French intelligence officials received pertinent intel from a foreign spy service regarding the whereabouts of Abu Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the architect of last week’s Paris atrocities.
By JPOST.COM STAFF
Jean-Michel Fauvergue, the commander of the RAID special police forces unit which carried out the raid in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis on Wednesday, said that many of the methods used by his charges were learned from their Israeli counterpart.
In an interview with the French-language daily Le Figaro, Fauvergue said that the operation, which resulted in the deaths of two terrorists and the arrest of five others, took seven hours. Continue Reading »