Charlie Hebdo suspect said Abu Ghraib torture pics drove him to enlist in Jihad against USA in 2008
Cherif Kouachi was previously known to the authorities, as he was convicted by a French court in 2008 of trying to travel to Iraq to fight in that country’s insurgent movement. Kouachi told the court that he wished to fight the American occupation after viewing images of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison. According to Bloomberg, Kouachi had “alternated between periods of smoking marijuana” and attending the classes of a preacher and jihadi recruiter who was convicted in the same case of running a terrorist recruitment ring. Kouachi, who was 26 at the time of his conviction, told the court that he was relieved that he had been prevented from traveling to Iraq, that he had begun working at a supermarket, and that his main interest was rap music.
SOURCE: Foreign Policy
https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/07/what-we-know-about-the-attack-on-charlie-hebdos-paris-office/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=%2ASituation%20Report&utm_campaign=Sit%20Rep%20January%208%202015
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Americans can be the most sadistic bastards on the face of the earth, and it doesn't take much to make them so..
Not even that, I guess. No motivation.
They are crazed psycho killers bent on destruction!!!! Nothing but a desire to murder!!!!!
Blowback doesn't exist 
Had at least 3 servings of crow that evening. 
He was convicted of trying to go to Iraq. He never made it there and never killed a soul as far as I can see. He seems happy now he didn't go there and commit murder and that he has a job at a supermarket and likes Rap music.. You seem to have jumped the gun on this one. I hope you don't lawyer like that.
least to 1983, when Reagan was selling arms to the Iranians (the arms-for-hostages component of Iran-Contra) while AT THE EXACT SAME TIME dispatching RummyDummy to Baghdad as his 'secret' envoy to re-establish diplomatic relations with Iraq and provide her with military intel about Iranian troop deployments. Oh, yeah, and possibly ink a deal for chemical precursors for chemical weapons.
No biggie, you say, just American capitalism-imperialism at work. But to the people of the Middle East, it appears as if the U.S. was arming and assisting both sides in the brutal Iran-Iraq war. AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME. We may have short memories in this county but I assure you memories in the Middle East are far harder and of far greater duration.
If I, a stupid American, know this shit, you can bet it's common knowledge on the streets of every Middle Eastern capital.
Lest you think I'm imagining things or engaged in wild-eyed CT, here's a little photographic excursion down memory lane to help focus the mind:
one recommends a thread. But your sentiment is still appreciated 
Once, when Grandpa Prescott wrote about what Ike would call the “Military-Intelligence-Congressional Complex.”
In 1959, then-U.S. Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush, wrote back in 1959 to brag, rightfully so, for Boeing, General Electric, Westinghouse, Remington, Chevron and the rest of the war profiteers still hogging at the trough of the U.S. Treasury in the present day in one guise or another:
To Preserve Peace Let’s Show Russians How Strong We Are
By Prescott Bush
U.S. Senator from Connecticut;
member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
The Reader’s Digest July 1959
MAN’S GREATEST danger, it is said, is ignorance. In a very real sense, the Soviet Union’s ignorance of our military strength may be the source of her gravest peril—and ours. Kaiser Wilhelm started World War I because he miscalculated Allied power. Hitler, mistakenly thinking he could blitz the world, launched World War II. Kruschev today lacks firsthand knowledge of our country; he may be given what others think he would like to hear—rather than an objective report on our actual military strength. Although it seems impossible that any sane person could start a war, we would be wise to take no chances.
Why not invite the Soviet high command to the United States for a conducted tour of our military might? We are bringing Russians to see our farms and factories, our scientific laboratories and research centers; we exchange dancers and musicians. Why not have their military leaders over for the most beneficial look of all? Our expressed policy, the aim and purpose of our entire defense system, is to deter the Kremlin from starting a war. What better way to deter than to show?
What we could show is nothing more nor less than the greatest military might ever assembled in the history of the world. If the Soviet high command could see what we have, they should be of our mind—that for them to start war today would be an act of insanity.
We could start in a Pentagon briefing room. There, with maps, globes, films and sound-projection equipment to help illustrate our points, we could give them a good hard look at the distribution of American power. Then we could fly the group to Mountain Home Air Force Base in Montana, where bombers of the Strategic Air Command are on 24-hour alert, many ready to take off within 15 minutes. We could see an awe-inspiring line of B-47’s, any one of which can, in a single mission, deliver explosive power equivalent to that of all the bombs dropped by all sides in World War II. We could invite the commander of the Soviet air force to ride in one of these planes, and see it refueled in the air, thus quietly demonstrating that, while most Soviet bombers would have to fly one-way missions, ours can strike any target in the world and return nonstop.
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The demonstration at SAC should effectively dismiss from Soviet minds any speculation about the possibility of their gaining an advantage from all-out war any time soon. But we must face the fact that in a few years the Russians may be able to zero in our SAC bases with ballistic missiles. To drive this temptation out of their minds, we could show them other deterrents.
CONTINUES…
The Reader’s Digest
July 1959 pp. 25-30
Prescott Bush detailed how Kruschev and the head of the Soviet armed forces be our guest on nuclear submarines, demonstrations of sea- and land-launched ICBMs, operations from aircraft carriers and a cruise aboard the inter-continental strategic bomber, the B-52.
The guy was on to something. You know how much they get for a B-2 these days? Two billion? Each?
Almost forgot. Prescott also discussed the strategic importance of Iraq –
the very same right next door to Iran, the very place the CIA and MI6 had, five years earlier,
replaced a democratically elected government with a despot, the Shah. For the oil, I’d wager.
It’s fortunate for them that we want only peace with justice. Our entire record attests to that. We have no history of aggression, profess no desire for world domination, as do the Communists. Only by their continued menace have we been forced to take these measures for defense.
I ASK, “Why don’t we show the Russians many of these defense measures?” What I would not show them is any self-satisfaction on our part about the future, any slowing-up of plans to produce the new weapons which must inevitably take the place of the old ones. I believe we are in a continuing struggle to keep on top in this business of declaring war. I think that the Russians are never to be underrated. [font color="red"]I also believe that the Communists are master bluffers that they seek to put us off by arrogant threats to Berlin and to the peace of the far Pacific, and, while our people are preoccupied with these threats, they may try to take over Iraq as the Chinese Reds have conquered Tibet.
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So. At least three generations of the Bush Family Evil Empire have had their eyes on Iraq’s oil. Interesting how Prescott mentioned Tibet's destruction by China. How was he to know his namesake would one day become head of the U.S.-China Chamber of Commerce? The article also shows how Prescott boosted the Cold War, way back in ’59. It’s not so odd to think that three generations of crazy petrodollar-loving warmongers would rise to the top echelons of American leadership.
This is exactly what Ike was talking about when he mentioned being on our guard against the “Military-Industrial Complex.” The Bushes and their wealthy supporters from both major political parties may think they're American royalty, but, as you know, KingCharlemagne, all they represent is a multi-generational mob of banksters, gangsters, and traitors.
thing to contemplate!
Thanks for the annotation and duly noted for all future references.
Much obliged.
When Truth Tried to Stop War
Exclusive: The year 2013 is the one-decade anniversary of the U.S. political/media system’s failure to stop a criminal President from launching a war of aggression on Iraq. It was a shameful time when only a few brave individuals, like the U.K.’s Katharine Gun, did the right thing, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern reports.
By Ray McGovern
ConsortiumNews.com, Feb. 1, 2013
Ten years ago, Katharine Gun, then a 28-year-old British intelligence officer, saw an e-mailed memo from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) that confirmed for her in black and white the already widespread suspicion that the U.S. and U.K. were about to launch war against Iraq on false pretenses.
Doing what she could to head off what she considered, correctly, an illegal war of aggression, she printed a copy of the memo and arranged for a friend to give it to the London Observer. “I have always ever followed my conscience,” she said, explaining what drove her to take such a large risk.
Those early months of 2003 were among the worst of times – and not just because the U.S. and U.K. leaders were perverting the post-World War II structure that those same nations designed to stop aggressive wars, but because the vast majority of U.S. and U.K. institutions including the major news organizations and the nations’ legislatures were failing miserably to provide any meaningful check or balance.
The common excuse from politicians, bureaucrats, editors and other opinion leaders was that there was no way the momentum toward war could be stopped, so why take on the career damage that would result from getting in the way. And if Ms. Gun were made of lesser stuff, she might have hidden behind a similar self-serving excuse or found solace in other comforting rationalizations, like the government must know what it’s doing, or what do I, a Mandarin-to-English translator, know about Iraq.
CONTINUED...
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/01/31/when-truth-tried-to-stop-war/
DU was full of brave people in 2003. Almost all opposed Bush and Blair and their illegal, immoral and unnecessary war on Iraq. Lots stated, specifically, that blowback from the immoral, illegal, unnecessary and disastrous invasion and war would only serve to harm innocent people and create new enemies.
And, agree about Blowback... as others have expressed.
by William Blum
"
American leaders) are perhaps not so much immoral as they are amoral. It's not that they take pleasure in causing so much death and suffering. It's that they just don't care ... the same that could be said about a sociopath. As long as the death and suffering advance the agenda of the empire, as long as the right people and the right corporations gain wealth and power and privilege and prestige, as long as the death and suffering aren't happening to them or people close to them ... then they just don't care about it happening to other people, including the American soldiers whom they throw into wars and who come home-the ones who make it back alive-with Agent Orange or Gulf War Syndrome eating away at their bodies. American leaders would not be in the positions they hold if they were bothered by such things."
-- William Blum. Killing Hope
Edited versions
Killing Hope - excerpts from introduction to Original Edition
Angola 1975-1980s
Brazil 1961-1964
Cambodia 1955-1973
Chile 1964-1973
Congo 1960-1964
Cuba 1959-1980s
Dominican Republic 1960-1966
East Timor 1975
El Salvador 1980-1994
Greece 1964-1974
Grenada 1979-1984
Guatemala 1953-1954
Guatemala 1962-1980s
Haiti 1986-1994
Indonesia 1957-1958
Indonesia 1965
Iran 1953
Laos 1957-1973
Nicaragua 1981-1990
Uruguay 1964-1970
Zaire 1975-1978
US government assassination plots since World War II
"It was in the early days of the fighting in Vietnam that a Vietcong officer said to his American prisoner: "You were our heroes after the War. We read American books and saw American films, and a common phrase in those days was 'to be as rich and as wise as an American'. What happened?
An American might have been asked something similar by a Guatemalan, an Indonesian or a Cuban during the ten years previous, or by a Uruguayan, a Chilean or a Greek in the decade subsequent. The remarkable international goodwill and credibility enjoyed by the United States at the close of the Second World War was dissipated country by country, intervention by intervention."
William Blum
Unedited versions
Killing Hope - introduction to Original Edition
Killing Hope - introduction to New Edition
Angola 1975 to 1980s
Bulgaria 1990 / Albania 1991
Cuba 1959-1980s
Ecuador 1960-1963
Haiti 1986-1994
Indonesia 1957-1958
Iraq 1990-1991
Italy 1947-1948
Uruguay 1964-1970
The American Empire: 1992 to present - 2004 edition
SOURCE w/links to details: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/KillingHope_page.html
www.killinghope.org/
Then there's bin Laden and the modern era of terror and the contemporary period, all grotesque and most, if not all, immoral.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaah - not even in their minds. 
Sid
Yeah you two go ahead and keep joking around about the BFEE being fantasy. Not like that hasn't been noticed over the years. And to pretend someone cannot make a valid point at anytime in their lives is about as immature as I've ever seen it here.
Seriously, you and Sid have fun mocking something very important to the rest of us.
I wonder why some posters would?
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You really do know how to pick your sources, don't you octafish of DU?
Do you spend any time learning about the assholes that you bring to DU? Or do you just regurgitate the first link that google gives you when you're looking for something bad to say about Obama.
I mean, it's bad enough when you use anti-immigrant, white-nationalist Republican Paul Craig Roberts as a source, even after being told of his racist opinion and saying that you'd stop reading him. Obviously you've never stopped.
But Wayne Madsen is far beyond even Paul Craig Roberts. Madsen is a far-right conspiracy theorist who, in 2010, ran a series of articles accusing Obama of being gay, and being secretly married to his Pakistani roommate.
Yup. You read that right.
Excuse the link to rense, but you need to be shown just what kind of asshole you're linking to:
http://rense.com/general95/onemanuel.html
You should be fucking ashamed of yourself, octafish, for trying to give legitimacy to filth like Wayne Madsen.
You've really outdone yourself this time.
Sid
PS - jurors, I'll take the hide, if you think it's warranted, but DUers who use right-wing asshole homophobic racist conspiracy theorists need to be called out on that use. And this poster has a long history of not caring what kind of source they use.
Sid
So what if Wayne went off the rails with an article or if he insulted the president? The guy tries, which is a lot more than Corporate Owned Media, CON, or Corporate McPravda. Here are details with which you can learn on DU:
The short version: Back in the day when George W was defendin' Texas from the Air Force of North Vietnam, he met a man by the name of James R Bath. They both were drummed off the flight line for failing to take physical exams -- coincidently, no doubt, right about the same time the government starting testing pilots for illegal drugs 'n' such. Note how the Bush White House redacted a proper noun here and there. Here're two versions of the document:
Now this document shows that the House of bin Laden selected James R Bath to be their official U.S. business agent.
Isn't it something? Why no one in the press corpse ask Bush about this is understandable considering the subject must be off-limits to those without the necessary Top Secret clearance. In our day, they've got the media. Got to keep things fresh, Kardashian, and away from anyone suspecting Capitalism's Invisible Army. Right, SidDithers of DU?
or are you saying you agree or like this article?
THIS is why I say your source sucks...
"Men who have reportedly had sexual relations with Barack Obama
§ Donald Young, TUCC Choir director
§ Larry Sinclair, gay escort
§ Reggie Love, White House presidential assistant and Obama’s “body man”
§ Artur Davis, US Representative from Alabama and gubernatorial candidate
§ Bill Frist, former GOP Senate Majority Leader
§ Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts
The Clear and Present Blackmail Threat"
http://rense.com/general95/onemanuel.html
Plenty of more vomit at the link if anyone has the stomach to see the guy you are promoting here.
Just for shits and giggles?
I know I wouldn't.
But I guess you have your reasons.
Rense is a holocaust denier site.
Why are you pretending you don't know that?
I think writers that write for holocaust denial sites are "turds".
Do you think writers that write for holocaust denial sites are "turds", Octafish of DU?
If not, why?
Thanks for googling!
Like Madsen and Roberts.
Maybe someday you'll tell us?
I, too, am sick and tired of seeing examples of the (far-right) Paranoid Style of American Politics sourced here on DU.
We also know, from the same FBI report, that Poppy heard someone threaten to kill President Kennedy.
So, why did Bush wait until AFTER JFK was assassinated to come foward with the warning?
Here's the document:
Here's a transcript of the text:
TO: SAC, HOUSTON DATE: 11-22-63
FROM: SA GRAHAM W. KITCHEL
SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
JOHN F. KENNEDY
At 1:45 p.m. Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished the following information to writer by long distance telephone call from Tyler, Texas.
BUSH stated that he wanted to be kept confidential but wanted to furnish hearsay that he recalled hearing in recent weeks, the day and source unknown. He stated that one JAMES PARROTT has been talking of killing the President when he comes to Houston.
BUSH stated that PARROTT is possibly a student at the University of Houston and is active in political matters in this area. He stated that he felt Mrs. FAWLEY, telephone number SU 2-5239, or ARLINE SMITH, telephone number JA 9-9194 of the Harris County Republican Party Headquarters would be able to furnish additional information regarding the identity of PARROTT.
BUSH stated that he was proceeding to Dallas, Texas, would remain in the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel and return to his residence on 11-23-63. His office telephone number is CA 2-0395.
# # #
Here's background:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKbushG.htm
Another FBI memo, from a week later, was unearthed just prior to the 1988 election. In it, "Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency" was debriefed by J Edgar Hoover himself about the Pro- and Anti-Castro Cuban communities in Miami. 1988 Presidential Candidate Vice President ex-DCI ex-China legation head George Bush said "It wasn't me." Surprisingly and contrary to longstanding policy, the agency even released the name of another "George Bush" who worked at CIA for six months or so. That guy was surprised to find reporters on his doorstep and told them he was a photo analyst on loan from another government department and he never was debriefed by J Edgar Hoover, let alone for the anything to with the assassination of President Kennedy.
Here's a transcript of the above:
Date: November 29, 1963
To: Director
Bureau of Intelligence and Research
Department of State
From: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Subject: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
NOVEMBER 22, 1963
Our Miami, Florida, Office on November 23, 1963, advised that the Office of Coordinator of Cuban Affairs in Miami advised that the Department of State feels some misguided anti-Castro group might capitalize on the present situation and undertake an unauthorized raid against Cuba, believing that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy might herald a change in U. S. policy, which is not true.
Our sources and informants familiar with Cuban matters in the Miami area advise that the general feeling in the anti-Castro Cuban community is one of stunned disbelief and, even among those who did not entirely agree with the President's policy concerning Cuba, the feeling is that the President's death represents a great loss not only to the U. S. but to all of Latin America. These sources know of no plans for unauthorized action against Cuba.
An informant who has furnished reliable information in the past and who is close to a small pro-Castro group in Miami has advised that these individuals are afraid that the assassination of the President may result in strong repressive measures being taken against them and, although pro-Castro in their feelings, regret the assassination.
The substance of the foregoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by Mr. W. T. Forsyth of this Bureau.
# # #
I do remember that GHWB was head of the CIA when the Church Committee was looking into the CIA assassination programs. He made things all friendly-like and turned what had been a serious hunt for truth under previous DCI Colby into another dog-and-pony show.
And the Church Committee represents the last time our elected representatives worked to reign in the Secret Government agencies. That was 1975.
So there's how George Herbert Walker Bush is tied to the assassination of President Kennedy by a pair of official FBI memos. And one wonders why America is in the shape it's in?
Austerity for the majority and a state of permanent war, where "money trumps peace."
PS: You are most welcome, YoungDemCA! Glad to clear up your smear in post 159!
PPS: Come to think of it, those FBI memos really open up George Herbert Walker Bush for questions. I wonder when the Corporate Owned News will get around to asking him about them?
Why are so many DUers jumping all over Octafish as though he has said or implied that the massacres these brothers did was NOW connected to Abu Ghraib.
The connection to Abu Ghraib is that it was the precipitating factor in turning these guys into jihadis.
Doesn't anyone read the linked articles anymore?
The assumptions around here make DU suck.
Any source-no matter how delusional or paranoid or bigoted-is fair game in showing that the "BFEE" are responsible for everything, from the JFK assassination to 9/11 to the Holocaust to faking the moon landing to chemtrails to crop circles -along with the Rockefellers and Rothschilds, of course. 
Both of these guys had ancestors and cronies in the slave trade.
Baron de Rothschild and Prescott Bush, share a moment and some information, back in the day.
The people who tried to overthrow FDR in 1933 had kids.
And their offspring* and connected cronies in crime are the ones* screwing America now.
What's different today, is we don't have Smedley Butler or FDR to stop them.
* Of course, it's not just a few rich families's offspring who screw the majority today. They've hired help and built up the giant noise machine to continue their work overthrowing the progress FDR and the New Deal brought America for 80 years.
Why would the nation and world's richest people do that? Progress costs money. And they don't want to pay for it, even when they've gained more wealth than all of history put together. Instead, whey continue to work -- legally, through government and lobbyists -- to amass even more, transferring the wealth of the many to themselves.
And instead of an armed mob led by a war hero on a white horse, as planned in 1933, their weapon since Pruneface made his first payment to the Ayatollah has been "Supply Side Economics." To most Americans, that means Trickle-Down.
Rothschild and Freshfields founders’ had links to slavery, papers reveal
By Carola Hoyos
Financial Times
Two of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies, documents seen by the Financial Times have revealed.
Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the banking family’s 19th-century patriarch, and James William Freshfield, founder of Freshfields, the top City law firm, benefited financially from slavery, records from the National Archives show, even though both have often been portrayed as opponents of slavery.
Far from being a matter of distant history, slavery remains a highly contentious issue in the US, where Rothschild and Freshfields are both active.
Companies alleged to have links to past slave injustices have come under pressure to make restitution.
JPMorgan, the investment bank, set up a $5m scholarship fund for black students studying in Louisiana after apologising in 2005 for the company’s historic links to slavery.
CONTINUED (with registration, etc) ...
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7c0f5014-628c-11de-b1c9-00144feabdc0.html
Generation upon generation, knowing only service to power and property.
Kevin Phillips called them a ''multigenerational family of fibbers.''
The Barreling Bushes
Four generations of the dynasty have chased profits through cozy ties with Mideast leaders, spinning webs of conflicts of interest
by Kevin Phillips
Published on Sunday, January 11, 2004 by the Los Angeles Times
EXCERPT...
During these years, Bush's four sons - George W., Jeb, Neil and Marvin - were following in the family footsteps, lining up business deals with Saudi, Kuwaiti and Bahraini moneymen and cozying up to BCCI. The Middle East was becoming a convenient family money spigot.
Eldest son George W. Bush made his first Middle East connection in the late 1970s with James Bath, a Texas businessmen who served as the North American representative for two rich Saudis (and Osama bin Laden relatives) - billionaire Salem bin Laden and banker and BCCI insider Khalid bin Mahfouz. Bath put $50,000 into Bush's 1979 Arbusto oil partnership, probably using Bin Laden-Bin Mahfouz funds.
In the late 1980s, after several failed oil ventures, the future 43rd president let the ailing oil business in which he was a major stockholder and chairman be bought out by another foreign-influenced operation, Harken Energy. The Wall Street Journal commented in 1991, "The mosaic of BCCI connections surrounding Harken Energy may prove nothing more than how ubiquitous the rogue bank's ties were. But the number of BCCI-connected people who had dealings with Harken - all since George W. Bush came on board - likewise raises the question of whether they mask an effort to cozy up to a presidential son."
Other hints of cronyism came in 1990 when inexperienced Harken got a major contract to drill in the Persian Gulf for the government of Bahrain. Time magazine reporters Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne, in their book "The Outlaw Bank," concluded "that Mahfouz, or other BCCI players, must have had a hand in steering the oil-drilling contract to the president's son." The web entangling the Bush presidencies was already being spun.
CONTINUED...
http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kevin_phillips.htm
Of course no one's heard of the BFEE. While they wonder how Saddam got WMDs, Wall Street gets ahead.
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Suspects in Charlie Hebdo shooting were on U.S. no-fly list for years
Said Kouachi's ID card found in 1 getaway car used in shooting
By John-Thor Dahlburg, Jamey Keaten, CBC
The Associated Press Posted: Jan 08, 2015 5:01 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 08, 2015 8:43 PM ET
The two French brothers wanted in the newspaper office bloodbath in Paris were already known to U.S. authorities and had been put on the American no-fly list, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said Thursday.
Another U.S. official said the older brother, Said Kouachi, had travelled to Yemen. Though there is conflicting information about what he did while in Yemen, U.S. and European sources told Reuters he trained with Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula, one of the group's most active affiliates.
SNIP...
They were identified as suspects after the older brother's ID card was found in the getaway car, authorities said.
Witnesses said the gunmen in the attack claimed allegiance to al-Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen.
Both Kouachi brothers — the Paris-born offspring of Algerian parents — were already known to French counterterrorism authorities.
Cherif, a former pizza deliveryman, had appeared in a 2005 French TV documentary on Islamic extremism and was sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2008 for trying to join up with fighters battling in Iraq.
SNIP...
A French security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said that American authorities had shared intelligence with France indicating that Said had travelled to Yemen several years ago for training. French authorities were seeking to verify the information, the official said.
CONTINUED...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/suspects-in-charlie-hebdo-shooting-were-on-u-s-no-fly-list-for-years-1.2894432
other than to have made going to the airport a major pain in the ass for the last 14 years. Wish innocent people didn't have to die to teach me that lesson.
I'm always been worried that Agent Mike was going to plant my name on that NO-FLY after I've let loose one of my especially pissed off DU Rants.
