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The Paris Terrorists And Their Al Qaeda Links

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 10 Januari 2015 | 16.15

The Paris Terrorists And Their Al Qaeda Links

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Multiple armed attacks in the capital city. Hostages taken. Intellectuals slaughtered. "Zionist" institutions targeted. Security forces stretched - and everywhere fear.

Said Kouachi, 34, was known to have travelled to the Yemen in 2011 and to have met Anwar al Awlaki who, at the time, was the most influential al Qaeda leader in the world - and that includes Osama bin Laden.

He was also known to have got weapons training there.

Kouachi was part of a group in Paris known as the Buttes Chaumont - an alliance of violent Islamic radicals who recruited volunteers to fight the American-led operation in Iraq which later plotted to try to break an Algerian terrorist out of a French prison, and has now paralysed the French authorities with hostage-taking operations in two locations.

Awlaki was killed in an American drone strike in September 2011. One of the Kouachi brothers told the victim of one of their car-jackings that their terror campaign was revenge for the killing of Awlaki.

The American-born, Yemen-based al Qaeda leader was the franchise's propaganda chief.

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  1. Gallery: Faces Of Paris Suspects And Victims

    Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is a suspect in the murder of a Paris policewoman on Thursday. She is on the run after her husband Amedy Coulibaly was killed when armed officers brought his kosher supermarket siege to a violent end

Her husband Amedy Coulibaly, 32

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Cherif Kouachi, 32, (pictured) and Said Kouachi, 34, carried out the massacre at magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday

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The brothers took a hostage and were killed when police stormed the building where they were holed up in Dammartin-en-Goele, northwest of Paris. They are orphans who grew up in Rennes before moving to a a Paris council estate. Pictured here is Said Kouachi

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Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, 47, had received death threats in the past and was living under police protection. Charbonnier and his nine colleagues, along with the two policemen killed at Charlie Hebdo

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The Paris Terrorists And Their Al Qaeda Links

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Multiple armed attacks in the capital city. Hostages taken. Intellectuals slaughtered. "Zionist" institutions targeted. Security forces stretched - and everywhere fear.

Said Kouachi, 34, was known to have travelled to the Yemen in 2011 and to have met Anwar al Awlaki who, at the time, was the most influential al Qaeda leader in the world - and that includes Osama bin Laden.

He was also known to have got weapons training there.

Kouachi was part of a group in Paris known as the Buttes Chaumont - an alliance of violent Islamic radicals who recruited volunteers to fight the American-led operation in Iraq which later plotted to try to break an Algerian terrorist out of a French prison, and has now paralysed the French authorities with hostage-taking operations in two locations.

Awlaki was killed in an American drone strike in September 2011. One of the Kouachi brothers told the victim of one of their car-jackings that their terror campaign was revenge for the killing of Awlaki.

The American-born, Yemen-based al Qaeda leader was the franchise's propaganda chief.

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  1. Gallery: Faces Of Paris Suspects And Victims

    Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is a suspect in the murder of a Paris policewoman on Thursday. She is on the run after her husband Amedy Coulibaly was killed when armed officers brought his kosher supermarket siege to a violent end

Her husband Amedy Coulibaly, 32

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Cherif Kouachi, 32, (pictured) and Said Kouachi, 34, carried out the massacre at magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday

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The brothers took a hostage and were killed when police stormed the building where they were holed up in Dammartin-en-Goele, northwest of Paris. They are orphans who grew up in Rennes before moving to a a Paris council estate. Pictured here is Said Kouachi

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Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, 47, had received death threats in the past and was living under police protection. Charbonnier and his nine colleagues, along with the two policemen killed at Charlie Hebdo

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Hayat Boumeddiene Hunted As More Attacks Feared

Police are hunting for the wife of one of the three gunmen who brought three days of terror to France, saying she may be "armed and dangerous".

Hayat Boumeddiene, a suspect in the murder of a Paris policewoman on Thursday, is on the run after her husband Amedy Coulibaly was killed when armed officers brought his kosher supermarket siege to a violent end.

The 26-year-old could hold the key to the ongoing terror investigation, as police admit they may be dealing with a larger extremist cell and authorities brace for more attacks.

Details are emerging of the young woman of Algerian descent and the links between Coulibaly, 32, and the Kouachi brothers, who were killed two days after murdering 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

Boumeddiene reportedly started wearing a burka in May 2009 after meeting Coulibaly and quit her job as a cashier before marrying him in a religious ceremony later that year.

According to French judicial documents, the couple travelled with Cherif Kouachi and his wife in 2010 to central France to visit radical Islamist Djamel Beghal, who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for terror offences.

The pair posed for photos during the visit, taking selfies and a snap of Boumeddiene pointing a crossbow at the camera.

Interviewed that year by counter-terrorism officers over Coulibaly's involvement in an attempt to free Paris bomber Smain Ait Ali Belkacem from jail, she was open about her fanatical views.

According to Le Nouvel Observateur, she refused to condemn al Qaeda attacks, preferring to criticise America's military interventions around the world and the Western media.

The links between the couple and the Kouachis apparently thrived, with Paris prosecutor Francois Molins revealing Boumeddiene and the wife of one of the brothers exchanged more than 500 phone calls in 2014.

A police search of Coulibaly's residence in 2010 turned up a crossbow, 240 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, films and photos of him during a trip to Malaysia, and letters seeking false official documents.

In a police interview that same year, Coulibaly identified Cherif Kouachi as a friend he had met in prison and said they saw each other frequently, according to a transcript of the interview obtained by the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

According to the newspaper, he told the police that people he met in prison used the nickname "Dolly" for him.

He was employed as a temp worker at a Coca-Cola factory and reportedly met then-President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2009.

"I know a lot of criminals because I met heaps of them in detention," he is quoted as telling the police.

Michel Thooris, secretary-general of France's police union, said he did not believe the men behind the Paris attacks were "three people isolated in their little world."

"This could very well be a little cell," he said.

"There are probably more than three people," he added, given that Cherif Kouachi and Coulibaly had had contacts with other jihadist groups in the past.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, speaking in a TV interview late on Friday, also indicated authorities are bracing for the possibility of new attacks.

"We are facing a major challenge" and "very determined individuals," he said.

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Charlie Hebdo: Al Qaeda Threatens More Attacks

Charlie Hebdo: Al Qaeda Threatens More Attacks

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By Ian Woods, Senior Correspondent, in Dammartin-en-Goele

Al Qaeda has threatened France with more terror attacks after 17 people were killed at Charlie Hebdo's offices and at a Jewish supermarket.

The warning came as President Francois Hollande admitted the threats "weren't over" and police hunting a female suspect suggested there could be a larger terrorist cell planning further atrocities.  

A sharia official from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Harith al Nadhari, said in a video: "It is better for you to stop your aggression against the Muslims, so perhaps you will live safely.

"If you refuse but to wage war, then wait for the glad tiding." 

AQAP has claimed it directed brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi in the attack on Charlie Hebdo "as revenge for the honour" of the Prophet Mohammed.

The United States has also warned Americans to beware "terrorist actions and violence" all over the world following the deaths in Paris.

The gunman killed by police at a kosher supermarket in Paris has told how he "co-ordinated" with the Charlie Hebdo killers and was a member of the Islamic State (IS) group.

Amedy Coulibaly's call to France's BFMTV station emerged after gunfire and explosions marked the violent conclusion to two hostage-takings 30 miles (48km) apart.

Just minutes separated the series of blasts at the Paris store and those that destroyed a warehouse in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the Kouachi brothers were holed up.

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  1. Gallery: Commandos Storm Supermarket

    Commandos stormed the kosher supermarket where a gunman had taken at least six people hostage. Pic: Vantage News

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Charlie Hebdo: Al Qaeda Threatens More Attacks

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By Ian Woods, Senior Correspondent, in Dammartin-en-Goele

Al Qaeda has threatened France with more terror attacks after 17 people were killed at Charlie Hebdo's offices and at a Jewish supermarket.

The warning came as President Francois Hollande admitted the threats "weren't over" and police hunting a female suspect suggested there could be a larger terrorist cell planning further atrocities.  

A sharia official from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Harith al Nadhari, said in a video: "It is better for you to stop your aggression against the Muslims, so perhaps you will live safely.

"If you refuse but to wage war, then wait for the glad tiding." 

AQAP has claimed it directed brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi in the attack on Charlie Hebdo "as revenge for the honour" of the Prophet Mohammed.

The United States has also warned Americans to beware "terrorist actions and violence" all over the world following the deaths in Paris.

The gunman killed by police at a kosher supermarket in Paris has told how he "co-ordinated" with the Charlie Hebdo killers and was a member of the Islamic State (IS) group.

Amedy Coulibaly's call to France's BFMTV station emerged after gunfire and explosions marked the violent conclusion to two hostage-takings 30 miles (48km) apart.

Just minutes separated the series of blasts at the Paris store and those that destroyed a warehouse in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the Kouachi brothers were holed up.

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  1. Gallery: Commandos Storm Supermarket

    Commandos stormed the kosher supermarket where a gunman had taken at least six people hostage. Pic: Vantage News

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Attack Survivors Plan New Million-Copy Edition

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 09 Januari 2015 | 16.15

Survivors of the terrorist attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo are planning to print one million copies of its next edition.

An eight page issue is expected to be released next week - instead of its usual 16-page run of 60,000.

The publication's lawyer said the magazine's staff wanted to carry on.

Charlie Hebdo columnist Dr Patrick Pelloux, emergency doctor, was in tears when he spoke to a French TV channel about the plans.

"I came here to tell you that the paper's going to continue, because they haven't won," he said.

"And that Charb, Cabu, Wolinski, Bernard Maris, Honore, Elsa, Tignous, Moustafa, the bodyguard who was killed who was in charge of our security - they didn't die in vain."

Dr Pelloux was at a meeting near the Charlie Hebdo offices when the attack happened.

He was one of the first responders on the scene, and describing what he saw, he said: "It was horrible. Horrible.

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  1. Gallery: Magazine Victims Identified

    Muslim police officer Ahmed Merabet was killed outside Charlie Hebdo's offices. Video of the attack showed him lying on the ground and begging for mercy as he was shot in the head

Bernard Maris was a journalist and shareholder in Charlie Hebdo

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Paris Attack: From Rapper To Suspected Killer

One of the two brothers suspected of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris had been an aspiring rapper who briefly featured in a TV documentary.

In the footage filmed in 2004, Cherif Kouachi, 32, is seen rapping in English and dressed in jeans, a baggy sweatshirt, and a baseball hat worn backwards.

He and his older brother, 34-year-old Said, are now being hunted by police after they allegedly killed 12 people in the shootings at the offices of the satirical magazine.

How did a man who had apparently been more interested in girls and music than the Koran turn into an alleged killer?

The documentary portrayed Kouachi's abortive attempt to fight in Iraq and it quoted him as saying it was the teachings of a radical Muslim preacher in his Paris neighbourhood that put him on the path to jihad.

Born in eastern Paris to Algerian parents who died when the brothers were still children, Cherif grew up in an orphanage in the western city of Rennes.

He gained a sports teacher diploma, and returned to Paris where he delivered pizzas.

He also had a record for selling drugs and minor theft - but then he met Farid Benyettou, who was a year older, and practised a strict form of Salafism - a movement within Islam.

Benyettou acted as a mentor to several young men in the neighbourhood who attended a mosque in northeastern Paris.

Kouachi began going to prayer classes, watching jihadist videos and grew his beard.

In January 2005, aged 22, he was arrested as a member of a group, which also included Benyettou, that sent young French volunteer fighters to Iraq.

Kouachi's lawyer Vincent Ollivier said at the time of his arrest Kouachi's profile was more "pot-smoker from the projects than an Islamist".

"He smokes, drinks, doesn't sport a beard and has a girlfriend before marriage," Mr Ollivier told the French newspaper Liberation the month after his client was detained.

Kouachi testified during his 2008 trial that Benyettou taught him that suicide bombers could die as martyrs.

And he said he was greatly affected by the abuse of prisoners by US servicemen at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Kouachi was sentenced to three years in prison in 2008, but served only 18 months, at two of France's toughest prisons.

The experience changed him for good, recalled Mr Ollivier: "He wasn't into talking anymore. He wasn't the same."

His body, too, had changed thanks to working out in prison: "A pipsqueak who turned beefy," Mr Ollivier said.

One social worker interviewed in the France 3 documentary recalled that, while in detention awaiting trial, Kouachi began to understand he had been manipulated by Benyettou.

"He realised he had been taken for a ride and gotten tangled up in something that he himself hadn't even fathomed," he said.

But by now it was too late.

After serving his sentence, Kouachi was arrested in 2010, suspected of being part of a group that tried to break an extremist out of prison.

But police had little concrete evidence against him apart from some radical videos and al Qaeda speeches seized during a search of his home. He had also looked at jihadist sites online.

Kouachi was made an "assisted witness" in a case against another man - a special French status that implies suspicion of some implication - before he was entirely dropped from it.

This missed opportunity will likely be cited as France struggles to understand how much knowledge police had of the suspected perpetrator of the Paris attack.

Less is known publicly about Said Kouachi but French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said both were known to intelligence services and were likely being monitored before the Charlie Hebdo shootings.

The two brothers have been on the US no-fly list and terrorism database for years, Homeland Security officials have told US media.


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France Terror: 'Two Dead Amid Hostage Siege'

The Paris terror suspects are holed up at an industrial building near Charles de Gaulle airport and two people have reportedly been killed.

Reports also say that 20 people have been injured and the pair have taken hostages. A conflicting report by Reuters says that one person has been killed.

It follows a car chase on the N2 motorway in which gunshots were fired between the men and police as their stolen car headed towards Paris.

Three helicopters are now hovering over the building in Dammartin-en-Goele near the country's busiest airport.

France's interior minister has confirmed that an operation to detain the suspects is under way.

Armed police are ordering members of the media to leave the area, saying the situation is too dangerous.

The grey Peugot 206 was stolen from the town of Montagny Sainte Felicite this morning between Crepy-en-Valois and Nanteuil-le-Haudoin.

Almost 90,000 terror police across France are involved in the hunt for the men, believed to be behind Wednesday's terror attack in which 12 people died.

More follows...

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  1. Gallery: Huge Manhunt For Paris Killers

    Heavily armed paramilitary forces are working their way through the French countryside as a vast manhunt continues for two brothers accused of kiling 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris. In this image an officer searches in Corcy, northern France

French gendarmes patrol a bridge as they survey the A1 motorway near Survilliers, near Paris. Authorities raised the security alert to the highest possible level in the region of Picardy, to the northeast of Paris

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Day Of Mourning For Terror Attack Victims

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 08 Januari 2015 | 16.15

Day Of Mourning For Terror Attack Victims

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A minute's silence will be held across France to remember the victims of the gun attack at the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

It comes after vigils were held in cities across the globe to mourn the victims of the attack in Paris and show support for freedom of speech.

President Francois Hollande has ordered flags to fly at half-mast for three days. 

After the minute of silence at midday, the bells of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral will sound out across the city.

"Nothing can divide us, nothing should separate us," Mr Hollande said.

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  1. Gallery: Vigils Held For Charlie Hebdo Victims

    Vigils have been held across the world in support of the victims of the Paris terror attack

People lit candles at the Place de la Republique in Paris

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Others held up pens and placards reading "I am Charlie"

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Police officers also gathered in the French eastern city of Strasbourg to pay their respects

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In London, around 2,000 people joined a silent vigil in Trafalgar Square

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Day Of Mourning For Terror Attack Victims

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A minute's silence will be held across France to remember the victims of the gun attack at the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

It comes after vigils were held in cities across the globe to mourn the victims of the attack in Paris and show support for freedom of speech.

President Francois Hollande has ordered flags to fly at half-mast for three days. 

After the minute of silence at midday, the bells of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral will sound out across the city.

"Nothing can divide us, nothing should separate us," Mr Hollande said.

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  1. Gallery: Vigils Held For Charlie Hebdo Victims

    Vigils have been held across the world in support of the victims of the Paris terror attack

People lit candles at the Place de la Republique in Paris

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Others held up pens and placards reading "I am Charlie"

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Police officers also gathered in the French eastern city of Strasbourg to pay their respects

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In London, around 2,000 people joined a silent vigil in Trafalgar Square

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Paris Terror Attack: Two Brothers On The Run

Paris Terror Attack: Two Brothers On The Run

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By Ian Woods, Senior Correspondent, In Paris

A massive manhunt is under way for two suspects in the terror attack on a satirical magazine.

Images have been released of brothers Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, both in their early 30s, who are suspected of being part of the attack that left 12 people dead.

Officials have said the French nationals are linked to a Yemeni terror network.

The youngest of the suspects in the shooting has handed himself in to police after he was named on social media as Hamyd Mourad, 18.

:: Live updates on this story here

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  1. Gallery: Police Carry Out Raid In Reims

    Police have carried out raids in the Croix-Rouge area of the French city of Reims following the massacre at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

They are hunting two men, Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, suspected of carrying out the attack which left 12 people dead

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A police officer aims his weapon during the raid

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French prime minister Manuel Valls said seven people had been arrested in connection with the attacks

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Paris Terror Attack: Two Brothers On The Run

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By Ian Woods, Senior Correspondent, In Paris

A massive manhunt is under way for two suspects in the terror attack on a satirical magazine.

Images have been released of brothers Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, both in their early 30s, who are suspected of being part of the attack that left 12 people dead.

Officials have said the French nationals are linked to a Yemeni terror network.

The youngest of the suspects in the shooting has handed himself in to police after he was named on social media as Hamyd Mourad, 18.

:: Live updates on this story here

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  1. Gallery: Police Carry Out Raid In Reims

    Police have carried out raids in the Croix-Rouge area of the French city of Reims following the massacre at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

They are hunting two men, Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, suspected of carrying out the attack which left 12 people dead

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A police officer aims his weapon during the raid

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French prime minister Manuel Valls said seven people had been arrested in connection with the attacks

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