Hollande proposes worldwide anti-ISIS strategy

UPDATE: French President François Hollande wants to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a joint strategy to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group.

Hollande said he wanted the talks “to unify our strength and achieve a result that has been too long in coming” and called for “a union of all who can fight this terrorist army in a single coalition.”

The victims of Friday’s attacks are from 19 different countries.

Speaking at a news conference ahead of the G20 economics summit in Antalya, Turkey, Obama said U.S. intelligence officials are sharing what they know about ISIS and other terror groups with European allies. But he denied U.S. officials had any specific knowledge about the attack in Paris before it happened.

He also ruled out a ground campaign against ISIS, saying it would be a mistake.

In a rare joint speech to the French parliament, Hollande asked lawmakers to extend the country’s state of emergency for three months, giving police broad arrest powers and limiting public gatherings, among other things.

ISIS released a propaganda video today praising Friday’s attacks, which left 129 people dead and hundreds injured. The militant group urged Muslims in other countries to carry out similar attacks.

“We congratulate the oppressed Muslims worldwide for this sacred act that our brothers carried out against the enemies of religion,” one fighter says in the video.

OUR EARLIER REPORT (8:35 a.m. EDT): French police launched a series of raids overnight, making arrests and announcing the name of the man believed to be the mastermind behind Friday’s terror attacks in Paris.

Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud was linked to several other thwarted attacks in Paris earlier this year. Friday’s coordinated shooting and bombing attacks left 129 people dead and nearly 400 injured.

While French police conducted 168 raids, detaining nearly two dozen people, Belgian police cordoned off a Brussels neighborhood where one of the surviving attackers is thought to be hiding. Salah Abdeslam, 26, is one of three brothers who participated in the bombings. Police on Saturday arrested him at the Belgian border but let him go, not realizing at the time he might have been involved in the attack.

Today, dozens of heavily armed security teams sealed off part of the Molenbeek neighborhood in Brussels, and bystanders reported hearing several grenades exploding in the area. The raid lasted three hours, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether anyone was arrested. Police nabbed three suspects in Molenbeek on Saturday.

Also on Saturday, French fighter jets launched bombing raids on Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Raqqa, Syria, reportedly destroying a training camp and munitions dump. Security officials believe the orders and plan for the Paris attack came directly from Raqqa. After the raids, ISIS issued a statement mocking the French and calling Paris “the capital of prostitution and obscenity.”

French security officials are downplaying reports that Iraqi intelligence experts warned them about the attack the day before it happened. According to an Iraqi intelligence dispatch obtained by the Associated Press, officials said ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had issued orders to launch gun and bomb attacks and take hostages in countries that are part of the coalition fighting against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. General warnings like that are common and come in “every day,” according to an unnamed French official. But Iraqi officials claim they gave French leaders specific details of this planned attack, noting the bombers were trained in Raqqa and sent back to France as part of a sleeper cell. As many as 24 people were allegedly involved in planning and carrying out the attack.

Today French prosecutors released more details about the attackers who died Friday. Several are French nationals, fueling longstanding fear about radicalization in the country. Samy Amimour, 28, blew himself up in the Bataclan theater, where most of Friday’s victims died. He was targeted in a 2012 terror investigation and placed under judicial supervision. But he disappeared in 2013.

Another suicide bomber, 29-year-old Frenchman Ismael Mostefai, was identified by the print on a severed finger. Security officials flagged him in 2010 for ties to Islamic extremism, but he only had a record of petty crime. Two other bombers were also French but lived in Belgium: Bilal Hadfi, 20, and Brahim Abdeslam, 31.

The only other attacker identified so far is apparently from Syria. His fingerprints match those of a man who entered Greece among the mass wave of migrants fleeing to Europe to escape violence at home. International security officials have warned terrorists might take advantage of lax checks to sneak in with people legitimately seeking asylum.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.