Suspect’s photo published in Paris, police appeal for witnesses

In its statement claiming responsibility, the Islamic State group called Paris “the capital of prostitution and obscenity” and mocked France’s air attacks on suspected IS targets in Syria and Iraq.

Initial reports from activists on the ground in Raqqa, which could not be verified independently, said that hospitals had not reported any civilian casualties.

Targeted on sites previously identified on reconnaissance missions by France, this operation was carried out in conjunction with U.S. forces.

The attack was carried out in co-ordination with USA forces.

French police also issued a warrant for the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old man born in Belgium. French investigators believe there were three teams involved in Friday’s attacks on Paris and are probing possible links to the conflict in Syria in a joint inquiry with Belgium.

But a few analysts noted that many aspects of the assault had failed.

A source close to the inquiry said it remained unclear whether the person the passport was issued to was in fact one of the suicide bombers.

Struggling to keep his country calm and united after an exceptionally violent year, Hollande met Sunday with opposition leaders – conservative rival and former President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as increasingly popular far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who has used the attacks on Paris to advance her anti-immigrant agenda.

Iraqi intelligence sent a dispatch saying the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had ordered an attack on coalition countries fighting against them in Iraq and Syria, as well as on Iran and Russian Federation, through bombings or other attacks in the days ahead. Indeed, his belt may have detonated prematurely on his way to an intended target in the 18th Arrondissement, officials said.

“It is coordinated”, said Alain Bauer, a French criminologist who serves on an advisory council to the government.

Officials from the USA, French and other Western governments have expressed worries for months about Islamic State-inspired attacks by militants who fought in Syria, the official noted.

The Associated Press reported that Abdeslam eluded capture during an encounter with French law enforcement shortly after the attacks. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. He was normal. He had a joie de vivre. “It was in 2010, that’s when he started to become radicalized”, the neighbor said. “We don’t understand what happened”.

Asked whether Abdelslam’s name had been shared over police networks by then, the official simply said: “I have no explanation”. When they hijacked a vehicle two days after the attacks, they let the owner go after waiting for him to get his dog out of the back seat. The passport was linked to a man who entered the European Union through the Greek island of Leros last month. Medhi Nemmouche, who killed four people at the Jewish Museum of Brussels in March 2014, rented a room in the neighborhood shortly before his attack. Ayoub El-Khazzani, whose attempted attack on a Thalys train near the French town of Oignies in August was thwarted by passengers, also reportedly stayed there for a time.

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said Molenbeek, known as a hotbed of radicalisation, was a “gigantic problem”. “This is a enormous problem”.

– Fifteen people were killed as attackers opened fire at the intersection of rue Alibert and rue Bichat, in the 10th district of Paris near the Canal Saint Martin.

A third suicide bomber who died in the assault on the Bataclan concert hall, was identified earlier as Ismael Mostefai, a 29-year French national known to intelligence services for having ties with extremists. Another brother, Mohamed, was detained Saturday in Molenbeek.

He is one of three brothers believed to be involved in the killings; one was arrested in Belgium and another died in the attack, the first official said. He apparently slipped through their fingers immediately after the attacks.

Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, the Paris prosecutor’s spokeswoman, told CNN that six people – all family relatives of Mostefaï – have been detained. He showed his papers.

Mostefai, along with two other gunmen, killed 89 people inside the Bataclan concert hall Friday night, according to authorities. Another team of men drove to multiple locations in east-central Paris, firing hundreds of rounds from Kalashnikov rifles at bar and restaurant patrons.

It was not clear if the passport was real or fake, or if it belonged to the suicide bomber. A Brussels parking ticket found inside led police to at least one of the arrests in Belgium, a French police official said.

A Serbian official said Almuhamed crossed into Serbia from Macedonia on October 7 as an asylum seeker. “They like to play soccer and they go to mosque”. No one else is killed.

In a news release Sunday Bentley said, “After full consideration of this weekend’s attacks of terror on innocent citizens in Paris, I will oppose any attempt to relocate Syrian refugees to Alabama through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program”.