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Colin Randall on the words we use to lie to ourselves
Investigations and arrests continue in Europe as authorities hunt down suspected accomplices in the Paris attack that killed 130 people on November 13.
In the area of Brussels where several of the Paris attackers grew up, the often heavy-handed official response to radicalisation is helping to fuel division further, writes Colin Randall.
Colin Randall writes how cartoons in children's newspapers are helping French schoolchildren understand the terror events in Paris
Police sources said Moroccan intelligence had helped put French investigators on the trail of the Belgian-Moroccan militant.
Eight people were also arrested during the police raid, launched before dawn at a flat in a quiet working-class district of Saint-Denis, three kilometres from the Stade de France, one of the locations attacked on Friday.
Investigators in France and Germany carried out more raids and arrests on Tuesday in the hunt for those involved in the Paris attacks.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud's ISIL links emerged after Charlie Hebdo attacks in January.
Fugitive Abdeslam Salah is one of three brothers from Belgium who carried out shootings and bombings that killed 132.
Security of officials say ISIL is likely to be planning more mass casualty attacks like the ones that killed 129 and wounded more than 350 on Friday.
Extremists have little difficulty in finding grievances, historic or current, to justify carnage against innocent and usually easy targets, writes Colin Randall.
Extremist groups often jump at the chance to own up to terrorist incidents in the propaganda game against their enemies, but few of those claims can be substantiated by evidence, rendering such strategies futile in the long run.
Before and after his meeting with the Egyptian president, the British prime minister said it was “more likely than not” that a bomb caused Sunday’s disaster in the Sinai.
