Iraq warned France, Iran, U.S. of looming terror attacks: FM

PanARMENIAN.Net - A day after the devastating terror attacks in Paris, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said his country’s intelligence services had warned governments of three countries, including France about the terror attacks, RT reports.

“Iraqi intelligence sources have obtained information, suggesting that mainly European countries will be targeted, specifically France, as well as the United States and Iran,” Ibrahim al-Jaafari said on Saturday, November 14, on the sidelines of Vienna negotiations seeking to put an end to the war in Syria.

Al-Jaafari did not name a certain terrorist organization, but he urged a global response to the Islamic State, which is currently controlling large areas of Iraq and Syria.

The video with the Iraqi Foreign Minister’s comments on the terror attacks in France has been published on the Al-Jaafari personal website (in Arabic).

Gunmen and bombers attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium at locations across Paris on Friday, November 13 killing at least 130 people in a deadly rampage that a shaken President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack.

A Paris city hall official said four gunmen systematically slaughtered at least 87 young people attending a rock concert at the Bataclan music hall. Anti-terrorist commandos eventually launched an assault on the building. The gunmen detonated explosive belts and dozens of shocked survivors were rescued.

Some 40 more people were killed in five other attacks in the Paris region, the city hall official said, including an apparent double suicide bombing outside the national stadium, where Hollande and the German foreign minister were watching a friendly soccer international.