   
   People receive medical attention after being evacuated from the
   Bataclan theatre. Photo: AP
   
   Police storm the Bataclan, ending the siege. Two terrorists die after
   activating their suicide vests and a third is shot dead by officers.
   
   Midnight
   The death toll reached at least 120.
   
   [ ... ]"

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Omar Ismail Mostefai
Turkey warned but failed to get an answer
http://www.beserhaber.com/dunya/omar-ismail-mostefai-icin-turkiye-uyardi-ancak-cevap-alamadi-h32582.html

   Turkey warns France twice about Omar Ismail Mostefai but was unable to
   get a response.
   Capture decisions for Omar Ismail Mostefai were taken
   From Turkey, Lebanon, leaving not able to escape.
   Tuesday November 17, 2015 09:12
   
   
   
   Omar Ismail Mostefa 'for Turkey warned France twice but could not get
   an answer. Get arrest Omar Ismail escaped from Turkey Mostefai not
   separated from Lebanon.
   
   The suicide bomber in Paris Omar Ismail Mostefa, entered Turkey in
   2013. Turkey, although France only response was to send a text twice
   after attack
   
   Turkey, France was warned twice but could not get answers
   
   NEWS CENTER
   
   The heart of Europe taking place simultaneously in Paris and after the
   terrorist attacks carried out seven as alarmed the French authorities'
   neglect the development of a disconnect there appeared to occur. One of
   the suicide bomber in Paris, a French citizen of Syrian descent Omar
   Ismail Mostefai was determined to enter Turkey in 2013. Turkey,
   information and if no answer twice.
   
   Viewed vehicle
   
   According to the information received nationality; French secret
   service reported that four people in the name of a specific writing
   sent to Turkey in 2014. Write the police to act with Turkey to reach
   safety under the spotlight admissions.
   
   In a retrospective review, they went to France by a Syrian suspected
   jihadist organizations to participate in four people from İpsala in
   pairs proved to enter Turkey. The suspects were identified as two
   separate car logged in August and September 2013. But in September 2013
   by entering discovered that 3 people found beside the two suspects in
   the car seat, 3rd wrote an official letter to France in October 2014,
   which claimed about Mostefai name.
   
   France does not respond positively to this request on June 2015. 2. In
   the same context, article has been sent. However, no response. Mostefai
   without intervening period on record output from Turkey 'restriction'
   procedure performed, aimed arrest during his travels abroad. Mostefai
   However, Turkey did not use to exit.
   
   He left Lebanon
   
   Night experiencing the action in Paris this time the French secret
   service, send text to Turkey between two people who had requested
   information about Mostefai also found. Developments in the response
   sent from Turkey by aligning article was previously reported as
   unresponsive France. After the work of the intelligence agencies,
   Mostefai, Jordan and Lebanon was assessed using the route he left Syria.

   "

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Homegrown suicide bomber is identified after his FINGER was
found among the Bataclan concert hall carnage: Father-of-one, 29,
was radicalised by Belgian hate preacher at mosque in France
* Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, was one of the three men who blew
   themselves up at the Eagles of Death Metal concert
* The father-of-one was born in the Paris suburb of Courcouronnes and
   has eight past convictions for petty crimes
* Mostefai, who had a young daughter, said to have been radicalised by
   a Belgian hate preacher at mosque in France
* He was picked out as a high-priority target for radicalisation in
   2010 but had 'never been implicated' in terrorist links
* Investigators are probing claim that he spent several months in
   Syria in late 2013 and early 2014, possibly with ISIS
* Twitter account, believed to be Mostefai's, suggests he was
   Barcelona fan whose favourite player was Lionel Messi
* Mostefai's father and brother were arrested last night and have been
   questioned alongside other family members
* See more of the latest news and updates on the Paris terrorist attacks

By Peter Allen In Paris for MailOnline and Ian Gallagher and Martin
Beckford for The Mail on Sunday and Darren Boyle and Sam Tonkin and
Nick Fagge In Paris For Mailonline
Published: 07:10 GMT, 15 November 2015  | Updated: 02:51 GMT, 16 November 2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3319127/First-Jihadi-suicide-bomber-Paris-terrorist-attacks-identified-finger.html

  "The first Jihadi suicide bomber named in connection with the Paris
   terrorist attacks that left at least 129 people dead is homegrown
   terrorist Omar Ismaël Mostefai, who was identified by his finger.
   
   The digit was found among the carnage of the Bataclan concert hall,
   where the 29-year-old father-of-one was one of three men who blew
   themselves up, killing 89 men, women and children.
   
   French citizen Mostefai, who has a large number of convictions for
   petty crime but not extremist activity, is said to have a young
   daughter - believed to be around five years old - who former neighbours
   accused him of 'abandoning'. One said when they knew him he appeared a
   'charming, a great guy'.
   
   Investigators are now looking into claims that Mostefai spent several
   months in Syria in late 2013 and early 2014, possibly with IS
   terrorists. It is thought he was radicalised by a Belgian hate preacher
   of Moroccan descent said to have regularly preached at his mosque in
   Luce, south of Paris.
   
   French officials identified Mostefai as one of the Paris terror
   attackers as seven people were detained in Belgium linked to the
   atrocities. A Twitter account, thought to belong to Mostefai, suggests
   he was a Barcelona fan whose favourite footballer was Lionel Messi.
   
   Scroll down for videos
   
   
   First suicide bomber named: French fire brigade members aid an injured
   individual near the Bataclan concert hall, where a finger of Jihadi
   suicide bomber Omar Ismaël Mostefai was found among the carnage
   following the horrifying terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night
   
   
   Father-of-one Mostefai, 29, was one of three men who blew themselves up
   at the concert hall, killing 89 men, women and children
   
   
  A fireman administers first aid to one of the concert-goers caught up
   in the shooting inside the Bataclan concert hall
   
   


  In shock: Eric Pudal (left), the next door neighbour of one of the
   brothers of suicide bomber Omar Ismaël Mostefai, said he was shocked
   when armed police arrested the 34-year-old and Mostefai's father.
   Pictured right is the home that Mostefai lived with his family in
   Chartres until about two years ago
   
   

   Drummer ducks for cover as shots fired inside Bataclan Theatre
   
   Survivors have claimed that a woman was among the group shooting
   randomly into the crowd at the Eagles of Death Metal gig before three
   blew themselves up and a fourth person was shot dead by police before
   they could detonate their bomb.
   
   The overall death toll of the Paris attacks stood at 129 on Sunday
   evening. It followed a night of bloodshed which saw eight terrorists,
   including one as young as 15, attack the Stade de France, restaurants
   and the packed Bataclan concert hall armed with AK-47s, grenades and
   wearing suicide vests.
   
   More than 350 were injured - 99 of which are in a critical condition -
   and 30 of the dead have not yet been identified.
   
   Serbian media claimed that Ahmed Almuhamed, 25, whose Syrian passport
   was found on the body of a suicide bomber, was also part of the
   eight-strong ISIS kamikaze terror squad.
   
   It was alleged that he had sneaked into France by posing as a refugee
   after being rescued from a sinking migrant boat.
   
   However, the French minister of justice Christiane Taubira said on
   Sunday that the passport was a fake.
   
   Meanwhile, French police are hunting 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, from
   Brussels, who is accused of renting a Volkswagen Polo used by the
   suicide bombers.
   
   It emerged on Sunday night that French detectives questioned Abdeslam
   as he crossed the Belgian border and let him go after he showed them
   his ID card.
   
   Detectives soon realised heir blunder when they discovered that
   Abdeslam had rented a hire car abandoned near the scene of the massacre
   inside the Bataclan theatre. However, by the time they alerted Belgian
   authorities, the jihadi had abandoned the car in the jihadi stronghold
   of Molenbeek, Brussels and disappeared.
   
   His brother Ibrahim is believed to have blown himself up during the
   siege and a third sibling, Mohamed, has been arrested in the Belgian
   capital.
   
   An official told the Washington Post another of the shooters was Bilal
   Hadfi, who was from Belgium and had spent time fighting with ISIS in
   Syria. He died along with Mostefai after detonating his suicide vest
   during a murderous rampage.
   
   Born on 21 November 1985, in the Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, a
   working class district in the south-west of the French capital,
   Mostefai's criminal record shows eight convictions for petty crimes
   between 2004 and 2010.
   
   Although he had never spent any time in jail, Paris prosecutor Francois
   Molins said Mostefai had been picked out as a high-priority target for
   radicalisation in 2010.
   
   But before Friday, Mostefai had 'never been implicated in an
   investigation or a terrorist association'.
   
   MailOnline has learned he was born to an Algerian father and Portuguese
   mother in a down at heel Paris suburb.
   
   Mostefai's father and 34-year-old brother were arrested on Saturday
   night and their homes were searched. They and other family members are
   now being questioned by police.
   
   Eric Pudal, who lives next door to Mostefai's brother in the town of
   Bondoufle, on the outskirts of Paris, said around 20 heavily armed
   police swooped in on the home Saturday evening. Mr Pudal said he was
   shocked by the arrest, describing the family as 'very nice, very
   sociable.'
   
   Before he was taken into custody Mostefai's brother told French news
   agency AFP: 'It's a crazy thing, it's madness. Yesterday I was in Paris
   and I saw how this s*** went down.'
   
   The brother, one of four boys in the family along with two sisters,
   turned himself in to police after learning Mostefai was involved in the
   attacks.
   
   While he had cut ties with Mostefai several years ago, and knew he had
   been involved in petty crimes, his brother said he had never imagined
   his brother could be radicalised.
   
   The last he knew, Mostefai had gone to Algeria with his family and his
   'little girl', the brother said, adding: 'It's been a time since I have
   had any news.I called my mother, she didn't seem to know anything.'
   
   

   French special forces storm Bataclan to free hostages
   
   
   Place of worship: Mostefai is said to have regularly attended the
   mosque in Luce, close to Chartres, south-west of Paris, pictured today
   with president Abdallah Benali and vice president Karim Benay. It is
   here some say he was radicalised by a Belgian hate preacher
   
   
   A source close to the inquiry said Mostefai regularly attended the
   mosque in Luce, close to Chartres, to the southwest of Paris. Vice
   president of the association Generation 2000 Mosque Karim Benaya
   (second left) and president Abdallah Benali (middle) spoke at a press
   conference on Sunday
   
   
   Mr Benali (left) said he did not know Mostefai and that the mosque
   respected the law and had always worked with all authorities. Pictured
   right is Moroccan imam Ibrahim Elghoul
   
   
   Home: A view of the house where Omar Ismael Mostefai, one of the
   suicide bombers who took part in the attack on the Bataclan theatre,
   lived two years ago
   
   
   
  PARIS MASSACRE: WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR ABOUT THE DEADLIEST TERROR ATTACK
   TO HIT EUROPE IN A DECADE
   
   At least 129 people are dead, and another 352 injured, after three
   teams of jihadis struck the Stade de France football stadium, a handful
   of bars and cafes, and then finally the Bataclan concert hall.
   
   FIRST TWO ATTACKS: STADE DE FRANCE
    * The attacks began at 8.17pm GMT at the Stade de France where the French
       football team was hosting Germany in an international friendly.
    * The game was being watched by 80,000 spectators, among them was
      President Francois Hollande who had to be evacuated from the stadium.
    * The first explosion, a suicide bombing, was at an entrance to the
      stadium. A suicide bomber approached the gate with a match ticket when
      he was frisked by a security guard who turned him away.
    * He backed away from the gate and detonated his vest at about 8.20pm GMT
      near Gate D of the stadium, killing one other person. A passport with
      the name Ahmed Almuhamed, 25, from Syria, was allegedly found nearby.
    * A second suicide bomber, Bilal Hadfi, 20, blew himself up near Gate H
      several minutes later. No one else was reported killed. Hadfi is said
      to have fought with ISIS in Syria.
     
   THIRD ATTACK: LE PETIT CAMBODGE AND LE CARILLON BAR
    * At 8.25pm GMT a separate team of gunmen arrived in a Black Seat and
      attacked diners at popular Cambodian restaurant Le Petit Cambodge and
      Le Carillon bar in the trendy Canal Saint-Martin area of eastern Paris,
      killing 15.
   
      
   Timeline of events: Eight bombers carried out the devastating attacks
   on Friday night, leaving 129 people dead and another 352 injured
   
   
   FOURTH ATTACK: LA CASA NOSTRA PIZZERIA AND LA BELLE EQUIPE BAR
    * The same unit then drove about 500 yards to La Casa Nostra pizzeria and
      opened fire on diners on the terrace of the restaurant, killing at
      least five people.
    * From there, the militants drove around a mile south-east – apparently
      past the area of the Bataclan concert venue – to launch another attack,
      this time on La Belle Equipe bar in Rue de Charonne. At least 19 people
      died after the terrace was sprayed with bullets at 8.38pm GMT. The
      attackers then drove off.
   
   FIFTH ATTACK: CAFÉ 'COMPTOIR VOLTAIRE'
    * Five minutes later, Ibrahim Abdeslam, 31, set off a suicide vest
      outside the outside cafe 'Comptoir Voltaire' on the Boulevard Voltaire
      and close to the Bataclan theatre. He hired a black Seat car used in
      the attack.
   
   SIXTH ATTACK: BATACLAN MUSIC HALL
    * At 8.49pm GMT, the third group (believed to be three men and a woman)
      armed with AK-47s stormed the Bataclan music hall and began shooting
      members of the crowd. Survivors claim three blew themselves up and a
      fourth person was shot dead by police before they could detonate their
      bomb.
   
   SEVENTH ATTACK: NEAR STADE DE FRANCE
    * At around 8.50pm GMT a third blast took place near the Stade de France,
      this time by a McDonald's restaurant on the fringes of the stadium. The
      boom caused terror among spectators who had already been attempting to
      flee the stadium following the first two explosions. The attacker who
      detonated his suicide vest was identified as a 20-year-old French man
      living in Belgium.
   
   
   Tearful members of the public view flowers and tributes on the pavement
   near the scene of the concert hall massacre on Friday
   
   
   
  AFTERMATH:
    * On Saturday morning, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks across
      Paris, saying 'eight brothers wearing explosive belts and carrying
      assault rifles' conducted a 'blessed attack on... Crusader France'.
    * On Saturday afternoon, three people travelling in a grey VW Polo were
      arrested at the French/Belgian border when police traced the car after
      it was sighted outside the Bataclan theatre at the time of the attacks.
    * One of the Stade de France suspects was found carrying a Syrian
      passport under the name Ahmed Almuhamed who travelled to France as a
      migrant through Greece on October 3. Ferry tickets reveal he travelled
      with another man named as Mohammed Almuhamed.
    * However, the French minister of justice Christiane Taubira said on
      Sunday that the passport under the name Ahmed Almuhamed was a fake.
    * Omar Ismaël Mostefai, 29, from Courcouronnes, Paris was also named as a
      Bataclan suicide bomber. The petty criminal and father-of-one was known
      to police as a radical and had travelled to Algeria and Syria. He was
      identified by the fingerprint on a severed digit found after he
      detonated his suicide belt.
    * Mostefai is believed to have been radicalised by a Belgian hate
      preacher of Moroccan descent claimed to have regularly preached at his
      mosque in South West France. His father, a brother and other family
      members have been held and are being questioned.
    * The black Seat Leon used by the terrorists who murdered diners outside
      the Casa Nostra pizza restaurant and the La Belle Équipe cafe was found
      abandoned 20 minutes away in Montreuil with a cache of weapons inside.
    * Seven people were detained in Belgium linked to the atrocities - three
      at the border and four in Brussels. Five are from the Molenbeek area of
      Brussels known as a 'den of terrorists'.
    * Iraqi spies warned the West of an ISIS suicide bomber threat the day
      before the Paris atrocities, it was revealed on Sunday, as more details
      of major intelligence failures began to emerge. The US-led coalition in
      Syria was apparently told by Iraqi security sources that 24 extremists
      were involved in the terror operation planned in the ISIS capital Raqqa
      and it would involve 19 attackers including five others including
      bombmakers and planners. No detail was given of when or where an attack
      might take place.
    * It has also emerged that Turkey's authorities foiled a plot to stage a
      'Jihadi John revenge attack' in Istanbul - involving a high-profile
      British jihadist - on the same day as the deadly massacre in Paris.
    * From as far back as August, France's authorities possessed information
      that militants were said to be planning attacks on French concert halls
      after a tip-off was received from a 30-year-old man who was detained on
      his way back from Syria.
    * On Sunday night there were 42 people still said to be in intensive care
      in hospital following Friday's terrorist attacks.
   
   LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:
    * French police are still hunting for three gunmen on the run, including
      Brussels-born Frenchman Salah Abdeslam, and an ISIS bombmaker likely to
      have made the suicide vests.
    * An international arrest warrant has been issued for Abdeslam, 26, who
      is accused of renting a Volkswagen Polo used by the suicide bombers. He
      is one of three brothers believed to be at the heart of the
      eight-strong ISIS cell.
    * It emerged on Sunday night that police found Abdeslam near the Belgian
      border early Saturday but let him go after he showed them his ID card.
      Officers pulled over the car being driven by Abdelslam on Saturday
      morning on the A2 motorway between Paris and Brussels. Two other men
      were also in the Seat car. At the time, officers in Paris knew that
      Abdeslam had rented the car used by the killers which had been
      abandoned near the theatre but the information had not been transmitted
      to those responsible for conducting the border checks.
    * His brother Ibrahim, 31, blew himself up in a solo attack outside cafe
      Comptoir Voltaire after renting a black Seat found abandoned today
      filled with AK-47s and ammunition. A third sibling, named as Mohamed
      Abdeslam, has been arrested in the Belgian capital.
    * On Sunday evening the French defence ministry announced that the
      country's warplanes had bombed Islamic State's stronghold in Syria's
      Raqa, destroying a command post and a training camp, the defence
      ministry said. Ten fighter jets were involved, dropping 20 bombs.
   
   
   A source close to the inquiry said Mostefai regularly attended the
   mosque in Luce, close to Chartres, to the southwest of Paris. However,
   at a press conference on Sunday the president of the association
   Generation 2000, Abdallah Benali, said he did not know Mostefai. He
   added that the mosque respected the law and had always worked with all
   authorities.
   
   MailOnline has also learned that the mixed-race family struggled
   financially with only the father Mustafa Mostefai's meagre salary as a
   lorry driver to support them.
   
   When Mostefai was in his teens the family moved to a small house in a
   sprawling social housing development on the outskirts of Chartres, a
   historic and picturesque town some 50 miles west of Paris.
   
   Described as charming and well mannered, Mostefai was a regular
   attendant at the Anoussara mosque. However the family left the town
   three years ago, with his father and at least one brother returning to
   Paris.
   
   Mostefai told friends he was going to live in Algeria with his
   newly-married wife and their baby daughter. He had appeared happily
   married and former friends and acquaintances today told of their shock
   that he could abandon his family by becoming a suicide bomber.
   
   One friend, Hamza, told MailOnline: 'He said he loved his wife and
   daughter but how could he abandon them and blow himself up.
   
   'I have not seen him for years but when he lived here he was really
   charming, a great guy.'
   
   Neighbors described Mostefai as 'good looking'.
   
   One said: 'He had blue eyes and light brown hair because of his mother,
   he was really good looking.
   
   'They were a nice family but I haven't seen them for years.'
   
   Other people who knew Mostefai spoke of their disbelief that someone
   they recalled as shy and considerate could have been involved in the
   deadly Paris attacks.
   
   Ben Bammou, president of a local Muslim group, said Mostefai regularly
   attended mosque in the area and used to work as a baker. But he
   described the 29-year-old as 'timid' and said that the Muslim community
   of Chartres didn't understand what happened.
   
   He said: 'We're grieving, like everyone else.'
   
   A woman who answered the door at the suicide bomber's former address, a
   two-story building in the city of Chartres, said she didn't know him.
   
   

   Terror attack victims flee the Bataclan theatre in Paris
   
   
   Rescue workers help a woman outside the Bataclan theatre in Paris where
   American band Eagles of Death Metal had been performing
   
   
  Belgian authorities arrested several suspects on Saturday after a car
   seen near one of the murder scenes was intercepted at the border
   
   
   A woman is evacuated from the scene of the massacre, where witnesses
   said gunmen threatened to kill anyone who moved
   
   
   Belgian anti-terror police launched a series of raids after three
   suspects were arrested returning from France
   
   Meanwhile, neighbour Arnauld Froissart, a 34-year-old bank employee,
   said Mostefai and his family were 'very nice' and that his mother
   offered cakes to neighbours during Ramadan.
   
   He said: 'Everyone was shocked when we learned this last night and this
   morning. I've lived in this neighborhood since 1986 and there's no
   problem here.'
   
   A Twitter account, believed to be Mostefai's, suggests he was a
   Barcelona fan whose favourite footballer was four-time FIFA world
   player of the year Lionel Messi.
   
   In one tweet, dated February 23 2012, he wrote: 'Messi received the
   award for best player in the world Golden Ball.'
   
   Another reads: 'The one who surrenders himself to God and beseeches him
   humility, surrenders his power, and energy and knows he can't do
   anything without his god, knocks on the door of victory.'
   
   He also tweeted on September 17 2012: 'Muslim and proud, but... Islam
   does not encourage barbarianism, nor intolerance, but today we are
   showing our weakness to the enemies of religion.'
   
   Almost a year later, on July 21 2013, one tweet read: 'Don't let the
   envy in your heart prevent you from having peace of mind. Forgive the
   one who did a bad deed to you and don't harm them, embrace the good in
   your heart and pray for them, for we are all going to die.'
   
   Two of the suicide bombers who caused carnage in the Paris massacre are
   thought to have sneaked into France by posing as refugees from Syria,
   it was revealed Saturday.
   
   Police said the two men, who arrived in Greece last month, were among
   seven attackers, one as young as 15.
   
   Serbian media last night reported that one of the terrorists was named
   as Ahmed Almuhamed. The newspaper Blic said that 25-year-old Almuhamed
   arrived with another of the bombers in Europe on the Greek island of
   Leros on October 3 on his way to Paris.
   
   Greek website Protothema have published ferry tickets showing the name
   of a second man, Mohammed Almuhamed, who could be a relation.
   
   Belgian authorities also arrested several suspects on Saturday after a
   car seen near one of the murder scenes was intercepted crossing the
   border.
   
   Federal prosecutors in Brussels confirmed that a car with Belgian
   number plates had been seen close to the Bataclan theatre on Friday
   night, scene of the worst bloodshed.
   
   

   Bandmate's girlfriend at Bataclan may have filmed killer
   
   
   Officers searched the Molenbeek area of Brussels, home to a large
   Turkish and Moroccan community
   
   
   Border checks were reintroduced last night as authorities tried to find
   the remainder of the terror cell
   
   
   One of the terrorists left Syria and was processed on the island of
   Leros after crossing form Turkey on October 3 before making his way to
   France and the Stade de France
   
   

   Photographer captures gunfight outside Bataclan in Paris
   
   Spokesman Jean-Pascal Thoreau confirmed that the car was a rental
   vehicle. He said that three people were arrested in the car.
   
   Following the arrests, police launched several raids in the St Jans
   Molenbeek neighbourhood of Brussels, where several other arrests were
   made.
   
   Molenbeek is home to a large community of immigrants from Morocco and
   Turkey.
   
   A Belgian anti-terrorism judge took up the case because two of the
   people killed in Paris were Belgians, the office said in a statement.
   
   A spokesman said: 'The investigation is opened into a charge of
   terrorism and participation in the activities of a terrorist group.
   
   'Several arrests were carried out at the end of the afternoon. The
   operations are still underway in the Molenbeek neighbourhood.'
   
   It has emerged that one of the terrorists arrived on the Greek Island
   of Leros on October 3, in a small boat among a group of 69 refugees who
   arrived from Turkey.
   
   Investigators believe that the man travelled through Greece, into
   Macedonia before making his way northwards.
   
   According to Greece's deputy minister in charge of police Nikos Toskas:
   'The holder of the passport passed through the island of Leros on
   October 3, 2015, where he was identified according to EU rules.'
   
   A Greek police source said the passport's owner was a young man who had
   arrived in Leros on a small vessel from Turkey with a group of 69
   refugees and had his fingerprints taken by Greek officials.
   
   Two further suspects wanted by French authorities are believed to have
   registered as refugees in Greece earlier this year
   
   French authorities had asked their Greek counterparts to check a
   passport and fingerprints of one man and the fingerprints of another
   who were thought to have registered in Greece, which is the main entry
   point into Europe for Syrian refugees.
   
   At least one Syrian passport was found near the body of one of the
   seven assailants who died in Friday night's violence.
   
   Interpol has confirmed it has set up a 'crisis response task force' at
   its headquarters in southeastern France following deadly attacks in
   Paris.
   
   Interpol Secretary-General Juergen Stock condemned the 'cold-blooded,
   cowardly attacks' that left at least 129 people dead Friday night.
   
   

   Suspect Volkswagen Polo being towed away from the Bataclan
   
   
   A woman is comforted as she breaks down outside the Carillon cafe and
   the Petit Cambodge restaurant where victims were gunned down
   
   
   Survivors began tending to those who had been injured during Friday's
   atrocity despite the fear of further terrorist attacks
   
   
   Dead and wounded people lie on the pavement outside the Cafe Bonne
   Biere in Paris following a series of coordinated attacks on Friday
   
   
   A wounded man is helped by a passer-by as he lies outside a cafe
   following the attack, which saw a gunman open fire on the crowd
   [ ... ]"