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36. Cartoonists insulting Islam made easy targets for terrorists who were on the No-Fly List for Years.

Thu Jan 8, 2015, 10:47 PM

Jan 2015

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.

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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.

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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.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/suspects-in-charlie-hebdo-shooting-were-on-u-s-no-fly-list-for-years-1.2894432

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The entire world is still paying for Bush and Cheney's illegal war [View all] malaise Jan 2015 OP

So I suppose that whole 1972 murder of the Israeli team at the Berlin Olympics Sopkoviak Jan 2015 #1

That has to do with Israeli occupation of Palestine, which the U.S. supported.... on point Jan 2015 #2

That's why he shouldn't go down that road malaise Jan 2015 #4

Of course, I know that Sopkoviak Jan 2015 #5

Actually Islam & Judiasim generally got on quite well until Israel on point Jan 2015 #6

I'll defer to Dawkins on that subject Sopkoviak Jan 2015 #7

Darryl Dawkins? AngryAmish Jan 2015 #14

Is that what the tweets say? Sopkoviak Jan 2015 #22

Are you saying they were not from Chocolate Thunder, from the Planet Lovetron? AngryAmish Jan 2015 #34

Howard Dean comes to mind on that last one Telcontar Jan 2015 #52

They were criminals, there are criminals everywhere. The problem is when bad leadership gives sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #8

There is a history of human atrocities by many groups long before that day malaise Jan 2015 #3

Fail. Scuba Jan 2015 #9

Says who? Sopkoviak Jan 2015 #21

Why not toss in some Crusades and Inquisitions then, yeah? kydo Jan 2015 #23

There's also a history of Christian atrocities that pre-dates 2001 magical thyme Jan 2015 #25

The berlin olympics were hitler's pre-war olympics. The rhetoric in your posts NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #40

Right, I did mean the Munich Olympics Sopkoviak Jan 2015 #45

the language you're using to call groups of people "animals" is hitleresque. you're the NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #46

And the invasion of Iraq is blamed on the GWOT which is blamed on 9/11 which is blamed on Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #10

Tell Rachel Maddow who mentioned that one of the brothers started recruiting folks malaise Jan 2015 #11

And? What if the Abu Ghraib criminals were motivated by 9/11? Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #12

Well we do know that the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq malaise Jan 2015 #15

You just keep casting the net wider and wider but the fact remains: Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #18

Hey some here have to defend the BFEE no matter what. Rex Jan 2015 #31

It's not a defense of the Iraq invasion. It's noting the fact people will always find Nuclear Unicorn Jan 2015 #32

It's almost comical malaise Jan 2015 #33

"will carry water for a group they hate or claim to" NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #41

LOL! Desperation playing a roll in your post today? Rex Jan 2015 #30

The amount of hate it takes to do what was done in France by polly7 Jan 2015 #13

Good post malaise Jan 2015 #16

Thanks Malaise, and well said. polly7 Jan 2015 #20

I think your point would be stronger leftynyc Jan 2015 #26

I really think you have to go back to 1960-3, when the American CIA collaborated with KingCharlemagne Jan 2015 #42

All they were thinking about madokie Jan 2015 #17

Precisely malaise Jan 2015 #19

and will be for decades.... spanone Jan 2015 #24

That's not where history started The2ndWheel Jan 2015 #27

This message was self-deleted by its author Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #28

The American Catholic League is condemning both the cartoonists and the terrorist. Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #29

I'm not sure any newspaper in the US would have carried any of those cartoons malaise Jan 2015 #35

Cartoonists insulting Islam made easy targets for terrorists who were on the No-Fly List for Years. Octafish Jan 2015 #36

... napkinz Jan 2015 #37

They are the real terrorists and deserve to be prosecuted as such. Initech Jan 2015 #38

kick napkinz Jan 2015 #39

Nice! I was hoping someone would figure out why this is all Bush's fault. n/t hughee99 Jan 2015 #43

The Iraq war part 2 and the deaths of a million people has nothing to do with anything! killbotfactory Jan 2015 #44

The good cause malaise Jan 2015 #47

... napkinz Jan 2015 #48

+1 n/t Jefferson23 Jan 2015 #49

Nailed it malaise Jan 2015 #50

Sad six years later we still haven't figured out how to yeoman6987 Jan 2015 #51

... napkinz Jan 2015 #53