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OFFICIALS IDENTIFY THREE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS IN FRENCH ATTACK

Posted on | January 7, 2015 | 25 Comments

Three French-born Muslims — Said Kouachi, 34, Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Hamyd Mourad, 18 — have been identified as the terrorists whose rampage in Paris killed 12 and wounded 11 others:

After a long day of rapidly changing information, U.S. counterterrorism officials said Wednesday night that they cannot be certain of the status of the three suspects in the Paris attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine. Information from French sources has been contradictory, they said.
Earlier Wednesday, two senior U.S. counterterrorism officials told NBC News that one of the suspects in the attack had been killed and that two others were in custody. However, the officials later said the information that was the basis of that account could not be confirmed.
Authorities earlier identified the three men as Said Kouachi, 34, and Cherif Kouachi, 32, French nationals who are brothers, and Hamyd Mourad, 18. Late Wednesday, French police released photos of the brothers and asked for public help in finding them, and French authorities said the youngest of the three suspects had surrendered to police.
An official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly discuss the investigation told The Associated Press that the men were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network. Cherif Kouachi was convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping funnel fighters to Iraq’s insurgency and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Twelve people were killed in the attack by gunmen, armed with AK-47s, who attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a publication that has enraged Muslims for publishing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
A source familiar with the investigation told NBC News on Wednesday night that two officers who had been assigned to protect Charbonnier for the past several years came down from an upper floor and intercepted the gunmen. Both officers were shot, however, and one died at the scene. The other was wounded and is expected to survive.
The men targeted those magazine employees who had created or published cartoons showing Muhammad — asking for their victims by name, the source said. They executed editor and cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier, popularly known as Charb; Bernard Maris, a Bank of France economist who was a columnist for the magazine; and three cartoonists.

Uncertainty about the status of these suspects — which of them are in custody, whether one has been killed — should be cleared up within a few hours. It is astonishing that one of these monsters was previously convicted on a terror-related charge, yet served only 18 months in prison.




 

Category: France, Islam, Terrorism

Comments

25 Responses to “OFFICIALS IDENTIFY THREE ISLAMIC TERRORISTS IN FRENCH ATTACK”

  1. UPDATED: MUSLIM TERRORISTS ATTACK MAGAZINE OFFICE IN PARIS, KILL 12; AL-QAEDA IN YEMEN? : The Other McCain
    January 7th, 2015 @ 11:44 pm

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  2. Good Stuff
    January 7th, 2015 @ 11:54 pm

    Prediction for 2015 – the spring tide will turn

    An army of shadows has been amassed. This Shadow Army has one goal: to find and kill all the Pirate Lords who rule over the Seven Seas. But the soothsayer Tia Dalma has other plans for the Lords and cannot allow them to be destroyed. With few options at her disposal, she calls upon the one man who can turn the tide—Captain Jack Sparrow.

  3. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    January 8th, 2015 @ 12:05 am

    I hope they are captured or dead as some have reported earlier. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-magazine-attack/confusion-french-hunt-magazine-attack-suspects-n281761

  4. M. Thompson
    January 8th, 2015 @ 12:14 am

    Times like this make it easy to think of doom and gloom.

  5. Matt_SE
    January 8th, 2015 @ 12:28 am

    What France needs is a good old-fashioned Crusade.
    Or barring that, just a regular ethnic cleansing.

  6. Shawny
    January 8th, 2015 @ 12:59 am

    What really astounds is how the murderers themselves proudly announce who they are (identifying the Islamic terrorist group) and why they are there (to kill those who have slandered the prophet)……..while their defenders come out of the woodwork from everywhere, denying and denouncing any possible connection with the “religion of peace”. So, where’s the global war on “workplace violence” then? Because it’s killing people.

  7. Zohydro
    January 8th, 2015 @ 1:16 am

    Another Charles Martel!

  8. Shawny
    January 8th, 2015 @ 1:19 am

    We already have “Islamic mini states” in several of our own states…….and just like Communism, we already know the death and destruction which follows.
    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/7/french-islamist-mini-states-grow-into-problem-out-/

  9. Zohydro
    January 8th, 2015 @ 1:28 am

    I hear that many leftie media sources are pixilating out images of the blessed St Muhammad in their reporting of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons that these people died for…

    I understand this rag leans far left and also lampoons other religions, but the left-wing media isn’t altering these other images in their coverage… Hook-nosed Jew, no prob!

  10. Shawny
    January 8th, 2015 @ 1:37 am

    Yes, but times like this also raise global awareness and anger. If 12 were murdered for such small infraction as ridicule or even a different interpretation of the same koran, then we must take a stand because there is no place safe for infidels.

  11. Shawny
    January 8th, 2015 @ 1:57 am

    Excellent response to the term “moderate muslims”.

  12. Fail Burton
    January 8th, 2015 @ 2:24 am

    “This is a war on women in gaming waged by a group of sexist monsters. If you are not a horrible human being, get out of #gamergate now.” – Anita Sarkeesian

  13. Jeanette Victoria
    January 8th, 2015 @ 9:17 am

    Did you see Mia Farrow dreads a backlash against all Muslims. The seer idiocy of these lefties is simply boggling

  14. Adobe_Walls
    January 8th, 2015 @ 9:39 am

    As someone commented over at Stephen Green’s blog ”Europeans are pacifists until their not”. If the European governing institutions refuse to get a handle on this, at some point the people will be compelled to do it for them. While they’re at it they may just as well clean up a few other problems.

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  16. McGehee
    January 8th, 2015 @ 10:26 am

    When jihadis crash another jetliner into, say, the Statue of Liberty in violent counter-reaction to our noticing that nearly all terrorist acts are committed by jihadis, we will have the answer at last to the 9/11 question, “Why do they hate us?”

    The answer being, because they monstrous followers of a monstrous pretender to godhood.

  17. Quartermaster
    January 8th, 2015 @ 10:34 am

    If she hasn’t learned that the geeks don’t care what she thinks, she will eventually learn.

  18. Adobe_Walls
    January 8th, 2015 @ 10:34 am

    And that’s just the preamble.

  19. trangbang68
    January 8th, 2015 @ 10:39 am

    while Mia was weeping over kittens and mistreated monsters her perv hubby was diddling the kids. Another retarded leftist a-hole who should have a pie in the face.

  20. McGehee
    January 8th, 2015 @ 1:21 pm

    Indeed. An all-powerful being that devotes all its attention to avenging petty slights from mere mortals is hardly a god. What are the other options?

  21. Jim R
    January 8th, 2015 @ 6:00 pm

    They are only brave when lampooning people who restrict themselves to a sharply-worded letter to the editor.

  22. Jim R
    January 8th, 2015 @ 6:03 pm

    Honestly, I dread all Muslims paying a penalty for the monstrous acts of a few villains. But that shouldn’t stay our hand from stamping the villains out.

  23. theoldsargesays
    January 8th, 2015 @ 6:38 pm

    Marine Le Pen perhaps?

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