Paris Attack Mastermind Captured, Was Planning Further Attacks from Brussels

(Telegraph-UK) James Rothwell and David Chazan - Salah Abdeslam, who was said to be the logistics chief for the Nov. 13 Paris attacks which killed 130 people, was arrested by Belgian authorities on Saturday, who said he had been planning more attacks from Brussels. Belgium's foreign minister Didier Reynders said Sunday that Abdeslam claimed "he was ready to restart something from Brussels....We found a lot of weapons, heavy weapons in the first investigations, and we have seen a new network of people around him in Brussels." According to Paris prosecutor Francois Molins, Abdeslam was supposed to detonate a suicide bomb at the Stade de France in Paris in November but "backed out" at the last minute.


2016-03-21 00:00:00

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