Nine held in connection with Paris attacks

This has left the military overstretched at a time when M Hollande wants to ramp up street patrols during a three-month state of emergency. President Hollande said he would create 5,000 jobs in the police and security forces, and boost staff in the prison service by 2,500.

However, Iraqi intelligence officials told the AP they also warned France about specific details – including that the attackers were trained for this operation and sent back to France from Raqqa.

“We are not in a war of civilizations, because these assassins don’t represent one. We are in a war against jihadist terrorism, which threatens the entire world”.

Late on Sunday, French planes took off from the Gulf to bomb the stronghold of the Islamic State jihadists, who claimed responsibility for Friday’s carnage in Paris.

Neither Molins nor French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve would say whether a few attackers might still be on the loose. “They were people like you and me”.

Belgian police had detained Mohamed Abdeslam on Saturday as part of a wave of arrests but he was freed without charge on Monday along with four other suspects. No weapons or explosives were found. Belgium has issued an worldwide warrant for his arrest.

“What would France be without its museums, without its terraces, its concerts, its sports competitions?”

There were also reports of raids in Jeumont, on the border with Belgium, Toulouse and in Bobigny, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris.

As many as three of the seven suicide bombers were French citizens, as was at least one of the men arrested in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels, which authorities consider to be a focal point for extremists and fighters going to Syria from Belgium.

A ceasefire between Syria’s government and opposition could be just weeks away from reality, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday as he visited Paris to show solidarity with France after last week’s attacks.

Huver told The Associated Press Monday the video was too fragmentary to say much about Abaaoud’s character, but that he detected a few signs the Belgian was moving into a leadership role. Now, his whereabouts are unknown.

The French media has reported the death of a police dog named Diesel, a seven-year old Belgian Shepherd police attack dog, which was killed by the terrorists.

She said she could hear gunfire on and off for over an hour, followed by “one really huge boom”.

Abaaoud is believed to have carried out several armed robberies with two brothers who are implicated in the Paris attacks.

Abdeslam rented the black Volkswagen Polo used by the hostage-takers, another French security official said. But it’s not yet clear whether he was in the vehicle at the time of the attacks, the newspaper said.

Amimour was charged in 2012 for “conspiracy to commit terrorism” over a planned attack in Yemen that was foiled.

It was the deadliest attack in France since World War Two and the worst such assault in Europe since the Madrid train bombings of 2004, in which Islamists killed 191 people. This attack will change Europe.

Earlier, broadcaster RTL said Abdeslam, a Frenchman wanted in connection with the Paris attacks, had been arrested.

Attention is also heavily focused on a Syrian passport found near the body of another of the three Stade de France bombers.

His fingerprints matched those of someone who passed through Greece in October.

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

Although the new security measures would greatly increase the state budget, Hollande said that security was more important than tending to the budget deficit.

At one intersection, police who arrived to direct traffic were met by anxious pedestrians. who kept asking, “Is anything happening?” according to CNN’s Atika Shubert. But he added that they “encouraged us today to do even harder work to make progress and to help resolve the crises that we face”.