Wide Manhunt After Paris Attack Suspect Released by Police

The suspect has been linked to a series of other terror plots. He had been a target since January after allegedly plotting to murder Belgian police and has been on the run ever since. Now, his whereabouts are unknown.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins separately said one of the vehicles used in Friday’s attacks was registered in Belgium and hired by a French national living there.

Police stopped him hours after the attacks in a auto on his way toward the Belgian border but let him go because he apparently hadn’t yet been linked to the terrorist operation.

France police has released the names of two of the alleged French attackers; Ismael Omar Mostefai, 29, from Chartres, southwest of Paris, and Samy Amimour, 28, from the Paris suburb of Drancy.

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.

– Ahmad Al Mohammad, 25, died after detonating a suicide bomb outside the soccer stadium. He also addressed a controversial bill that he says will ensure that British authorities have powers to follow terrorist movements by tracking and intercepting communications.

The fresh raids took place came as Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud was named the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks.

The Paris attacks that killed at least 129 people continued to prompt raids and arrests in Europe and airstrikes in Syria.

The security and intelligence services will receive a major funding boost in response to the IS threat, which has been blamed for the bombing of a Russian airliner in Egypt and the Paris attack in recent weeks.

– At least 26 US states have said they won’t accept any refugees from Syria.

During a meeting on Sunday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the G-20 summit, Obama described the attacks in Paris as an “attack on the civilized world”.

– He also proposed measures that would allow France to deport suspected terrorists or strip them of their citizenship, even if they were born in the country. The Defense Ministry said 12 French aircraft, including 10 fighter jets, destroyed a munitions depot and jihadi training camp in Raqqa, according to the NY Times. The Serbian government said the holder of a Syrian passport found near the body of one of the gunmen had passed through the country last month.

French anti-terrorism authorities had been aware of Amimour; he had been charged for “activities in collaboration with a terrorist enterprise” in 2012, the prosecutor’s office said.

– French authorities say they have taken 23 people into custody, put 104 under house arrest and seized weapons that include a rocket launcher.

There were at least 352 people injured from the attacks, including 99 people in critical condition.

The Belgian football federation announced late Monday that it had called off Tuesday’s friendly against Spain over security concerns. The police said they were still checking to see if the document was authentic, they added that the dead man’s fingerprints matched those on record in Greece.