France extends state of emergency

His other brother, Mohammed, was detained by Belgian police but released without charge Monday.

However, three French officials said yesterday that an analysis of the attacks showed one person directly involved in them was unaccounted for.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said police arrested 23 people and recovered a Kalashnikov and other weapons during the overnight raids.

(AP Photo/Frank Augstein). Flowers and candles are placed in front of the restaurant on Rue de Charonne, Paris, Sunday, November 15, 2015, where attacks took place on Friday. In addition to those killed, the attacks wounded 350 people, 99 of them seriously.

Islamic state militants have claimed responsibility for the carnage. Police have named two French attackers – Ismael Omar Mostefai, 29, from Chartres, southwest of Paris, and Samy Amimour, 28, from the Paris suburb of Drancy. On Monday, President Francois Hollande vowed to forge a united coalition capable of defeating the jihadists at home and overseas.

Describing the co-ordinated attacks that killed at least 129 people as “acts of war”, Hollande urged a global fightback to crush IS and said he would hold talks with his USA and Russian counterparts on a new offensive.

A few of the suspects have been linked to the bloody civil war raging in Syria that has enabled ISIS to thrive.

They “were decided and planned in Syria, prepared and organised in Belgium and perpetrated on our soil with French complicity”, he said.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Paris would spare no expense to reinforce and equip its security forces and law enforcement agencies to fight terrorism, even though that was bound to involve breaching European budget deficit limits. The tower was bathed in red, white and blue floodlights of the French tricolor, with the city’s centuries-old slogan – “Tossed but not sunk”, suggesting an unsinkable city braving stormy seas – projected in white lights near its base.

Abdeslam is believed to have fled after gunning down people at bars and cafes in Paris’ 10th and 11th arrondissements alongside his brother Brahim Abdeslam, who later blew himself up outside a bar on Boulevard Voltaire, seriously wounding one person.

Police apparently had no idea the passenger in the vehicle would later be identified as having been linked to the attacks.

Late on Sunday, French planes bombed the IS stronghold in northern Syria and more raids were reported Monday.

Police also discovered two places in Paris where the militants probably stayed before the violence and also found a third auto abandoned in the city that was used in the operation.

But police have yet to announce the capture of anyone suspected of direct involvement in Friday’s slaughter.

In all, six attackers died after detonating suicide belts and one was killed by police gunfire. Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan warned Monday that the attacks in Paris were likely not a “one off event” and that he expects the Islamic State group has more operations in the pipeline. On Monday, Belgian police in balaclavas, gas masks and body armor raided Abdeslam’s suspected hideout in the Molenbeek district of Brussels but came out empty-handed.

He said he didn’t know where his brother Salah was or whether he would surrender to police, and expressed familial loyalty to him despite his shock over the mass killings. “We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by God, you will have a day, God willing, like France’s and by God, as we struck France in the centre of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its centre in Washington”, the man said.

France will create 5,000 new police jobs in the next two years and will make no job cuts among its military until 2019 to maintain security at an adequate level, said Hollande. The air power of the United States, France and Britain is exclusively targeting IS targets.

The strikes early on Tuesday destroyed a command post and training camp, military spokesman Colonel Gilles Jaron said. The jets launched from sites in Jordan and the Persian Gulf, in coordination with US forces. He also called for powers to quickly expel potential terrorists from France. “We are going to live with this terrorist threat for a long time”. “We are in a war against jihadist terrorism which is threatening the whole world”, he told a packed chamber at the gilded Versailles Palace near Paris on Monday.

“ISIL is the face of evil”, Obama said at a press conference from the G-20 summit in Antalya, Turkey. “It’s going to take time”.

The Islamic State group issued a new 12-minute video Monday threatening to attack all nations involved in bombing IS positions in Syria and Iraq.

At least one key suspect is on the loose.

Paris remains on edge amid three days of official mourning. But any sound of loud bangs can sent people scurrying for cover.

“Whoever starts running starts everyone else running”, said a city councilwoman, Alice Carton, who was at the square.