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Cherif Kouachi,
a suspect in the Charlie Hebdo slaughter, visited Yemen in 2011 and French authorities were aware of his contacts with terrorist organizations in Yemen and Syria, Molins said at a press conference.
• The
government of Yemen has launched an investigation into a possible al
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula link to the Charlie Hebdo magazine
attack, Mohammed Albasha, Yemen's spokesman in Washington, tweeted
Friday.
• Al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula has claimed responsibility for orchestrating the deadly
terrorist attack on the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, the founder of
the magazine The Intercept, Jeremy Scahill, told CNN. CNN has not independently confirmed this claim.
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Four hostages were killed and 15 survived in the standoff between an
armed terrorist and police at a Paris kosher grocery store on Friday,
according to Israeli government sources who characterized a phone
conversation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
French President François Hollande.
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U.S. President Barack Obama said he wants the people of France to know
that the United States "stands with you today, stands with you tomorrow"
after this week's terror. He told a crowd in Tennessee that "we stand
for freedom and hope and dignity of all human beings, (and) that's what
Paris stands for."
• The FBI and U.S.
Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin to law enforcement
across the United States discussing the Paris terrorist attack this week
and the sophistication of the tactics, a U.S. law enforcement source
told CNN. The bulletin says the attacks demonstrated "a degree of
sophistication and training traditionally not seen in recent small armed
attacks," the official said.
• A man
claiming to be Amedy Coulibaly, the suspected hostage-taker at the Paris
grocery store, told CNN affiliate BFMTV that he belonged to the
Islamist militant group ISIS. CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the recording.
Cherif Kouachi
