BY JAMES SIMONS
Two people killed today as police launched a seven-hour raid on a flat suspected of harbouring Abdelhamid Abaaoud – the alleged mastermind of Friday’s attacks.
When the police stormed the residence in the Paris suburb of St Denis, a woman blew herself up with a suicide bomb, whilst police killed another suspect with gunfire. Seven arrests in total were made, marking the turn of events since the bloodbath in France last weekend that took the world by shock. The intrusive massacre was the worst seen in Paris since the second World War.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud , the Belgium fugitive believed to have masterminded the attacks, was thought to have directed them from Syria. However, intelligence gathered through phone taps and surveillance operators later pointed to Paris as his hiding base. All the victims of the attacks have been identified, with some of the deceased and injured related to a couple of French football players and some even close to celebrities. Russia has joined the U.K and the U.S in a race against time to destroy the ISIS base . ‘France is at war’, was the declaration from the French President, and the drama looks far from over.
The cause of the attacks are indubitably connected to the longstanding disaffection felt by Muslim extremists about foreign policy, though they are generally believed to be a reaction to the U.S drone attack that killed Mohammed Emwazi- a highly ranked and ruthless Jihadist from London who beheaded an American journalist and a caring British cab. driver, among others. The French attacks occurred on the immediate next day after those attacks, and has since spiralled into kind of a war zone on the ground in Paris.
Meanwhile, an explosion caused by Islamic sect ,Boko Haram, killed 30 people in Nigeria today in what might be evolving into a world wide attack. Let’s hope this doesn’t happen.
