French police raid suspected hideout of terror ringleader
Two extremists killed and seven arrested in pre-dawn assault on Paris suburb of Saint-Denis
Saint-Denis, France
A PRE-DAWN police raid on a pedestrian street in a Paris suburb led to the deaths of two extremists and seven arrests, while a French aircraft carrier headed to the eastern Mediterranean to intensify the bombardment of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) positions in Syria.
"We must annihilate an army that threatens the whole world," President Francois Hollande said after the assault on what authorities believed was the hideout of the architect of last week's violence.
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