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Abdelhamid Abaaoud
Morocco Had Key Intel Role After Paris Attacks
A top Moroccan intelligence official said on Tuesday that it was his country that put French and Belgian police on the trail of the network behind the November attacks in Paris that killed 130, and likely spared more lives by pinpointing the location of the suspected ringleader.
The Genie Is out of the Bottle—It’s Foolish to Think Encryption Can Now Be Banned
Politicians have turned their sights on encryption once more following terrorist outrages in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.
Paris Attacks Organizer Was Planning More Carnage: Official
The man believed to have planned the Nov. 13 Paris attacks that killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more had likely planned to carry out another suicide bombing days later in the French capital’s business district, the Paris prosecutor said Tuesday.
French Hunt 2nd Fugitive, Launch New Airstrikes on ISIS
French police hunted Tuesday for a 2nd terrorist believed to have escaped after the bomb and gun massacres in Paris, while a U.S. official revealed that the suspected mastermind was part of an Islamic State cell that American intelligence agencies had been tracking for months.
Belgian Jihadi ID'd as Mastermind of Paris Attacks
Once a happy-go-lucky student at one of Brussels’ most prestigious high schools, Saint-Pierre d'Uccle, Abdelhamid Abaaoud morphed into Belgium’s most notorious jihadi.
