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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