PARIS - French President
Francois Hollande promised to destroy the Islamic State group on Monday after
its slaughters in Paris, promising tough new anti-terror measures at home and strengthened
bombing of Syria.
France
and Belgium performed dozens of raids on alleged extremists as the manhunt
continued for an eighth terrorists, including in a known radical hotspot in
Brussels where some of the attackers are thought to have lived.
Describing
the coordinated attacks that killed 129 people as "acts of war,"
Hollande urged a global fightback to crush IS and said he would hold talks with
his US and Russian counterparts on a new offensive.
Friday s
"acts of war... were decided and planned in Syria, prepared and organized
in Belgium (and) committed on our soil with French complicity," Hollande
told an extraordinary meeting of both houses of parliament in Versailles.
"The
need to destroy Daesh (IS) ... concerns the entire international
community," he told lawmakers, who burst into an emotional rendition of
the Marseillaise national anthem after his speech.
Hollande
said the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle would be deployed to the eastern
Mediterranean to "triple our capacity to take action" against IS in
Syria.
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