NEW YORK TIMES: PARIS — President François Hollandecalled the terrorist attacks that killed 127 people in Paris on Friday night an “act of war,” and blamed the slaughter on the Islamic State.
“It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh, against France,” Mr. Hollande said from the Élysée Palace, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. “It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish.”
Mr. Hollande did not specify what intelligence the authorities had gathered to established the Islamic State’s involvement… (more)
EDITOR: We applaud LNLP’s coverage of the Paris tragedy by running the same account from the New York Times as appeared in its earlier edition, delivered to our area. The above is the a later article appearing at 7:00 AM on Saturday morning
