FRENCH authorities have identified the suspected mastermind behind the Black Friday terrorism attacks as Abdel Hamid Abaaoud.

Authorities believe the Belgian man was linked to thwarted attacks on a Paris-bound high-speed train and a church.

The news comes as Islamic State released a new video warning countries taking part in air strikes on Syria that they will suffer the same fate as France, Reuters reported.

The video features IS fighters celebrating the attack and “promising more yet to come.”

“You have started, we are revenging for Allah, for Mohammad the prophet and for Muslims’ blood,” the first speaker says.

The second speaker, named as Al-Gharib Algerian, says: “To France, who killed and destroyed millions of Muslims ages ago and has history full of blood, I want to tell you now: Muslims are awake and the jihadist are on your land and have already set it on fire.”

He then added a warning to European nations: “We are coming with explosions and you will not be able to prevent us because today we are stronger than before.”

Seven people are currently in custody in Belgium suspected of links to the attacks and an international arrest warrant has been issued for a Belgian-born Frenchman believed involved in the attacks and who is still at large.

Two more suicide bombers involved in the deadly attacks have also been identified, th​e Paris​ prosecutor’s office says.

Prosecutors said that one suicide bomber who blew himself up in the Bataclan music hall Friday night was Samy Amimour, a 28-year-old Frenchman charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012.

He had been placed under judicial supervision ​after he attempted to get to Yemen to fight ​but dropped off the radar and was the subject of an international arrest warrant.

A suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the national soccer stadium was found with a Syrian passport with the name Ahmad Al Mohammad, a 25-year-old born in Idlib.

The prosecutor’s office says fingerprints from the attacker match those of someone who passed through Greece in October.

Suspects arrested in 150 anti-terror raids

A rocket launcher is among a massive cache of weapons seized by French police after they carried out 150 anti-terror raids on suspected Islamists across the country.

The mammoth swoop by hundreds of armed police came amid fears of potential terrorist sleeper cells after the horrific attacks in Paris. More than a dozen people are still in custody.

Thirteen raids were launched in the southeastern French city of Lyon, leading to five arrests and the seizure of a rocket launcher, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, bulletproof vests and handguns, local police said.

Police also carried out raids in Toulouse in southwestern France, where at least three people were arrested, according to the local prosecutor’s office.

In the Alpine city of Grenoble, according to the local newspaper Le Dauphine Libere, at least half a dozen people were arrested and guns and money were seized.

A fourth suicide bomber from the Bataclan concert hall has also been identified, French media are reporting. He was reportedly a young man, called Samy, born in Paris in 1987.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls reaffirmed “we are at war” and warned new terror attacks were being planned in France and in other European countries following the carnage in Paris that killed 132 people.

“We know that operations were being prepared and are still being prepared, not only against France but other European countries too,” Mr Valls said.

He warned more attacks could hit “in the coming days, in the coming weeks”.

France would be living with the threat of terror attacks “for a long time”, he said.

Upcoming UN climate talks in Paris will focus on the negotiations, with “concerts and festive events” linked to the conference “without a doubt cancelled”, he said.

British PM David Cameron has also revealed seven UK terror attacks had been ‘stopped’ in last six months.

This comes amid revelations that senior Iraqi intelligence officials warned members of the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State of imminent assaults by the militant organisation just one day before Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris killed 132 people.

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The Iraqis had no specific details on when or where the attack would take place, and a senior French security officialsaid that intelligence gets this kind of communication “all the time” and “every day.”

Suicide bombers named

As France responded to the deadly Paris attacks by dropping 20 bombs on Islamic State’s strongholds in Syria, authorities named two more of the suicide bombers.

French police reportedly let one of the suspects slip through their fingers just hours after the attacks.

A judicial source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the 20-year-old Frenchman police identified as one of the three suicide bombers to strike at the Stade de France arena was Bilal Hadfi.

A 31-year-old identified by police as the suicide bomber who detonated his explosive vest on Boulevard Voltaire was named as Brahim Abdeslam, the source said. Brahim Abdeslam is the older brother of 26-year-old Saleh Abdeslam, 26, who is currently the subject of an international manhunt.

A third suicide bomber, Ismael Mostefai, 29, had already been named by police, after being identified through remains found at the Bataclan music hall, another of the six separate attack sites across Paris. The death toll from the Paris attacks stands at 132, with 352 wounded.

A fourth suicide bomber from the Bataclan concert hall has also been identified, French media are reporting. He was reportedly a young man, called Samy, born in Paris in 1987.

British intelligence thwarts terror plots

British security services have foiled around seven terror attacks since June with fighters returning from Syria posing a growing threat, Prime Minister David Cameron said.

“Our security and intelligence services have stopped something like seven attacks in the last six months, albeit attacks planned on a smaller scale” than Friday’s attacks in Paris, he told BBC Radio 4 from Turkey.

“We have been aware of these cells operating in Syria that are radicalising people in our own countries, potentially sending people back to carry out attacks,” he added.

“It was the sort of thing we were warned about.” Cameron also said there were “hopeful signs” from Saturday’s talks in Vienna on Syria that progress was being made on how to deal with the Islamic State (IS).

“You can’t deal with so-called Islamic State unless you get a political settlement in Syria that enables you then to permanently degrade and destroy that organisation,” he said.

France strikes back

French warplanes have pounded the Islamic State group’s de facto Syrian capital Raqqa, destroying a command post and a training camp.

In its first air strike against IS since the string of deadly Paris attacks claimed by the jihadist group, 12 warplanes, including 10 fighter bombers, dropped 20 bombs on the targets.

“The first target destroyed was used by Daesh (another Arabic acronym for IS) as a command post, jihadist recruitment centre and arms and munitions depot. The second held a terrorist training camp,” a French defence ministry statement said on Sunday.

The planes left from Jordan and the United Arab Emirates and were conducted in co-ordination with American forces, the ministry said.

“There were at least 36 explosions overnight in Raqa city, some caused by air strikes and some by weapons and explosives detonating after being hit,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“The blasts shook the entire city. There were strikes on both the north and south of Raqa,”

French President Francois Hollande on Saturday blamed the Islamic State group for the gun and suicide attacks, calling them an “act of war”.

Police let terrorist go

It has emerged French police freed one of the suspects hours after the attacks.

Four French officials have told Associated Press that police questioned and released the suspect, Salah Abdeslam.

The questioning came when police pulled over a car near the Belgian border, hours after authorities had already identified Abdeslam as the renter of a Volkswagen Polo that was abandoned at the scene of an attack.

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Abdeslam is now the focus of an international manhunt. One of his brothers detonated a suicide vest in central Paris and another was ultimately detained in Belgium.

He was one of three people in a car stopped by police on Saturday morning, hours after the attacks that left at least 129 dead, the officials said.

Three French police officials and a top French security official confirmed that officers stopped Abdeslam and checked his ID and then let him go.

The officials spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to publicly disclose details of the investigation.

Terrorist on the run

Police Nationale said troops are scouring Europe for Salah Abdeslam, 26, with reports he is one of three brothers who helped execute Friday night’s deadly siege.

A senior European intelligence official told the Washington Post that Salah and his brother Ibrahim, Frenchmen who lived in Belgium, were both suspects.

Ibrahim is believed to have died after blowing himself up at the Bataclan concert hall, while Salah was reportedly a logistics co-ordinator who rented one of the cars used in the attack.

According to Le Monde, the names of the two brothers were on rental contracts for a Volkswagen Polo and a Seat with Belgian numberplates, which were used during the attacks. The third brother has not been named.

Seven terrorists were reportedly killed on Friday night.

A third attacker has been named as Bilal Hadfi, as Serbian newspaper Blic shared a passport photo of a fourth suspected terrorist, 25-year-old Ahmed Almuhamed, who reportedly blew himself up at the Bataclan concert hall, where 89 people died.

The passport was found at the scene and investigators are working to verify its authenticity.

Almuhamed, identified by Serbian authorities only by his initials AA, came into Europe through the Greek island of Leros, where he was processed on October 3, Greek officials said. He was among 70 refugees who arrived on a small vessel from Turkey. Serbian authorities said the same man had been registered at a border crossing from Macedonia into Serbia a few days later.

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“One of the suspected terrorists, AA, who is of interest to the French security agencies, was registered on the Presevo border crossing on October 7 this year, where he formally sought asylum,” the Serbian interior ministry said in a statement. “Checks have confirmed that his details match those of the person who on October 3 was identified in Greece. There was no Interpol warrant issued against this person.”

Greece is the main entry point in Europe for thousands of Syrian refugees. European security forces have long feared that IS militants could hide among them.

A Croatian interior ministry spokeswoman said the man was registered in the country’s Opatovac refugee camp on October 8 and from there he crossed into Hungary and then Austria.

“There was no (police) record about him at the time of registration and there was no reason for us to stop him in any way,” she said.

A Greek newspaper, Protothema, said Almuhamed was travelling with a second man, Mohammed Almuhamed, and published pictures showing their purported travel documents.

Police have already identified one gunman who blew himself up at the Bataclan concert hall as 29-year-old Paris native Omar Ismail Mostefai. He has never been linked to terrorism.

Officials identified him by a severed finger found in the rubble of the Bataclan. His father and 34-year-old brother have been taken into custody and their homes are being searched.

Paris on edge

Chaos erupted at a memorial overnight when the sound of firecrackers sent crowds into panic.

Hundreds fled the vigil at the Place de Republique fearing for their lives after hearing the firecrackers, which were mistaken for gunfire.

A French security official said someone had reached out to police in the plaza out of panic, and when officers arrived with weapons drawn, the crowd dispersed in fear.

The official called it a moment of collective panic. The official had no information of any threats to the area.

Close by, panic broke out near a small Cambodian restaurant and a bar that were the scenes of shooting on Friday night and police were seen running with guns drawn.

“People were shouting ‘move, move’ and some people were saying the heard gunshots,” said Martin Duuachat, according to The Guardian.

Today co-host Karl Stefanovic was caught up in the mass panic while preparing to report live from the scene.

Meanwhile, a separate false alarm prompted panic in Marais, in central Paris.

Arrests in Belgium linked to terrorist attacks

A Belgian official says seven people have been detained in Belgium linked to the Paris attacks.

Belgian prosecutors co-operating with their French counterparts said two assailants killed in Friday’s attacks were Frenchmen who had lived in Brussels and that two cars tied to the attacks found in Paris were rented in Belgium.

At least one of the dead assailants and five of the people arrested in raids on Saturday had spent time in the poor immigrant Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek, officials said.

The results of the probe so far highlight how Molenbeek has for two decades lodged Islamist extremists who have fought or supported wars in Algeria, Afghanistan and Bosnia as well as the current ones in Syria and Iraq, analyst Claude Moniquet told AFP.

France to close radical mosques

The French government is looking to close down radical mosques Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

Liberation, a French-language newspaper reported that Cazeneuve said the Government would use its emergency powers to dissolve or close mosques that preached hatred and that the process had already begun.

Injured Aussie on the mend

As Australian victim Emma Parkinson woke from the anaesthetic after surgery for a bullet wound to the hip, the first thing that greeted her was Australian ambassador Stephen Brady with a telephone in hand and her mum on the other end of the line.

Mr Brady has revealed how at the behest of the 19-year-old’s family he was at her bedside keeping a vigil until she woke from the anaesthetic and could hear the voices of loved ones on the other side of the world.

Emma was at the Bataclan concert hall watching a band with friends when the gunmen wearing their bomb vests burst through the doors and began firing.

Mr Brady revealed she had survived the first spray of bullets by dropping to the ground but in a lull in the shooting she jumped up to make an escape and was shot in the hip.

The bullet passed through her but doctors were keen to clean the wound fully.

Mr Brady said she remembered very little of the incident and certainly was unaware of the extent of the terrorist attacks in the hall and at other sites across the city.

The ambassador brought her up to speed with some details but then handed the phone over and excused himself from the room.

“It was something I could do under the circumstances, a 19-year-old Tasmanian goes out on a Friday night expecting to have a fun night and ends up in a French hospital with a bullet wound and the nightmare of what she had to see,” Mr Brady told News Corp.

“The mother told me she had been unable to get hold of her daughter and there was a level of extreme anxiety and I said ‘look I will find her and I will go see her’. I gave her mother my word I would be by her bed then connected the call.

“It was a very emotional and lovely call. I excused myself after 40 seconds as the tears of happiness were streaming down. My impression was Emma comes from a very loving family. Her mum told her she was on the front of the Hobart Mercury and it was at that point Emma was starting to get a sense of the level of interest in Australian then when (foreign minister) Julie Bishop came on the line and then Malcolm Turnbull came on I thought for a young woman she was quite something, remarkable and she conducted herself so well, she was very real.

“The wonderful thing about being Australian at this time, there was such level of sincerity and authenticity to the calls and she could feel that and responded accordingly. There are not too many countries when you stop and think about it that that would happen.”

The Governor-general Peter Cosgrove had also rung Emma’s mother to see what he could do.

Emma’s mother was flying in last night and expected to be by her daughter’s side later today.

Turnbull expresses condolences

Malcolm Turnbull has expressed Australia’s condolences to France’s foreign minister.

The PM met with Laurent Fabius in the Turkish resort city of Antalya ahead of the G20 summit.

“The people of France have our deepest sympathy and our resolute solidarity in the face of this shocking terrorist attack in Paris,” Mr Turnbull said.

Mr Fabius is filling in for French president Francois Hollande at the summit.

“It’s an attack on our freedom as much as it was an attack on yours,” Mr Turnbull said. “We are utterly shoulder to shoulder with you in the fight against terrorism.”

Mr Fabius said the terrorists were trying to divide his country against Muslims who are “not at all terrorists.”

“But they want the majority of the population to equate Muslims to terrorism in order to have some sort of civil war,” he said. “It’s why obviously it’s a very difficult moment. But fortunately we are supported by our friends like you.”

The Grand Mufti of Australia condemned the Paris attacks while warning strategies to deal with the threat of terrorism weren’t working.

“We call upon all people of goodwill to stand against fearmongering and injustice,” Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed said in a statement.