finally,the terroist responsible for paris terror attack, Abdelhamid Abaaoud is dead

Whatever label you ascribe to Abdelhamid Abaaoud, put it in the past tense. Because he won't inflict terror any longer.

The Paris prosecutor's office announced Thursday that the bullet-ridden body found after a raid Wednesday on an apartment building in a northern Paris suburb, was Abaaoud, the Belgian national who orchestrated shootings and bombings that took 129 lives and wounded hundreds more last week.

Authorities had zeroed in on that location in Saint-Denis after picking up phone conversations indicating Abaaoud's relative might be there, a Belgian counterterrorism official said. But while residents of that Paris suburb said they'd seen Abaaoud himself out recently and at a local mosque, authorities didn't know for sure where he was.

It turns out Abaaoud was in that building in Saint-Denis.

Police fired around 5,000 rounds of ammunition in an hour long gun fight with apartment's occupants early Wednesday and used powerful ammunition that spurred a floor to collapse. Five officers suffered slight wounds, while a police dog and two suspected terrorists died.

One was a female suicide bomber and Abaaoud's cousin, according to Belgian state broadcaster RTBF. The

Paris prosecutor's office identified the other as Abaaoud through papillary prints, which include patterns on fingers, palms and the soles of the feet.

Authorities don't know if police killed Abaaoud or he killed himself. Regardless, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said about the Saint-Denis raid, "The target was achieved."

For one, at least one Paris terror suspect, Salah Abdeslam is at large. And the threat from ISIS, which boasted about the attacks and threatened more worldwide, remains very real.

Abdeslam is one of two brothers allegedly involved in Friday's coordinated attacks at bataclan concert hall  outside the French national soccer stadium and at restaurants in Paris. Though he's a French national, he was born in Belgium.