Homeland Security singled out mastermind of Paris attacks as a security threat six months ago and predicted ISIS attack on Western cities
Homeland Security document published in May predicted major attacks
It analysed foiled attack in Belgium and warned of similar hits in future
ISIS ‘has developed capability to launch more complex ops in the West’
It also singles out man believed to be mastermind behind Paris attacks
Abdelhamid Abaaoud may have been arrested in raid in Paris Wednesday
By SARA MALM
DailyMail.com
18 November 2015
U.S. Homeland Security had predicted possible major ISIS attacks against Western cities six months ago, even singling out the man believed to be the brains behind Friday’s attack in Paris.
The ominous premonitions were made in an intelligence assessment published by the Department of Homeland Security’s Intelligence & Analysis directorate in partnership with the FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center in May this year.
It name-checks Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the 27-year-old Belgian believed to be the mastermind of the attacks, and one of the suspects targeted in an early-morning raid in a Parisian suburb Wednesday.
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