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While most of the deaths happened in the Bataclan nightclub (89) there were coordinated attacks at a soccer game with the French President attending and on open street restaurants. The seven attackers, divided into 3 teams to disrupt any response by the authorities to a single location. All of the attackers either detonated the bomb vests or were killed by responders in the nightclub.

In typical ISIS/ISIL fashion, the planner of the attack did not directly participate and was killed in a raid in a Paris suburb. Others were caught in a Brussels Islamic neighborhood.

Some further followup that applies to our own domestic politics.

President Obama had stated the previous day, November 12th, that ISIS had been 'contained' to the areas of Syria and Iraq where it was currently fighting. After the attack, he spoke at a press briefing to support the French People and Government but declined to echo the French in assigning blame to ISIS.

On the next day, November 14th, there was an international expression of sympathy in displaying national monuments in the colors of the French Tri-color (Blue-White-Red) from Sydney to San Francisco. Notable in absence was the US White House that, just months previous (June), displayed the Rainbow Colors to celebrate the Supreme Court striking down the Defense of Marriage Act.