Last week authorities in Belgium arrested Salah Abdeslam, the only remaining/surviving fugitive involved in carrying out the November 2015 Paris terror attacks. Abdeslam may have driven several suicide bombers to the Stade de France and is known to have rented a car used by the attackers who murdered 89 people at Paris’ Bataclan theater; it’s also long been thought that he abandoned plans to detonate a suicide bomb on the night of Nov. 13 himself. The Wall Street Journal reports Monday that Abdeslam has confirmed as much to investigators:
According to Paris prosecutors, Mr. Abdeslam told Belgian investigators that he had intended to blow himself up on Nov. 13 with other suicide bombers at the Stade de France soccer stadium. But he said he changed his plans at the last moment.
Abdeslam apparently also added that he was, like, totally going to get around to actually attacking people himself at any second now:
Mr. Reynders, the foreign minister, said Mr. Abdeslam told prosecutors he had been ready to carry out follow-up attacks.
Sure, buddy. Sure you were.
