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world NEWSWednesday 18 November
French hunt 2nd fugitive, launch new airstrikes on IS
A police officer stands by a Renault Clio with Belgian license plates and being removed in Paris, a possible Syrian cease-fire has not been identified.
so the world could focus The Paris attacks have gal-
Tuesday, Nov.17, 2015. The car, that could be linked to Friday’s attacks, was discovered near on crushing IS. vanized international de-
French and Belgian police termination to confront the
the commuter train line that links to France’s national stadium, which was a site targeted by 3 were already looking for militants.
a key suspect, 26-year-old The French government
suicide bombers. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) Salah Abdeslam, whose invoked a never-before-
suicide-bomber brother, used article of the EU’s
LORI HINNANT edented demand that and Russian warplanes Brahim, died in the attacks Lisbon Treaty obliging
JAMEY KEATEN its European Union allies pounded the jihadi group’s Friday night that killed at members of the 28-nation
Associated Press support its military action self-declared capital in Syr- least 129 people and left bloc to give “aid and assis-
PARIS (AP) — French police against the Islamic State ia. President Vladimir Putin over 350 wounded in Paris. tance by all the means in
are hunting for a second group. ordered a Russian military Islamic state militants have their power” to a member
fugitive directly involved in The disclosure of a second cruiser to work with France claimed responsibility for country that is “the victim
the deadly Paris attacks, possible fugitive, whom au- on fighting the militants in the carnage. of armed aggression on its
officials said Tuesday, as thorities said they hadn’t Syria and U.S. Secretary of Seven attackers died that territory.”
France made an unprec- identified, came as French State John Kerry hinted at night — three near the na- French Defense Minister
tional stadium, three inside Jean-Yves Le Drian said all
the Bataclan concert hall 27 of France’s EU partners
and one at a restaurant responded positively.
nearby. A team of gunmen “Every country said: I am
also opened fire at night- going to assist, I am going
spots in one of Paris’ trendi- to help,” Drian said.
est neighborhoods. Arriving for talks in Brus-
However, French officials sels, Greek Defense Minis-
told The Associated Press ter Panagiotis Kammenos
on Tuesday that an analy- told reporters that the Paris
sis of the attacks showed attacks were a game-
that one person directly in- changer for the bloc. “This
volved in them was unac- is Sept. 11 for Europe,” he
counted for. The three offi- said. Paris police said 16
cials, who spoke on condi- people had been arrested
tion of anonymity because in connection to the dead-
they were not authorized ly attacks, and police have
to provide details about carried out 104 raids since
the ongoing investigation, a state of emergency was
said the second fugitive declared Saturday.q
Germany-Netherlands match called off
shortly before kickoff on fears of terror
CIARAN FAHEY ence, said no explosives the German football fed-
had been found by then, eration, Reinhard Rauball,
Associated Press and no arrests had been said the German team
made. was about five kilometers
HANNOVER, Germa- Pistorius said there was away from the stadium
no confirmation of rumors when he called and told
ny (AP) — The friendly soc- that an explosive device them to turn around.
was placed in an ambu- Rauball also told two
cer game between Ger- lance or another vehicle Dutch ministers and the
inside or outside the sta- country’s ambassador of
many and the Netherlands dium. the threat and the deci-
Federal Interior Minister sion to cancel the game.
was canceled at short Thomas de Maiziere told “It’s a sad day for German
the same news confer- football,” Rauball said.
notice due to the serious ence that indications of a Rauball added that the
planned attack became German players had left
threat of an attack at the stronger as the match ap- Hannover by late evening
proached, and that the through various means,
stadium on Tuesday. game was called off at his and that the Dutch team
recommendation. was flying out.
“We had concrete evi- De Maiziere said he could Police shut down parts of
give few details because the main Hannover train
dence that someone he needed to protect the station and several sub-
source of information, and way stations while search-
wanted to set off an ex- because “part of these ing the area around the
answers would upset the stadium. A jazz concert
plosive device in the sta- population.” at which around 900 con-
One of two caretaker cert-goers were expected
dium,” Hannover police presidents in charge of was also cancelled.q
chief Volker Kluwe told
German TV.
Referring to another bomb
threat about an hour be-
forehand that turned out
to be a false alarm, Kluwe
said, “After the first object
turned out to be harmless,
we got a tip that had to be
taken seriously that an at-
tack was being planned.”
Lower Saxony Interior Min-
ister Boris Pistorius, speak-
ing at a late news confer-
