Brothers Cherif Kouachi (left), 32, & Said Kouachi (right), 34, both
from Paris,
have been identified as the men who stormed into the office of French
satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo yesterday and killed 12 people,
including two police officers. A third suspect, 18 year old Hamyd
Mourad, who didn't fire any shorts, surrendered to police late last
night after seeing his name circulating on social media. The two
brothers, who are said to have been trained in Yemen as assassins, are
still at large.
One of the suspects, Cherif Kouachi & 6 others were arrested and
sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for terrorism in Paris in May 2008.
All seven men were accused of sending
about a dozen young Frenchmen to join Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader
of Al Qaeda in Iraq, after funneling them through radical religious
establishments in Syria and Egypt. French authorities believed Kouachi
had been planning to go to Syria for training in 2005.
They shot a police officer at point blank range as they fled the Charlie Hebdo office yesterday
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