Such much death in Paris Its heart wrenching
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Ahoy.........So Sad and Why?
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Paris in LOCKDOWN, curfew issued
- At least 100 killed inside concert hall
- Reports of 'suicide attacks'
- Two gunmen believed killed by police
- Six terror attacks in total
At least 100 people died in a popular Paris concert hall where attackers seized hostages Friday, an official said, one of at least six terror attacks that unfolded across the city in the deadliest violence Paris has seen since World War II.
French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced that he was closing the country's borders. The violence spread fear through the city and exceeded the horrors of the Charlie Hebdo carnage just 10 months ago.
Paris police officials said security officials had launched an assault on the concert hall, killing at least two attackers. One described "carnage" inside the building, saying the attackers tossed explosives at the hostages.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/30093213/fatalities-reported-in-paris-restaurant-shooting/
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Paris in LOCKDOWN, curfew issued
- At least 100 killed inside concert hall
- Reports of 'suicide attacks'
- Two gunmen believed killed by police
- Six terror attacks in total
At least 100 people died in a popular Paris concert hall where attackers seized hostages Friday, an official said, one of at least six terror attacks that unfolded across the city in the deadliest violence Paris has seen since World War II.
French President Francois Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced that he was closing the country's borders. The violence spread fear through the city and exceeded the horrors of the Charlie Hebdo carnage just 10 months ago.
Paris police officials said security officials had launched an assault on the concert hall, killing at least two attackers. One described "carnage" inside the building, saying the attackers tossed explosives at the hostages.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/30093213/fatalities-reported-in-paris-restaurant-shooting/
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Much worse, I'm afraid:
Paris 'bloodbath' kills at least 160
Updated: 12:45 pm, Saturday, 14 November 2015
More than 120 people have been killed in a mass hostage-taking at a Paris concert hall, while another 40 are feared dead, after a series of bombings and shootings across the French capital.
Police say around 120 people were killed at the Bataclan music venue in eastern Paris alone, with reports the armed attackers shot dead concert-goers one by one before security forces stormed the building.
One witness said an attacker had earlier yelled 'Allahu akbar' ('God is great') and fired into the crowd at the concert given by US rock band Eagles of Death Metal.
Police are believed to have killed at least two alleged jihadists when they stormed the building.
It was one of a series of attacks at seven locations across Paris in an unprecedented night of carnage, in a city that is still recovering from jihadist attacks in January.
At least five assailants in total are believed to have been killed across the capital.
The Bataclan lies just 200 metres from the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine, which was one of the targets of those attacks.
In addition to the carnage at the concert hall, at least five people were also killed in three explosions near the Stade de France national stadium, were France was playing Germany in an international football match.
One of the explosions was caused by a suicide bomber, witnesses said.
President Francois Hollande was attending the match and had to be hastily evacuated.
A Cambodian restaurant near the concert hall was also attacked, with further deaths reported.
'Terrorist attacks of an unprecedented level are under way across the Paris region,' Hollande said in an emotional televised message.
'It's a horror,' he said.
Hollande declared a state of emergency across the entire country and cancelled his trip to the G20 summit which was due to take place in Turkey at the weekend.
An additional 1500 soldiers have been deployed to Paris, the presidency said.
The focus of the attacks was the Bataclan. Armed police eventually stormed the venue just before midnight, accompanied by a series of explosions.
'I saw 20 to 25 bodies lying on the floor and people were very badly injured, gunshot wounds,' Julien Pierce, a witness at the Bataclan, told Europe 1 radio.
'Some of them were dead. Some of them were very badly wounded, but it was a bloodbath.'
At the Stade de France, spectators flooded the pitch as news of the attacks spread before organisers started an evacuation.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, called for residents to stay at home.
'We heard gunfire, 30 seconds of fire, it was interminable, we thought it was fireworks,' said Pierre Montfort, who lives near the Cambodian restaurant.
'Everyone was on the floor, no one moved,' said another eyewitness, who had been at the Petit Cambodge restaurant.
'A girl was carried by a young man in his arms. She appeared to be dead.'
The toll 'will be much heavier' than the initial confirmed deaths, a security source said.
Camille, 25, said: 'My sister is in the Bataclan. I phoned her. She said they opened fire. And then she hung up.'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Union chief Jean-Claude Juncker said they were 'deeply shocked' by the attacks.
France has been on high alert since the attacks in January against Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket that left 17 dead.
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In terms of scale and methodology, this appears to be France/Europe's equivalent of the Mumbai attacks almost seven years ago, when 166 people were murdered by 10 terrorists.
Paris 'bloodbath' kills at least 160
Updated: 12:45 pm, Saturday, 14 November 2015
More than 120 people have been killed in a mass hostage-taking at a Paris concert hall, while another 40 are feared dead, after a series of bombings and shootings across the French capital.
Police say around 120 people were killed at the Bataclan music venue in eastern Paris alone, with reports the armed attackers shot dead concert-goers one by one before security forces stormed the building.
One witness said an attacker had earlier yelled 'Allahu akbar' ('God is great') and fired into the crowd at the concert given by US rock band Eagles of Death Metal.
Police are believed to have killed at least two alleged jihadists when they stormed the building.
It was one of a series of attacks at seven locations across Paris in an unprecedented night of carnage, in a city that is still recovering from jihadist attacks in January.
At least five assailants in total are believed to have been killed across the capital.
The Bataclan lies just 200 metres from the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine, which was one of the targets of those attacks.
In addition to the carnage at the concert hall, at least five people were also killed in three explosions near the Stade de France national stadium, were France was playing Germany in an international football match.
One of the explosions was caused by a suicide bomber, witnesses said.
President Francois Hollande was attending the match and had to be hastily evacuated.
A Cambodian restaurant near the concert hall was also attacked, with further deaths reported.
'Terrorist attacks of an unprecedented level are under way across the Paris region,' Hollande said in an emotional televised message.
'It's a horror,' he said.
Hollande declared a state of emergency across the entire country and cancelled his trip to the G20 summit which was due to take place in Turkey at the weekend.
An additional 1500 soldiers have been deployed to Paris, the presidency said.
The focus of the attacks was the Bataclan. Armed police eventually stormed the venue just before midnight, accompanied by a series of explosions.
'I saw 20 to 25 bodies lying on the floor and people were very badly injured, gunshot wounds,' Julien Pierce, a witness at the Bataclan, told Europe 1 radio.
'Some of them were dead. Some of them were very badly wounded, but it was a bloodbath.'
At the Stade de France, spectators flooded the pitch as news of the attacks spread before organisers started an evacuation.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, called for residents to stay at home.
'We heard gunfire, 30 seconds of fire, it was interminable, we thought it was fireworks,' said Pierre Montfort, who lives near the Cambodian restaurant.
'Everyone was on the floor, no one moved,' said another eyewitness, who had been at the Petit Cambodge restaurant.
'A girl was carried by a young man in his arms. She appeared to be dead.'
The toll 'will be much heavier' than the initial confirmed deaths, a security source said.
Camille, 25, said: 'My sister is in the Bataclan. I phoned her. She said they opened fire. And then she hung up.'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and European Union chief Jean-Claude Juncker said they were 'deeply shocked' by the attacks.
France has been on high alert since the attacks in January against Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket that left 17 dead.
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In terms of scale and methodology, this appears to be France/Europe's equivalent of the Mumbai attacks almost seven years ago, when 166 people were murdered by 10 terrorists.
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Absolutely devastating, for those involved and for the rest of the world. This will cause more unrest, fear and retaliation
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I have not seen a newspaper or TV for weeks so had missed this story, and feel bad for doing so. I will say a prayer for the families of the victims.
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Seven terror attacks at six sites across Paris
- Attacks on restaurants, bars, a concert hall and a football stadium
- At least 160 dead
- Five attackers killed across various locations
- Islamic State claimed responsibility
At least 160 people have been killed in a series of attacks on busy restaurants, bars, a concert hall and the national football stadium in Paris.
French police say they believe all of the attackers involved shootings and bombings in Paris are dead.
French President Francois Hollande has closed the borders to the country.
- Seven terror attacks at six sites across Paris
- Attacks on restaurants, bars, a concert hall and a football stadium
- At least 160 dead
- Five attackers killed across various locations
- Islamic State claimed responsibility
At least 160 people have been killed in a series of attacks on busy restaurants, bars, a concert hall and the national football stadium in Paris.
French police say they believe all of the attackers involved shootings and bombings in Paris are dead.
French President Francois Hollande has closed the borders to the country.
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Only cowards use violence...real men use brains and words.
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What did the victims do to deserve this? All these religious mambo jumbos, propaganda, brainwashing BS...these cow dung followers, should question their leaders, what is the purpose of all these violence?
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What did the victims do to deserve this? All these religious mambo jumbos, propaganda, brainwashing BS...these cow dung followers, should question their leaders, what is the purpose of all these violence?
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/3009853...ris-as-the-world-mourns-those-killed/?cmp=yfb
Three teams of extremists carried out the coordinated gun-and-suicide bombing attacks across Paris that left 129 people dead and 352 injured, a French prosecutor said Saturday.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said 99 of the injured were in critical condition after the "act of barbarism." He said the attackers in the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people died, mentioned Syria and Iraq during their deadly rampage.
French President Francois Hollande has vowed that France will wage "merciless" war on the Islamic State group, after the jihadists claimed responsibility for the attacks Friday night.
Grief, alarm and resolve spread across Europe on Saturday as officials raced to piece together information on the seven attackers. Officials said one was a young Frenchman known to the authorities. In addition, a Syrian passport found near the body of another attacker was linked to a man who entered the European Union through a Greek island last month.
Attackers launched gun attacks at Paris cafes, detonated suicide bombs near France's national stadium and killed hostages inside a concert hall during a rock show — an attack on the heart of the pulsing City of Light.
"These places are the places we visit every week," said Ahsan Naeem, a 39-year-old filmmaker who has lived in Paris for seven years.
"Streets we walk every day ... All those places will have been full of my people. My friends. My acquaintances.”
Hollande, who declared three days of national mourning and raised the nation's security to its highest level, called the carnage "an act of war that was prepared, organized, planned from abroad with internal help."
The president said France would increase its military efforts to crush IS.
He said France — which is part of a U.S.-led coalition bombing suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq and also has troops fighting militants in Africa — "will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group."
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility in an online statement in Arabic and French circulated by supporters. It was not immediately possible to confirm the authenticity of the admission, which bore the group's logo and resembled previous verified statements from the group.
The statement mocked France's involvement in air attacks on suspected IS bases in Syria and Iraq, noting that France's air power was "of no use to them in the streets and rotten alleys of Paris."
Many of Paris's top tourist attractions closed down Saturday, including the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum and the Disneyland theme park east of the capital. Some 3,000 troops were deployed to help restore order and reassure a frightened populace.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced that all public demonstrations would be banned until Thursday and local governments would have the option to impose nightly curfews.
The attacks, on an unusually balmy November Friday evening, struck at the heart of Parisian life: diners in cafes, concertgoers watching a rock band, spectators at a soccer match.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said the places attacked are ones Parisians love — and ones where they celebrate diversity.
"It is this Paris that was hit. Probably because this example of living together, which is so strong in our city, is unbearable for fanatical people," she said.
Parisians expressed shock, disgust and defiance in equal measure. Some areas were quiet, but hundreds queued outside a hospital near the Bataclan concert hall to donate blood. As a shrine of flowers expanded along the sidewalk, a lone guitarist sang John Lennon's peace ballad "Imagine."
Authorities said eight attackers died, seven in suicide bombings, a new terror tactic in France. Police said they shot and killed the other assailant.
Molins, the prosecutor, said all the suicide attackers wore identical explosives vests.
Authorities in Belgium conducted raids in a Brussels neighborhood Saturday and made three arrests linked to the Paris attacks. Justice Minister Koen Geens told the VRT network that the arrests came after a car with Belgian license plates was seen close to the Bataclan theater.
Officials in Greece said the Syrian passport found in Paris had shown its owner entering in October through Leros, one of the islands that tens of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in Syria and elsewhere have been using as a gateway into the European Union.
If the attack does involve militants who traveled to Europe amid millions of refugees from the Middle East, the implications could be profound.
Poland's prospective minister for European affairs, Konrad Szymanski, said that in light of the attacks, Poland would not comply with an EU plan to accept refugees unless it received "guarantees of security."
The attack brought an immediate tightening of borders as Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced renewed border checks. Germany also stepped up border checks.
The militants launched six gun and bomb attacks in rapid succession on apparently indiscriminate civilian targets.
Three suicide bombs targeted spots around the national Stade de France stadium, in the north of the capital, where Hollande was watching a France-Germany soccer match. Fans inside the stadium recoiled at the sound of explosions, but the match continued.
Around the same time, fusillades of bullets shattered the clinking of wine glasses in a trendy Paris neighborhood as gunmen targeted a string of crowded cafes.
The attackers next stormed the Bataclan concert hall, which was hosting the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal. They opened fire on the panicked audience and took members hostage. As police closed in, three detonated explosive belts, killing themselves, according to Paris police chief Michel Cadot.
Another attacker detonated a suicide bomb on Boulevard Voltaire, near the music hall, the prosecutor's office said.
Video shot posted by newspaper Le Monde Saturday captured some of that horror as dozens of people fled from gunfire outside the Bataclan.
At least one person lies writhing on the ground as scores more stream past, some bloodied or limping. The camera pans down the street to reveal more fleeing people dragging two bodies along the ground. A woman and two others can be seen clinging to upper-floor balcony railings in an desperate bid to stay out of the line of fire.
Le Monde said its reporter Daniel Psenney filed the scene from his apartment balcony, and was shot in the arm when he went downstairs to help someone who had collapsed.
A tall, sturdy 38-year-old concert-goer named Sylvain collapsed in tears as he recounted the attack, the chaos and his escape during a lull in gunfire.
"First I heard explosions, and I thought it was firecrackers," he said.
"Very soon I smelled powder, and I understood what was happening. There were shots everywhere, in waves. I lay down on the floor. I saw at least two shooters, but I heard others talk. They cried, 'It's Hollande's fault.' I heard one of the shooters shout, 'Allahu Akbar,'" Sylvain told The Associated Press.
He spoke on condition that his full name not be used out of concern for his safety.
The Paris carnage was the worst in a series of attacks claimed by the Islamic State in the past three days. On Thursday, twin suicide bombings in Beirut killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 200, and 26 people died Friday in Baghdad in a suicide blast and a roadside bombing that targeted Shiites.
The militant group also said it bombed a Russian plane that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 31, killing 224 people.
IS also suffered significant reversals this week, with Kurdish forces launching an offensive to retake the strategic Iraqi city of Sinjar and the U.S. military saying it had likely killed Mohammed Emwazi, the masked British-accented militant known as "Jihadi John" who is seen in grisly IS beheading videos.
France has been on edge since January, when Islamic extremists attacked the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had run cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and a kosher grocery. Twenty people died in those attacks, including three shooters.
French authorities are particularly concerned about the threat from hundreds of French Islamic radicals who have traveled to Syria and returned home with skills to mount attacks.
"The big question on everyone's mind is: Were these attackers — if they turn out to be connected to one of the groups in Syria — were they homegrown terrorists or were they returning fighters?" said Brian Michael Jenkins, a terrorism expert.
Three teams of extremists carried out the coordinated gun-and-suicide bombing attacks across Paris that left 129 people dead and 352 injured, a French prosecutor said Saturday.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said 99 of the injured were in critical condition after the "act of barbarism." He said the attackers in the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people died, mentioned Syria and Iraq during their deadly rampage.
French President Francois Hollande has vowed that France will wage "merciless" war on the Islamic State group, after the jihadists claimed responsibility for the attacks Friday night.
Grief, alarm and resolve spread across Europe on Saturday as officials raced to piece together information on the seven attackers. Officials said one was a young Frenchman known to the authorities. In addition, a Syrian passport found near the body of another attacker was linked to a man who entered the European Union through a Greek island last month.
Attackers launched gun attacks at Paris cafes, detonated suicide bombs near France's national stadium and killed hostages inside a concert hall during a rock show — an attack on the heart of the pulsing City of Light.
"These places are the places we visit every week," said Ahsan Naeem, a 39-year-old filmmaker who has lived in Paris for seven years.
"Streets we walk every day ... All those places will have been full of my people. My friends. My acquaintances.”
Hollande, who declared three days of national mourning and raised the nation's security to its highest level, called the carnage "an act of war that was prepared, organized, planned from abroad with internal help."
The president said France would increase its military efforts to crush IS.
He said France — which is part of a U.S.-led coalition bombing suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq and also has troops fighting militants in Africa — "will be merciless toward the barbarians of Islamic State group."
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility in an online statement in Arabic and French circulated by supporters. It was not immediately possible to confirm the authenticity of the admission, which bore the group's logo and resembled previous verified statements from the group.
The statement mocked France's involvement in air attacks on suspected IS bases in Syria and Iraq, noting that France's air power was "of no use to them in the streets and rotten alleys of Paris."
Many of Paris's top tourist attractions closed down Saturday, including the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum and the Disneyland theme park east of the capital. Some 3,000 troops were deployed to help restore order and reassure a frightened populace.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced that all public demonstrations would be banned until Thursday and local governments would have the option to impose nightly curfews.
The attacks, on an unusually balmy November Friday evening, struck at the heart of Parisian life: diners in cafes, concertgoers watching a rock band, spectators at a soccer match.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said the places attacked are ones Parisians love — and ones where they celebrate diversity.
"It is this Paris that was hit. Probably because this example of living together, which is so strong in our city, is unbearable for fanatical people," she said.
Parisians expressed shock, disgust and defiance in equal measure. Some areas were quiet, but hundreds queued outside a hospital near the Bataclan concert hall to donate blood. As a shrine of flowers expanded along the sidewalk, a lone guitarist sang John Lennon's peace ballad "Imagine."
Authorities said eight attackers died, seven in suicide bombings, a new terror tactic in France. Police said they shot and killed the other assailant.
Molins, the prosecutor, said all the suicide attackers wore identical explosives vests.
Authorities in Belgium conducted raids in a Brussels neighborhood Saturday and made three arrests linked to the Paris attacks. Justice Minister Koen Geens told the VRT network that the arrests came after a car with Belgian license plates was seen close to the Bataclan theater.
Officials in Greece said the Syrian passport found in Paris had shown its owner entering in October through Leros, one of the islands that tens of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty in Syria and elsewhere have been using as a gateway into the European Union.
If the attack does involve militants who traveled to Europe amid millions of refugees from the Middle East, the implications could be profound.
Poland's prospective minister for European affairs, Konrad Szymanski, said that in light of the attacks, Poland would not comply with an EU plan to accept refugees unless it received "guarantees of security."
The attack brought an immediate tightening of borders as Hollande declared a state of emergency and announced renewed border checks. Germany also stepped up border checks.
The militants launched six gun and bomb attacks in rapid succession on apparently indiscriminate civilian targets.
Three suicide bombs targeted spots around the national Stade de France stadium, in the north of the capital, where Hollande was watching a France-Germany soccer match. Fans inside the stadium recoiled at the sound of explosions, but the match continued.
Around the same time, fusillades of bullets shattered the clinking of wine glasses in a trendy Paris neighborhood as gunmen targeted a string of crowded cafes.
The attackers next stormed the Bataclan concert hall, which was hosting the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal. They opened fire on the panicked audience and took members hostage. As police closed in, three detonated explosive belts, killing themselves, according to Paris police chief Michel Cadot.
Another attacker detonated a suicide bomb on Boulevard Voltaire, near the music hall, the prosecutor's office said.
Video shot posted by newspaper Le Monde Saturday captured some of that horror as dozens of people fled from gunfire outside the Bataclan.
At least one person lies writhing on the ground as scores more stream past, some bloodied or limping. The camera pans down the street to reveal more fleeing people dragging two bodies along the ground. A woman and two others can be seen clinging to upper-floor balcony railings in an desperate bid to stay out of the line of fire.
Le Monde said its reporter Daniel Psenney filed the scene from his apartment balcony, and was shot in the arm when he went downstairs to help someone who had collapsed.
A tall, sturdy 38-year-old concert-goer named Sylvain collapsed in tears as he recounted the attack, the chaos and his escape during a lull in gunfire.
"First I heard explosions, and I thought it was firecrackers," he said.
"Very soon I smelled powder, and I understood what was happening. There were shots everywhere, in waves. I lay down on the floor. I saw at least two shooters, but I heard others talk. They cried, 'It's Hollande's fault.' I heard one of the shooters shout, 'Allahu Akbar,'" Sylvain told The Associated Press.
He spoke on condition that his full name not be used out of concern for his safety.
The Paris carnage was the worst in a series of attacks claimed by the Islamic State in the past three days. On Thursday, twin suicide bombings in Beirut killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 200, and 26 people died Friday in Baghdad in a suicide blast and a roadside bombing that targeted Shiites.
The militant group also said it bombed a Russian plane that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 31, killing 224 people.
IS also suffered significant reversals this week, with Kurdish forces launching an offensive to retake the strategic Iraqi city of Sinjar and the U.S. military saying it had likely killed Mohammed Emwazi, the masked British-accented militant known as "Jihadi John" who is seen in grisly IS beheading videos.
France has been on edge since January, when Islamic extremists attacked the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had run cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and a kosher grocery. Twenty people died in those attacks, including three shooters.
French authorities are particularly concerned about the threat from hundreds of French Islamic radicals who have traveled to Syria and returned home with skills to mount attacks.
"The big question on everyone's mind is: Were these attackers — if they turn out to be connected to one of the groups in Syria — were they homegrown terrorists or were they returning fighters?" said Brian Michael Jenkins, a terrorism expert.
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https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/30105121/paris-attacks-french-air-force-pounds-is-in-syria/
PARIS ATTACKS: French fighter bombers pound IS stronghold
France has launched airstrikes on the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa in "self defence" of the deadly attacks in Paris that claimed 132 lives. France's defence ministry confirmed 12 warplanes, including 10 bombers, dropped 20 bombs on the stronghold that has served as the ISIS defacto capital.
The bombing struck a command-and-control centre, a training facility, recruitment building and a munitions depot. Speaking in Turkey where world leaders have gathered for a meeting of the G20, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius described the bombing as an act of "self defence".
"That's what we did today with the strikes on Raqqa. We can't let Daesh (an Arabic pejorative acronym for IS) attack without a reaction," The French defence ministry announced the attack earlier, saying in a statement the "first target destroyed was used by Daesh as a command post, jihadist recruitment centre and arms and munitions depot".
The planes left from Jordan and the United Arab Emirates and was conducted in co-ordination with American forces, the ministry said.
French President Francois Hollande on Saturday blamed the Islamic State group for the gun and suicide attacks that left 132 dead in Paris on Friday, calling them an "act of war".
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PARIS ATTACKS: French fighter bombers pound IS stronghold
France has launched airstrikes on the Islamic State-held city of Raqqa in "self defence" of the deadly attacks in Paris that claimed 132 lives. France's defence ministry confirmed 12 warplanes, including 10 bombers, dropped 20 bombs on the stronghold that has served as the ISIS defacto capital.
The bombing struck a command-and-control centre, a training facility, recruitment building and a munitions depot. Speaking in Turkey where world leaders have gathered for a meeting of the G20, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius described the bombing as an act of "self defence".
"That's what we did today with the strikes on Raqqa. We can't let Daesh (an Arabic pejorative acronym for IS) attack without a reaction," The French defence ministry announced the attack earlier, saying in a statement the "first target destroyed was used by Daesh as a command post, jihadist recruitment centre and arms and munitions depot".
The planes left from Jordan and the United Arab Emirates and was conducted in co-ordination with American forces, the ministry said.
French President Francois Hollande on Saturday blamed the Islamic State group for the gun and suicide attacks that left 132 dead in Paris on Friday, calling them an "act of war".
Viva La France
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I don't think this could be better said.... I do not normally share my thoughts on the world around us ... However I think this is the most important speak that you will hear ...
Please listen
It will change the way your think
Sue
Please listen
It will change the way your think
Sue
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Does this refer to the post on the terror attacks?
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Paris attacks mastermind identified as Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/30109232/anti-terrorism-raids-underway-in-france-local-media/
The mastermind behind the Paris terror attacks has been identified as Belgian Moroccan man Abdelhamid Abaaoud.Abaaoud is reportedly on the run and RTL radio in France describes the 27-year-old is 'one of the most active Isis executioners' in Syria.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud has been named as the the 'mastermind' behind the Paris terror attacks.
He is believed to have recruited his 13-year-old brother to join IS. Photo: Supplied
He is believed to be from the Molenbeek district of Brussels which has seen multiple police raids since the terror attacks on Friday night which killed 129 people in Paris. Abaaoud allegedly oversaw the attack and funded the Paris terror attacks. The Independent online reports that he is the son of a shopkeeper and he joined Isis in Syria in 2013. He is also said to have appeared in a video driving a van carrying a pile of mutilated bodies to a mass grave.
French police have launched more than 150 raids today, according to Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
The agency earlier reported the Paris prosecutor's office saying two more suicide bombers involved in deadly attacks in the French capital have been identified.
Viva La France
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/30109232/anti-terrorism-raids-underway-in-france-local-media/
The mastermind behind the Paris terror attacks has been identified as Belgian Moroccan man Abdelhamid Abaaoud.Abaaoud is reportedly on the run and RTL radio in France describes the 27-year-old is 'one of the most active Isis executioners' in Syria.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud has been named as the the 'mastermind' behind the Paris terror attacks.
He is believed to have recruited his 13-year-old brother to join IS. Photo: Supplied
He is believed to be from the Molenbeek district of Brussels which has seen multiple police raids since the terror attacks on Friday night which killed 129 people in Paris. Abaaoud allegedly oversaw the attack and funded the Paris terror attacks. The Independent online reports that he is the son of a shopkeeper and he joined Isis in Syria in 2013. He is also said to have appeared in a video driving a van carrying a pile of mutilated bodies to a mass grave.
French police have launched more than 150 raids today, according to Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
The agency earlier reported the Paris prosecutor's office saying two more suicide bombers involved in deadly attacks in the French capital have been identified.
Viva La France
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