Suspected architect of Paris attacks is dead, according to two senior intelligence officials

washingtonpost.com ^ | November 18 at 1:09 PM | Anthony Faiola, Missy Ryan and Daniela Deane

[GonzoII]

PARIS - A massive police raid Wednesdays killed the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks during a blitz-style sweep, two senior European intelligence officials said, after investigators followed leads that the fugitive militant was holed up north of the French capital and could be plotting another wave of violence.

More than 100 police and soldiers stormed the building during a seven-hour siege that left two dead including the suspected overseer of the Paris bloodshed, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who had once boasted he could slip easily between Europe and the Islamic State strongholds in Syria.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks gleeaikin.

[caww]

I think he's dead...but smart French Authorities aren't confirming one way or the other....

But "Blondie's" certainly a goner...

Female suicide bomber who cried out 'God is great' in Arabic before detonating her explosives and blowing herself up....shattering windows and sending objects from the apartment into the street as well as body tissue......( the police never entered the building, but operated from below and atop a rooftop across from the apartment.).........'Hasna Aitboulahcen'..... cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the savage responsible for orchestrating the Paris attacks. ........she was on her cell-phone moments before she blew herself up...Hasna Aitboulahcen is a French-Moroccan national, but she 'grew up in the Paris region and ran her own business', 'Beko Construction', until 2012,.....the 26-year-old was already on the radar of intelligence services.

[caww]

I think he's dead...but smart French Authorities aren't confirming one way or the other....

But "Blondie's" certainly a goner...

Female suicide bomber who cried out 'God is great' in Arabic before detonating her explosives and blowing herself up....shattering windows and sending objects from the apartment into the street as well as body tissue......( the police never entered the building, but operated from below and atop a rooftop across from the apartment.).........'Hasna Aitboulahcen'..... cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the savage responsible for orchestrating the Paris attacks. ........she was on her cell-phone moments before she blew herself up...Hasna Aitboulahcen is a French-Moroccan national, but she 'grew up in the Paris region and ran her own business', 'Beko Construction', until 2012,.....the 26-year-old was already on the radar of intelligence services.

[caww]

It was a ditched cell-phone from the initial Paris attacks that lead the police to the apartment they raided.......I suspect there's a host of other information on that phone identifying various information the authorities would want.

Here's an interesting run down....The "Battle of Saint-Denis"