France foils terror strike by man linked to Paris attackers

French officials said Friday they had foiled a terror attack by a suspect who had been convicted in Belgium alongside Abdelhamid Abaaoud, suspected ringleader of November's terror attacks in Paris. French national Reda Kriket, 34, was arrested on Thursday in Argenteuil, northwest of Paris, and police uncovered a small quantity of explosives at his home. Police sources said the suspect had been found guilty in absentia in Brussels in July last year of being part of a network recruiting jihadists