As we are trying to uncover what really happened in Paris this past Friday, we still leave a lot of moral and ethical questions in wraps. Several people have been taken into custody this past Friday and two of the suicide bombers have been identified.
In a recent statement, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks, calling Paris a “capital of crusaders” and a capital of “prostitution and vice.” They warn of more attacks if France continues their “crusader campaign,” in which France responded by carrying out more Airstrikes in Raqqa, Syria.
As of time of this article being written, there is still a state of emergency in France and borders are still closed. 1,500 troops have been deployed to secure possible future target locations.
Several assailants have been identified, including Samy Amimour, who is allegedly responsible for the Bataclan massacre; and Belgian-born Salah Abdeslam, who is being searched for across Europe and is warned to be dangerous. Amimour was stopped at the French-Belgian border early Saturday morning after the attacks, but was allowed to pass after checking his ID.
During the airstrikes in Raqqa, an unnamed number of ISIS fighters were killed but did not kill any civilians, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Twelve French aircraft, including ten fighter jets, dropped 20 bombs on a command and control center, a jihadi recruitment center, munitions depot and ISIS training camp in Raqqa, France’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. Raqqa is the de facto capital of ISIS’ “caliphate.”
Before the Attacks commenced, Iraq shared intelligence that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ordered an attack on countries on any country that is fighting ISIS, but is never specified where the attacks would take place. The current death count for the Paris attacks is 129 people dead and 352 wounded, 99 out of those 352 injured persons are still in critical condition. Two out of the seven terrorists have been identified.
