ISIS isn’t just a sprawling paramilitary terrorist organization, it’s also a media company, with digital and print publications reaching a global audience. Its flagship publication is Dabiq, the Vogue of global jihad. In its February 2015 issue, the chief suspect in the recent assault on Paris sat down for an…
Earlier today, the Washington Post reported that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian national believed to have masterminded the terror attacks in Paris last week was killed in a police raid this morning. The New York Times and the Associated Press, however, report that French authorities are still unsure.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian national who intelligence officials believe to be the ringleader of ISIS attacks in Paris that killed 132 people, died in a raid early this morning, reports the Washington Post, citing “two senior European intelligence officials.”
French authorities say this morning’s raid on a Suburban Paris apartment came just in time to prevent “some kind of operation” the suspects were planning.
When police attempted to storm an apartment in the northern Paris suburb of St Denis early Wednesday morning, a woman wearing an explosive suicide vest detonated her device, the Associated Press reports, killing herself and another man. Seven other people were arrested.
According to multiple reports, French police have begun searching for a second suspect in the Paris terror attacks that left 129 people dead last week.
