Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud dead

[Khadgar]

Paris, France (CNN)The ringleader in last week's bloody terrorist attacks in Paris died in a pre-dawn raid Wednesday on an apartment building north of the French capital, the Paris prosecutor's office announced Thursday.

Authorities zeroed in on a building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis after picking up phone conversations indicating that a relative of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who authorities believe coordinated the shootings and bombings that killed 129 people, may have been there, a Belgian counterterrorism official said.

French police believed Abaaoud himself was then still in the country, though they didn't know exactly where. Some residents in Saint-Denis told CNN that they had seen Abaaoud recently in the neighborhood and at a local mosque.

It turns out Abaaoud was in that building in Saint-Denis. And after a violent firefight that included explosions and gunfire, he was dead.

In a statement released Thursday, the Paris prosecutor's office said that Abaaoud's body was found in the Saint-Denis building riddled with bullets. The office said that he was positively identified using papillary prints, which include patterns on fingers, palms and the soles of the feet.

[Independent voter]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34867615

BBC version. This is good news, too bad they didn't capture him alive.

[Deleted]

Well he became a martyr all in all it probably is only a symbolic victory.

[Azadina]

Well done to the police. Good riddance ^^

[Theinquisition]

From the pic it looks like he was active with ISIS, why was he allowed to return to France and why was he not being watched?

There's a lesson to be learned here.

[Deleted]

Well he became a martyr all in all it probably is only a symbolic victory.

Like the attacks themselves are only symbolic?!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34867615

BBC version. This is good news, too bad they didn't capture him alive.

Is it bad that I wanted the french to behead him on stage with a guillotine?
Yeah, yeah, "they'd be just as bad as ISIS". You know I really don't think having the moral highground gives you an advantage.

From the pic it looks like he was active with ISIS, why was he allowed to return to France and why was he not being watched?

There's a lesson to be learned here.

Don't let them back in or outright shoot them when they try? Which one?

[zenkai]

To bad, he needed to bet questioned

[Deleted]

Like the attacks themselves are only symbolic?!



Is it bad that I wanted the french to behead him on stage with a guillotine?
Yeah, yeah, "they'd be just as bad as ISIS". You know I really don't think having the moral highground gives you an advantage.



Don't let them back in or outright shoot them when they try? Which one?

The attacks weren't symbolic. But martyrdom is a positive outcome for them.

[Khadgar]

From the pic it looks like he was active with ISIS, why was he allowed to return to France and why was he not being watched?

There's a lesson to be learned here.

He faked his death last year so people wouldn't be looking for him, and he used Greece to travel back and forth from Syria to France.

[TwistedSkull]

I would rather have had him rot in prison instead of dying.

[Howard Moon]

Dammit, yet another asshole who managed to get his 72 virgins instead of being kept alive for questioning and/or torturing.

[caervek]

too bad they didn't capture him alive.

If you're trying to capture somebody alive they sometimes get shot, they don't usually get shot to swiss cheese

[Azadina]

Dammit, yet another asshole who managed to get his 72 virgins instead of being kept alive for questioning and/or torturing.

Only to notice, that Allah had 40+ year old men as his virgin reward.

[Theinquisition]

He faked his death last year so people wouldn't be looking for him, and he used Greece to travel back and forth from Syria to France.

He didn't need a passport to travel?

Every international airport I've been in over the last 8 years has bio metric scanners and require passports with id chips in them. Someone dropped the ball

[Jeleh]

I would rather have had him rot in prison instead of dying.

Don't kid yourself. What prison would have been able to keep him alive? Regardless of how it went down the end result was always going to be the same for this guy.

Now do not misunderstand, I place my faith in the justice system and I agree he should have faced that justice. Ultimately the end result would have been the same however.

[Deleted]

Good riddance.

Human trash like that should be removed from the ranks of the living.

Well done by RAID.

[luc54]

He didn't need a passport to travel?

Every international airport I've been in over the last 8 years has bio metric scanners and require passports with id chips in them. Someone dropped the ball

Wasn't he the one that got fake Syria passport and just got refugee status? I doubt they even have bio ID or any other way to verify them easily.

[Deleted]

He didn't need a passport to travel?

Every international airport I've been in over the last 8 years has bio metric scanners and require passports with id chips in them. Someone dropped the ball

Cars and trains didn't use plane.

[Independent voter]

From the pic it looks like he was active with ISIS, why was he allowed to return to France and why was he not being watched?

There's a lesson to be learned here.

A lot of the 8 had former terrorist charges, why the authorities in France didn't track them closer is a mystery to me. Some of them even spent time in jail for terrorist activities.

[Daedius]

Why can't these scourges of society ever be captured alive so they can actually suffer and rot away in prison for the rest of their lives...