Paris: French and Belgian security services were facing difficult questions on Wednesday night over how one of Europe's most wanted terrorists was able to slip back into France from Syria and mastermind the Paris attacks from a flat in the city. DNA tests are expected to confirm that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man named as the ringleader behind last week's massacre, was one of two terrorists killed in a fierce gun battle with police in Saint-Denis, little more than a kilometre and a half from the area attacked on Friday. One of them was a female suicide bomber who blew herself up. Abaaoud had assembled a second terrorist cell that was "ready to go" with a fresh wave of...
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