Forensic experts confirmed Thursday the mastermind of the Paris terror attacks, Abdel Hamid Abaaoud, was killed by police in the raid at Saint-Denis earlier this week.
"Ding dong, the witch is dead," is how Fox News pundit Geraldo Rivera put it during an early morning breaking news broadcast.
The Washington Post, citing sources, said Wednesday Abaaoud was killed, but forensics had yet to confirm, as WND reported. Various media reported the scene of the raid was extremely messy, due in large part to a female terrorist suspect blowing herself up as police entered the apartment complex.
The Guardian reported the official statement of death, as put out by the Parquet Du Tribunal, De Grande Instance De Paris: "'Abdel Hamid Abaaoud has just been formally identified, after comparing fingerprints, as having been killed during the raid,' the prosecutor's statement said. 'It was the body we had discovered in the building, riddled with bullets.'"