国际英语新闻:France Hunts IS Accomplices, Fearing Fresh Attacks

PARIS—New video has emerged of some of Friday night's bloodbath in Paris, in which the Islamic State claimed responsibility for multiple coordinated terrorist attacks that killed at least 129 people and wounded 352.

Both pieces of video were taken outside the Batcalan concert hall, where the terrorists killed at least 89 people attending a rock concert.

Police were seen caught in a gunbattle with some of the terrorists, with several of the officers taking cover.

The other pictures were taken with a cellphone in an alley behind the concert hall. People could be seen pouring out of a back exit, some limping away wounded, others carrying bodies and the injured. Screams were audible.

French President Francois Hollande has called what happened Friday night an "act of war" against his country.

Six sites across Paris were attacked, including restaurants and a football stadium. Seven terrorists, working in teams, were killed, but it was not clear whether there might be more.

A French counterterrorism official said authorities were still trying to find out whether the attackers who died in the assault were French residents and whether they had accomplices still waiting to strike. Security was stepped up to guard against further violence.

The White House said President Barack Obama huddled with his national security team Saturday before leaving for the G-20 summit in Turkey. It said Obama and his aides had seen no intelligence contradicting French assertions that the Islamic State group was behind the Paris attacks. There was no specific threat to the United States at this time, officials said.

Also Saturday, police in Belgium arrested several people during raids in a Brussels neighborhood. The Belgian prosecutor's office said a car rented in Belgium was found near the Batcalan concert hall in Paris, where gunmen massacred audience members during a rock show.

And in Washington, the Pentagon said a senior IS leader had been killed in an airstrike Friday in Libya. Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al Zubaydi, was an Iraqi national and longtime al-Qaida operative. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the action "demonstrates we will go after ISIL leaders wherever they operate."

France singled out

In its claim of responsibility, Islamic State lashed out at countries fighting its attempt to establish a caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

An IS message posted online Saturday said the Paris attacks were a response to the airstrikes the United States and its allies have been launching against its fighters in Iraq and Syria for more than a year. The message said France and its supporters "will remain at the top of the list of targets of the Islamic State."

The claim of responsibility appeared in Arabic and French. It was not immediately possible to confirm its authenticity, but terrorism experts did not dispute the claim's validity.

"The stench of death will not leave their noses," IS said of France's leaders, "as long as they remain at the forefront of the Crusaders' campaign, dare to curse our prophet, boast of a war with Islam in France, and strike Muslims in the lands of the caliphate with warplanes that were of no use to them in the streets and rotten alleys of Paris."

'Triumph over this barbarity'

People across France woke up Saturday to a nationwide state of emergency. Hollande, who called off his trip to Turkey for the G-20 meeting, asked Paris residents to stay inside Saturday, and he declared three days of national mourning.

Vowing to hunt down the attackers, Hollande said, "France will triumph over this barbarity." He called an emergency Cabinet meeting and mobilized France's security forces at the "highest levels."

Hollande also ordered France's borders closed — an uNPRecedented act in 21st-century Europe. However, the main airport remained open and trains were still running.