Two brothers believed behind Wednesday's attack on the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie...

1. Charlie Hebdo Suspects Killed, Market Shooter Dead
Two brothers believed behind Wednesday's attack on the offices of French satirical newspaper
Charlie Hebdo were killed on Friday, Agence France Presse reported, culminating a dramatic day in
which France was shaken by two simultaneous hostage crises.
Police cornered brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi on Friday inside a printing house in the town of
Dammartin-en-Goele near Charles de Gaulle International Airport, where the suspects had been
holed up since Friday morning.
A hostage taken by the brothers in Dammartin-en-Goele was released before the siege. An employee
at the printing house who was hiding in the building's cafeteria was freed by police after the raid.
The Associated Press said the brothers told police negotiators they wanted to die as martyrs.
A government source told Reuters that the Kouachis were killed after stepping out of the building
and opening fire. The brothers had a loaded M82 rocket launcher, two Kalashnikov assault rifles and
two automatic pistols, according to Paris prosecutor Francois Molins.
Police also raided a kosher supermarket in Paris, where a gunman identified as Amedy Coulibaly
opened fire and took several people hostage. Molins said the gunman killed four people when he
entered the supermarket. Four more were injured, officials said. An Israeli official said the police
raid freed 15 hostages, according to The Associated Press. The gunman himself was killed in the
police assault. Coulibaly was found with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a Skorpion military pistol,
according to Molins.

2. Police forces storm the Hyper Cacher kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris,
France on January 9, 2015.
According to The Associated Press, Coulibaly had earlier threatened to hurt the hostages if police
raided the building where the Kouachi brothers were holed up.
Police released a photo of Coulibaly and a woman named Hayat Boumedienne, who is believed to be
his accomplice. As of early Saturday, French police are still looking for Boumedienne. She had been
interviewed by anti-terrorist police in 2010, and told police she had visited the radical Islamist
Djamel Beghal, Le Monde reported.
Coulibaly is also believed to be a suspect in yesterday's killing of a policewoman on the southern
edge of Paris. Several news outlets reported Friday that Coulibaly had a history of crime and
violence.
Police told AP that Coulibaly appeared to know Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi. The three men are
believed to have been members of the same Paris jihadist cell that sent French fighters to Iraq a
decade ago, a police source told Reuters. According to France's L'Obs, Coulibaly spent time with
Cherif Kouachi when they were both in prison in Fleury-Mérogis in 2005 and 2006. The wife of
Kouachi exchanged 500 phone calls with the girlfriend of Coulibaly, Molins said.
Coulibaly was sentenced in 2010 for his part in an effort to free Islamist militant Smain Ali Belkacem
from jail, Reuters reported. The BBC noted that the two Kouachi brothers were also named in
connection to the attack, but weren't charged because of a lack of evidence.
French television channel BFMTV published an edited version of two interviews their staff
conducted on Friday with men who claimed to be Cherif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly.
The man who claimed to be Cherif Kouachi told a journalist at the channel that he was sent by Al
Qaeda in Yemen. "We are the defenders of the prophet," he added. The caller who said he was

3. Amedy Coulibaly contacted BFMTV in the afternoon as the hostage crisis in the supermarket was
ongoing. He said he belonged to the Islamic State and had coordinated with the Kouachi brothers.
Police officers launch an assault Friday as smoke rises from a building in Dammartin-en-Goele,
northeast of Paris, where two brothers suspected of killing 12 people in an Islamist attack on French
satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo held one person hostage as police cornered the gunmen. (JOEL
SAGET/AFP/Getty Images)
On Wednesday, two masked and heavily armed gunmen stormed the offices of Charlie Hebdo in
Paris while the staff was in an editorial meeting, killing 10 journalists and two policemen. Several
others were injured in the attack. Witnesses told police that one of the gunmen shouted, "We have
avenged the prophet. We killed Charlie Hebdo."
Hours after the attack, French authorities identified three suspects: Hamyd Mourad, Said Kouachi
and Cherif Kouachi.
Mourad turned himself in to authorities at a police station about 145 miles northeast of Paris on
Wednesday night, saying he had seen his own name circulating on social media. Friends of Mourad

4. told French media that he was in school at the time of the attack.
Cherif Kouachi, 32, was convicted in 2008 for his involvement in a Paris-based cell that trafficked
French Muslims to fight in Iraq, and he served 18 months of a three-year sentence.
U.S. and European sources close to the investigation said on Thursday they believe Said Kouachi had
previously traveled to Yemen to train with the al Qaeda affiliate in that country.
The Associated Press reported on Friday that a member of the al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen said the
group had directed the attack against Charlie Hebdo. In a statement in English provided to the AP,
the member said "the leadership of AQAP directed the operations and they have chosen their target
carefully."
Police forces storm the Hyper Cacher kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris,
France on January 9, 2015.
The deaths of Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers came at the end of a tense day in France. Schools
in the neighborhood of the kosher market were evacuated and authorities had ordered shops in a
part of the Marais neighborhood to close. The highway around Paris was closed as well.
French President Francois Hollande addressed the nation in a televised speech on Friday evening.
The president lauded the police who participated in the operations. "I want to tell them we are proud
of you," Hollande said.
The president called the hostage crisis in Vincennes an anti-Semitic attack, and called on the
country to remain united.
Hollande will participate in a unity march in the capital Paris on Sunday and has invited several
heads of state to join him. British Prime Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister Matteo
Renzi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have confirmed their attendance.

5. U.S. President Barack Obama spoke on the terrorist incidents, saying, "We're hopeful the immediate
threat is now resolved."
"In the streets of Paris, the world has seen once again what terrorists stand for," Obama said. "They
have nothing to offer but hatred and human suffering."
A screengrab taken from an AFP TV video shows a general view of members of the French police
special forces launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris,
on January 9, 2015.
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A pro-Israel rally set for January 11 in Amsterdam was "postponed because of the current situation
in Paris," the organizers Holland4Israel announced. A new date for the event was not given.
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Paris prosecutor Francois Molins revealed more details of the siege that killed the Kouachi brothers
and Amedy Coulibaly, the Telegraph reports.
- The brothers had a loaded M82 rocket launcher, two Kalashnikov machine guns and two automatic
pistols.
- Coulibaly had a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a Skorpion military pistol.
"On the body of one of the terrorists, the demining teams also found a grenade that had been
positioned as a trap," Molins said.
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6. French police continued to search for Hayat Boumeddiene, a 26-year-old woman who is suspected of
being an accomplice in the Paris attacks, ITV reports.
As of early Saturday morning, Boumeddiene is believed to still be on the run. She is a suspect in the
killing of female police officer in Paris on Thursday, and is thought to have been the girlfriend of
Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed by police on Friday.
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Hacktivist group Anonymous released a video in which it states that it will shut down jihadist
websites to avenge the Charlie Hebdo attack.
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Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said that the Kouachi brothers had spoken on the phone more than
500 times with Amedy Coulibaly and his girlfriend Hayat Boumedienne, prior to the Paris attacks,
the Guardian reports.
Both the Kouach brothers and Coulibaly were killed in dual sieges on Friday.
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France's National Gendarmerie released footage of its special forces raiding the printing house in
Dammartin-en-Goele where the two Charlie Hebdo attack suspects were holding a person hostage.
The National Gendarmerie also released a picture of the hostage, with their face blurred, being led
to safety after the raid. Both of the suspects were killed.
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??Yemen's Spokesperson in Washington Mohammed Albasha writes on Twitter that Yemen has
launched an investigation into possible connections between Al Qaeda's branch in the country, and
the attacks in France.
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Al Qaeda's Yemen branch released an audio statement on the attacks in France, after a member of
the group told the Associated Press they had "directed" the assault on Charlie Hebdo.
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Soon after, the branch's senior cleric Sheikh Harith al-Nadhari issued a recording on the group's
Twitter feed commenting on the "blessed raid on Paris." He denounced the "filthy" French and called
them "the heads of infidelity who insult the prophets." He praised the "hero mujahedeen" who he
said "taught them a lesson and the limits of freedom of speech."
Al-Nadhari stopped short of directly claiming responsibility for the attack, but added, "How can we
not fight those who hurt our prophet, slandered our religion and fought the faithful."

7. Addressing the French, he said, "It better for you to stop striking Muslims so you can live in peace.
But if you only wish for war, then rejoice, you will not enjoy peace as long as you wage war on God
and his prophets and fight Muslims."
It was not immediately clear why al-Nadhari did not outright said al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula
was behind the attack. The member told the AP that the group as delaying its official declaration of
responsibility for "security reasons."
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The Intercept published a statement claiming responsibility for the attack on Charlie Hebdo's office,
provided by a source in Al Qaeda's Yemen branch.
The statement said the group, called Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, "directed the operation, and
they have chosen their target carefully as a revenge for the honor of Prophet [Muhammad]."
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More from the Associated Press:
A member of al-Qaida's branch in Yemen says the group directed the attack against the French
satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris "as revenge for the honor" of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
The member on Friday provided to The Associated Press a statement in English saying "the
leadership of AQAP directed the operations and they have chosen their target carefully."
He says the attack was in line with warnings from the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to the
West about "the consequences of the persistence in the blasphemy against Muslim sanctities"
He said the group has delayed its declaration of responsibility for "security reasons."
He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the group's regulations.
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French TV station France 2 broadcast striking footage of the police raid that ended the siege at a
kosher grocery store in Paris.
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France's Jewish community was already on high alert after the Wednesday attack on Charlie Hebdo,
which left at least 12 dead.
Chlomik Zenouda of the National Bureau for Vigilance against anti-Semitism (BNVCA) told JTA on
Thursday that many Jewish institutions and neighborhoods with large Jewish populations were
witnessing an increase in police protection, and volunteers were taking it upon themselves to
provide security at synagogues and Jewish schools.
These concerns existed long before Wednesday's attack, however, Director of AJC Paris Simone
Rodan-Benzaquen noted in an email to The Huffington Post. Referring to the 2012 attack on a Jewish
school in Toulouse and the ongoing incidents of violence against Jews and synagogues in Paris,

8. Rodan-Benzaquen said "the threat has been present and palpable."
Read the full story on The Huffington Post here.
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BBC cameraman Jack Garland posted an image of parents picking up their children from school in
Porte de Vincennes after the lockdown was lifted.
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Jerusalem Post's Michael Wilner reports that The Grand Synagogue of Paris is shut this evening.
France's Le Monde reported earlier that the synagogue had been evacuated.
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A screengrab taken from an AFP TV video shows a general view of members of the French police
special forces launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris,
on January 9, 2015.
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President Barack Obama spoke on the terrorist incidents in Paris this week, saying "we're hopeful
the immediate threat is now resolved."
"In the streets of Paris, the world has seen once again what terrorists stand for," Obama said. "They
have nothing to offer but hatred and human suffering."
"We stand for freedom, hope, and the dignity of all human beings and that's what the city of Paris

9. represents to the world," Obama added.
Obama said the U.S. has been in close touch with the French government throughout this week, and
he has directed law enforcement and counterintelligence officials to "provide whatever support our
ally needs in confronting this challenge."
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French President Francois Hollande decried "racism and anti-Semitism" in the wake of the deadly
siege of a kosher grocery store in Paris in his televised address.
The president also stressed that the actions of the hostage takers "have nothing to do with Islam."
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A hashtag expressing solidarity for the Jewish population of France is gathering traction on Twitter.
#JeSuisJuif began trending shortly after it was revealed a second siege was unfolding at a Jewish
supermarket in Paris.
Read more here.
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French President Francois Hollande addressed the nation in a televised speech on Friday evening,
affirming that four people were killed in the standoff in the kosher supermarket in Paris.
Hollande confirmed he will participate in a march in Paris on Sunday and said that several European
heads of state will also travel to the French capital.
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Earlier today, reporters of the French channel BMFTV spoke to two men who claimed to be Cherif
Kouachi, one of the Charlie Hebdo gunmen, and Amedy Coulibaly, the man who took several people
hostage in a kosher supermarket in Paris on Friday.
The man who claimed to be Cherif Kouachi spoke to a journalist at the channel this morning, saying
he was sent by Al Qaeda in Yemen. "We are the defenders of the Prophet," he added.
The caller who purported to be Amedy Coulibaly contacted BFMTV in the afternoon as the hostage
crisis in the supermarket was ongoing. He said he belonged to the Islamic State group and had
coordinated with the Kouachi brothers.
Authorities have not confirmed whether the callers were in fact Coulibaly and Kouachi.
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Several European leaders have accepted French President Hollande's invitation to attend a rally in
Paris on Sunday to support the French people.
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10. Amedy Coulibaly, the 32-year-old gunman killed by police after killing four people at a Kosher
market on the eastern edge of Paris, has a history of ties to violence, according to reports.
The Huffington Post explains what we know about Coulibaly's background here.
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The FBI writes on Twitter that French police are looking for Hayat Boumedienne, named earlier as
the suspected accomplice of gunman Amedy Coulibaly.
Coulibaly was killed when security forces stormed the kosher grocery store where he was holding
several people hostage.
Boumedienne's whereabouts on Friday are as yet unclear.
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The Associated Press reports that two police officials confirmed the supermarket hostage taker has
died, and identified him as Amedy Coulibaly. Coulibay was named earlier by police as a suspect.
The news agency says the police officials confirmed that at least three hostages have died. Agence
France Presse and Reuters have reported that four were killed.
French newspaper Le Monde reported earlier that their sources confirmed Coulibaly was the
gunman.