Senior Iraqi intelligence officials had warned coalition countries of imminent assaults by the IS group just one day before last week’s deadly attacks in Paris killed 129 people. Iraqi intelligence sent a dispatch saying the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had ordered an attack on coalition countries fighting against them in Iraq and Syria, Iran and Russia, “through bombings or assassinations or hostage taking in the coming days.” Six senior Iraqi officials corroborated the information in the dispatch.