Even Abdelhamid Abaaoud’s own family prayed for his death, and on Thursday they got their wish fulfilled when the Belgian jihadist behind the Paris attacks was confirmed killed in a French police raid in Saint-Denis. In an IS video, Abaaoud was seen laughing as he drove a car which dragged mutilated bodies behind it Abaaoud was a one-time school bully and petty criminal from the Brussels immigrant district of Molenbeek who graduated to become a leading Islamic State (IS) militant with ties to a series of plots in Europe. The 28-year-old of Moroccan origin had recently boasted of evading police dragnets in Europe, and taunted European authorities from what was assumed to be an IS base...
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