Belgian national Abaaoud could be commander of Paris attacks

One of his brothers, Brahim Abdeslam, has been identified among the suicide bombers involved in the Paris attacks, in which 129 people were killed in simultaneous assaults on a concert hall and other sites.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. French detectives questioned one of the jihadis behind Friday’s terror attacks as he crossed the Belgian border and let him go after he showed them his ID card.

Abdelslam, a French resident of Belgium, was not among those arrested. At least five people were targeted by attackers with automatic rifles. One of the brothers was killed in the attacks, and another was arrested by Belgian police, he said. Early Monday morning, a law enforcement source told ABC News that Abdeslam had been tracked to a building in Molenbeek, where he is surrounded by police. However, Belgian public broadcaster RTBF said he was not arrested.

Among those released was Mohammed Abdeslam, brother of the wanted man. Thoreau told CNN that the released Abdeslam brother did not know his brother’s whereabouts. “There was no lookout notice at the time of the traffic stop”, a French police official told the AP. The Paris prosecutor’s office has identified that attacker as a 31-year-old French citizen but hasn’t disclosed his name.

The dispatch did not say where or when the attacks might take place, and a senior French security official told the AP that French intelligence gets this kind of communication “all the time” and “every day”.

The official has direct knowledge of the investigation but is not authorized to be publicly identified as speaking about the probe. Mostefai was one of the three terrorists who stormed the Bataclan concert hall, according to officials.

France Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared that his country was at war with terrorism.

He was placed under supervision in 2012 after anti-terrorism authorities investigated an aborted attempt to travel to Yemen, the statement said.

Police refused to provide any details about who may have set off the explosions or the objective for them. Media named the two other French assailants as Bilal Hadfi and Ibrahim Abdeslam.

Julien Pearce, a journalist at Europe 1 radio who escaped by crawling onto the stage, said he got a good look at one attacker who appeared “very young”.

French authorities say Sunday night’s airstrikes destroyed a jihadi training camp and a munitions dump in the city of Raqqa, where Iraqi intelligence officials say the attacks on Paris were planned.

An attacker who blew himself up outside the national soccer stadium was said to have been found with a Syrian passport with the name Ahmad Al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib.

Witnesses said the second auto, a black Seat, was used by the gunmen who shot dozens of people in bars and restaurants in the hip Canal St Martin area of Paris.

But she said measures like “sealing borders with razor wire and having police on trains requesting papers” won’t prevent desperate refugees from reaching Europe.

Police carried out a series of anti-terrorism raids early Monday in France, including in a suburb of Toulouse, a suburb of Grenoble and outside Calais, French media reported.

The stand-off came as Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud was named the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks. Ammunition and a large amount of cash were found at one of the locations.

He said that more than 150 police raids have been carried out since Friday across France under the state of emergency.

The death toll was put 132 on Sunday, but reports on Monday said that increase may have been a counting error. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was detained in the raid.

In the aftermath of the massacre, Belgian police raided several addresses in the district and arrested seven people in connection with the atrocity during the weekend.