Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: And I'm David Greene in Paris this morning, where French authorities conducted a dramatic raid on two apartments in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. There were explosions and then gunfire, and a woman blew herself up with a suicide vest. The perimeter of that area is still sealed off as the day is drawing to a close here in Paris. Nightfall has come. The apparent target of the attack was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who authorities believe planned last Friday's attacks in Paris. Abaaoud originally comes from a neighborhood in Brussels, Belgium, called Molenbeek, which NPR's Peter Kenyon explored for us elsewhere in the program today. In fact, at least one other of the suspects in the attacks also grew up in this neighborhood, which Belgian authorities have targeted as a hotbed of extremism. But today, Muslims from across Brussels are holding a rally in this neighborhood, insisting they are not all extremists. NPR's Peter Kenyon
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