WASHINGTON — The Islamic State and the Levant was planning the Paris attacks as far back as 2012, according to new information revealed by Belgian police. But the information about the group’s intentions never made it to authorities in France.
In a report by Het Laatste Nieuws and other Belgian press, authorities in April of 2012 used wiretaps to listen in on conversations at an apartment in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels. Several ISIL operatives directly connected to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the Paris attacks, were in the room.
