Chad’s Morning Brief: Terrorism in Paris

Details are still emerging from Friday's terror attacks in Paris. The Chad Hasty Show airs 8:30-11am on 790AM KFYO.

Terrorism in Paris

Details are still emerging from the deadly terror attacks in Paris on Friday. According to the New York Times, authorities are still searching for suspects and one of the dead terrorist posed as a refugee from Syria.

The investigation into the Paris terrorist attacks unfurled across Europe on Sunday, as the authorities sought a suspected eighth assailant who might have fled after taking part in the three-hour massacre, which killed at least 129 people.

A French official who was briefed on the investigation but was not authorized to speak publicly said the authorities were looking for a man from the Paris region. Officials had initially described eight attackers, but on Saturday night said that only seven attackers had died — six by blowing themselves up and one in a shootout with police.

The carefully coordinated attacks on Friday night, which President François Hollande says are the work of the Islamic State, increasingly appear to have involved extensive planning, sophisticated weapons and people from several nations.

Crucial, if sparse, details about four of the attackers came into view on Sunday.

One attacker — nationality not yet known — evidently posed as a Syrian migrant. The Serbian newspaper Blic published a photograph of a passport page that identified its holder as Ahmad al-Mohammad, 25, a native of Idlib, Syria. He passed through the Greek island of Leros on Oct. 3 and the Serbian border town of Presevo on Oct. 7, officials in those countries said. It was not clear whether the passport was authentic; the civil war that has sent millions of Syrians fleeing and fueled the rise of the Islamic State has also created a large black market for forged Syrian passports.

At least three other attackers were French citizens. Two had been living in the Brussels area, including one in the community of Molenbeek, according to the Belgian authorities. The third was Ismaël Omar Mostefaï, 29, a native of Courcouronnes, France, who had been living in Chartres, 60 miles southwest of Paris, and who, along with two other gunmen, killed 89 people at theBataclan concert hall.

As more and more details come out, one thing is clear, we should all be concerned. Islamic terrorism will continue to target the so-called "soft targets". We should also be concerned that one of the attackers posed as a refugee from Syria.

The United States and European countries should rethink their decisions to bring in these refugees. It is obvious that not all of them are looking for a better life. This was known before the attacks of Friday night, but now they are even more real.

The President must do more to stop ISIS. It's not enough to just pray for Paris or to use a hashtag on Twitter. We must do more. Islamic terrorism must be defeated.