Paris (AFP) - The Islamic State jihadist suspected of orchestrating the Paris attacks was killed in a major police raid in the French capital, prosecutors confirmed, raising troubling questions about a breakdown in intelligence and European border security. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan origin linked to a series of extremist plots in Europe over the past two years, died in Wednesday's assault by police on an apartment in northern Paris. The 28-year-old was thought to have been in Syria -- where he had boasted of planning attacks on the West -- and his presence in France will renew debate about Europe's border controls and monitoring of fighters returning from the war-torn...
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