Iraq Warned of Attacks Before Paris Assault

The Associated Press discovered that the Senior Iraqi intelligence officials alerted and notified individuals from the U.S. led coalition battling the Islamic State group of imminent assault by the militant organization only one day before last week's fatal assaults in Paris killed 129 individuals.

Intelligence from Iraq sent a dispatch stating that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (group's leader) had requested an assault on coalition nations battling against them in Iraq and Syria, and in addition on Iran and Russia, through bombings or different attacks in the days ahead.

The dispatch said the Iraqis had no particular information on when or where the assault would happen, and a senior French security authority told the AP that French intelligence always gets this sort of communication.

Without remarking particularly on the Iraqi cautioning, a senior intelligence official from the U.S. stated he didn't know about any threat data sent to Western governments that was sufficiently particular to have upset the Paris assaults.

Six senior Iraqi authorities affirmed the data in the dispatch, a duplicate of which was gotten by the AP, and four of these officials claimed they also warned France specifically of a probable assault.

Iraqi officials also cited that the Paris attacks seem to have been arranged and planned in Raqqa, Syria, where the assailants were trained particularly for this operation and with the target of sending them to France.

The officials also added that a sleeper cell in France then met with the aggressors after their preparation and assisted them to implement the plan. They said that there were 24 individuals involved in the action; 19 attackers and 5 in charge of planning.

The officials made statements secretly because they are not sanctioned to deliberate the matter in public.

Iraq's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, likewise told writers in Vienna on Sunday that Iraqi intelligence offices had gotten data that few nations would be targeted, including France, the United States and Iran, and had imparted the insight to those nations.