Mastermind Of Paris Attacks Identified

Daily Mail: The mastermind of terror: Officials say Paris massacres were planned by Belgian who once recruited his 13-year-old brother to fight for ISIS in Syria and posed smiling next to decapitated bodies

* Mastermind of Paris massacres is believed to be ISIS executioner and recruiter Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27,
* He is from an area of Brussels known as the 'Jihad capital of Europe' and a 'den of terrorists' because of terror links
* French police are hunting Salah Abdeslam, 26, whose brother Ibrahim was a bomber. Sibling Mohammed in custody
* Anti-terror police held 'getaway driver' Salah on Belgian border in hours after the attack but he was released
* Ahmed Almuhamed, 25, believed have joined Bataclan terror squad after sneaking into Europe posed as a migrant
* Homegrown terrorist Omar Ismaël Mostefai, 29, and former ISIS fighter Bilal Hadfi named as suicide bombers
* Suspect called Samy Aminour, 28, believed to have been a Bataclan attacker, identified after a raid on Paris flats
* French attacks have left 129 dead and 352 injured - 96 of which are in a critical condition. 30 dead not yet identif

The mastermind behind the Paris terror attacks was today named as one of ISIS' top executioners who even recruited his 13-year-old brother to fight with him in Syria.

Belgian extremist Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, is one of the world's most wanted war criminals and is believed to have persuaded thousands of young jihadis to come to Syria, including his teenage brother Younes, ISIS' youngest fanatic.

Abaaoud, who has regularly posed with bodies he decapitated and was seen in Greece in January but evaded arrest, was also linked to the thwarted high speed train attack earlier this year and church attacks around Paris.

WNU Editor: Here are the suspects believed responsible for the Paris attacks .... Paris attack suspects: what do we know about them? (The Guardian).

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France Names Paris Attack Mastermind, Makes 23 Additional Arrests -- VOA
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Suspected Paris attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud: what we know -- The Guardian