• Iraqi Intelligence Warned France of ISIS Attack Day Before Paris Assault - World News - Israel News - Haaretz Israeli News Source
    http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/1.686257

    The dispatch said the Iraqis had no specific details on when or where the attack would take place, and a senior French security official told the AP that French intelligence gets this kind of communication “all the time” and “every day.”

    However, six senior Iraqi officials corroborated the information in the dispatch, a copy of which was obtained by the AP, and four of these intelligence officials said they also warned France specifically of a potential attack. Two officials told the AP that France was warned beforehand of details that French authorities have yet to make public.

    Among them: that the Paris attacks appear to have been planned in Raqqa, Syria — the Islamic State’s de-facto capital — where the attackers were trained specifically for this operation and with the intention of sending them to France.

    The officials also said a sleeper cell in France then met with the attackers after their training and helped them to execute the plan.

    There were 24 people involved in the operation, they said: 19 attackers and five others in charge of logistics and planning.

    The officials all spoke anonymously because they are not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

    The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Saturday for the gun and bomb attacks on a stadium, a concert hall and Paris cafes that also wounded 350 people, 99 of them seriously. Seven of the attackers blew themselves up. Police have been searching intensively for accomplices.

    Iraq’s Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, also told journalists in Vienna on Sunday that Iraqi intelligence agencies had obtained information that some countries would be targeted, including France, the United States and Iran, and had shared the intelligence with those countries.

    • Et selon Mondafrique, le DRS algérien aussi :
      http://www.mondafrique.com/attentats-de-paris-le-drs-algerien-avait-prevenu-la-dgse

      Au cours du mois d’octobre dernier, les services secrets algériens, le DRS, ont transmis une note exhaustive à la DGSE dans laquelle il prévenaient leurs homologues français d’un fort risque d’attentats terroristes dans la région parisienne au niveau des « centres abritant des grands rassemblements de foules ». [...]
      Le DRS a fourni une liste de noms de certains « radicaux » français d’origine algérienne et maghrébine qui sont entrés en contact avec les combattants algériens de Daech. Placés sous surveillance depuis plusieurs mois par les renseignements algériens, ces combattants ont longuement conversé avec des radicaux français qui ont séjourné, pour certains d’entre eux, dans les camps syriens. [...]
      Dans sa note, le DRS avait signalé les agissements suspects de Omar Ismaïl Mostefaï, l’un des kamikazes français du Bataclan dont la radicalisation avait été signalée par les services du contre-espionnage algérien lors de ses séjours successifs en Algérie auprès de sa famille. Le DRS avait aussi demandé dans sa note des échanges d’informations au sujet des réseaux belges qui s’activent énormément pour envoyer des renforts à Daech en Syrie.