‘ COMMANDO’ GROUP WAS PLANNING ATTACK ON BEHALF OF ISIL, POLICE SAY

Five men arrested this week in two French cities were planning a terror attack in France as early as next week and were receiving their orders from an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant member based in Iraq or Syria, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said Friday.

The five were arrested on Sunday, four of them in the eastern city of Strasbourg, and one in Marseille.

Molins said the Strasbourg “commando” of four was plotting a terror act on Dec. 1 but that investigators haven’t yet determined which was “the specific chosen target.”

He said the five men were “given guidance remotely” from an ISIL member based in Iraq or Syria and that they had a “clear will to find and to identify targets to commit an act in the very short term”.