New Attacks Being Prepared ‘in France and Elsewhere in Europe’: French PM

The message to countries involved in what it called the “crusader campaign” was delivered by a man dressed in fatigues and a turban, and identified in subtitles as Al Ghareeb the Algerian.

The authenticity of the video has not been verified.

French President Francois Hollande, having said shortly after the attacks his country is at war, on Monday continued this aggressive attitude. “But we’re not engaged in a war of civilisations, because these assassins do not represent any”. On this Mr Hollande was eloquent but vague.

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During those first few days, many went underground, not sure what to do about their new, brutal occupier, who proceeded to slaughter more than 700 men from the Arab Sunni Muslim tribe of Shueitat because the tribe did not pledge allegiance to Islamic State.

President Hollande was told his country is under attack while watching France take on Germany in a friendly at the Stade de France. Its statement mocked France’s air attacks on suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq, and called Paris “the capital of prostitution and obscenity”.

“My sense is everybody understands that with Lebanon’s attacks, with what’s happened in Egypt, with Ankara, Turkey and attacks in Paris, we have to step up our efforts to hit [IS] at the core where they’re planning these things and also obviously to do more on borders in terms the movement of people”, Kerry told the press on Tuesday.

French media said police also raided houses in Toulouse, Grenoble and Bobigny.

Armed officers will be deployed at Wembley Stadium for the England v France football, according to the Metropolitan Police.

The airstrikes by a dozen aircraft, including 10 fighter jets, destroyed a militant training camp and a command and weapons center in Islamic State’s declared capital of Raqqah in Syria, the French Defense Ministry said. He demanded an end to “hand-wringing” over blanket government spying on the entire population of the United States and the world carried out in the name of combating terrorism.

The investigation into the coordinated Paris attacks, the worst atrocity in France since World War Two, led swiftly to Belgium after police discovered that two of the cars used by the militants had been rented in the Brussels region. The two, about whom officials gave no details, face charges of leading a terrorist attack and taking part in the activities of a terrorist organisation.

Police has proceeded in seven arrests in Belgium and has identified three suspected terrorists who resided in Brussels.

French police issued an alert and released a photo of Salah Abdeslam, 26. He told interrogators other attacks were in the works.

Twenty-six-year-old Salah Abdeslam, a French national who helped plan the attacks with two of his brothers, has been described as “dangerous”.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility of the Friday’s attacks in Paris which killed 129 people and injured 350 others.

Belgian prosecutors also said two of the Paris assailants – killed during the attacks – had been living in Belgium.

French warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria on Sunday as police in Europe widened their investigations into co-ordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people. In the past 24 hours, seven people have been arrested in connection with the France attacks in Belgium and five were held in the Molenbeek area of Brussels.

Mr Fergus said it was impossible to be certain, but knowing the very hierarchical, compartmentalised structure of IS, the operation was nearly certainly authorised by Islamic State’s senior leadership group in the Middle East.

But European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who has urged EU countries to take in more refugees, said there was no need for a complete review of the bloc’s policies. Belgian investigators believed he was the ringleader of the cell and the “link person” to the senior leadership of ISIS in Syria, according to the senior Belgian counterterrorism official.

A regular meeting of European defence minister on Tuesday will probably be transformed into an emergency discussion on the attacks.

A placard reading “Paris I love you” is seen among candles at a makeshift memorial in front of the Bataclan theatre, one of the site of the attacks in Paris, on Sunday.

“We should not mix the different categories of people coming to Europe”.

A 33-year-old Algerian extradited to Belgium after being arrested in Greece was also charged with terrorism offenses in relation to the plot.