Daily Mail
"Smile of a depraved killer: Shocking video shows sick Paris terror mastermind LAUGHING as he drags the corpses of his Syrian victims behind his truck."
"Smile of a depraved killer: Shocking video shows sick Paris terror mastermind LAUGHING as he drags the corpses of his Syrian victims behind his truck."
- Mastermind behind the Paris massacres is believed to be ISIS executioner and recruiter Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27,
- Vile footage has emerged of Abaaoud toying with bodies of his victims in Syria by dragging them behind his truck
- He is from an area of Brussels known as the 'Jihad capital of Europe' and a 'den of terrorists' because of terror links
- French police are hunting Salah Abdeslam, 26, whose brother Ibrahim was a bomber. Sibling Mohammed in custody
- Anti-terror police held 'getaway driver' Salah on Belgian border in hours after the attack but he was released
- Ahmad Almohammad, 25, believed have joined Bataclan terror squad after sneaking into Europe posed as a migrant
"Abaaoud told an IS propaganda magazine he was arrested in Europe in January preparing a mission to kill civilians and behead policemen. Incredibly, he claims he was not detained.
"‘My name and picture were all over the news yet I was able to stay in their homeland, plan operations against them and leave safely when doing so became necessary,’ he said.
His earlier plot – in January in the eastern Belgian city of Verviers – was thwarted
"when police raided the terrorists’ hideout, killing two suspects.
"Abaaoud was not found and is thought to have been in Turkey or Greece directing the pair by phone.