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jpak

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Mon Mar 21, 2016, 12:17 PM Mar 2016

Manhunt launched for newly identified Paris attacks suspect Najim Laachraoui

Source: CNN

Brussels, Belgium (CNN)French and Belgian police have launched a manhunt for a newly identified suspect linked to November's Paris terror attacks, as revelations about the depth of networks cultivated by a recently captured fugitive fuel concerns about potential future assaults.

Salah Abdeslam, whose DNA was found on a suicide belt discarded on a Paris street after the November 13 attacks, spent more than four months on the run as Europe's most wanted man before he was arrested in a gunbattle in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek on Friday.

Since his capture, officials have said he was ready to carry out future attacks and was supported by a wide network of associates, and they warned of the possibility of a new wave of ISIS terrorists preparing to carry out further attacks.

In a statement Monday, the Belgian prosecutor's office appealed to the public for sightings of Najim Laachraoui, 24, who has used the alias Soufiane Kayal and traveled with Abdeslam to Budapest, Hungary, in September of last year, the statement said.

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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/21/europe/belgium-appeal-paris-suspect/

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Manhunt launched for newly identified Paris attacks suspect Najim Laachraoui (Original Post) jpak Mar 2016 OP
I hope they can keep Salah safe and let him give lots of info uppityperson Mar 2016 #1
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