French police raid suspected hideout of terror ringleader

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.

Phone taps, surveillance and witness accounts led investigators to conclude that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris, might be holed up in Saint-Denis, the very suburb where the violence …