France bombs IS headquarters in Raqqa, hunts attacker who got away

“The barbarians who attack France would like to disfigure it. They will not make it change”, Hollande pledged.

However, he signalled a likely monthslong security crackdown following security sweeps overnight in which police nationwide arrested 127 people and seized 31 weapons, including automatic firearms and a rocket launcher.

“I chose to ask parliament starting Wednesday to examine a bill prolonging the state of emergency for three months”, he said. Ismael Mostefai, 29 and also from France, was also identified as a suspect.

Seven of the assailants were killed in Friday’s attacks.

Earlier on Monday, thousands clasped hands outside a few of the bullet-riddled nightspots as children returned to school and city authorities vowed to resume normal life as quickly as possible.

The rector of the Great Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur, called for all French imams to lead “a solemn prayer” for the victims on Friday.

Hollande pledged that French fighter jets would intensify their assaults and said he would meet US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming days to urge them to pool their resources.

Six blew themselves up with suicide belts, while police shot a seventh dead.

The Crisis Center at the Interior Ministry released new photos of Salah Abdeslam, and the Belgian Federal Police put out a new search notice for him.

Ibrahim was identified as the driver of a rented Seat vehicle found abandoned with a stock of Kalashnikovs in the back after the attacks.

Police continue to hunt for Salah Abdeslam, and have branded him “dangerous” and warned the public not to approach him. 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. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said “we are at war” against terrorism.

Two prominent ISIS members, Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Salim Benghalem, may have been involved in planning or masterminding the Paris attacks, a source close to the ongoing investigation tells CNN. On Sunday, authorities in Belgium arrested seven people in connection with the Paris attacks, two of whom are French nationals, reports the Wall Street Journal. But he insisted his strategy of building an global coalition to launch airstrikes, while training and equipping more moderate forces on the ground, remained the best approach.

Details of how Abdeslam was involved in the attack were not disclosed.

A resident in rue de Prague in Neudorf, in central Strasbourg, east France, reportedly witnessed a man of Abdeslam’s appearance entering the five-storey building at 3.30pm today. An unnamed official told the Associated Press that Abaaoud also was linked to the attempted attack on a train from Amsterdam to Paris in August that was stopped by passengers.

The other participant named by authorities is Bilal Hadfi, one of the suicide bombers who set off their explosives outside the Stade de France, the national stadium where France’s soccer team was playing Germany.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive investigation.

At the same time, al-Baghdadi’s modus operandi is to ensure “built-in redundancy” to everything the Islamic State does, the source said, suggesting that the terrorist leader has likely given the green light to multiple operatives like Abaaoud to plot and execute different kinds of attacks, typically working independently.