Brothers sought in French attack were on US no-fly list
Source: AP-Excite
By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG and KEN DILANIAN
PARIS (AP) 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 traveled to Yemen. It was unclear whether he was there to join up with extremist groups such as al-Qaida.
The details emerged as French authorities conducted an all-out manhunt for the Kouachi brothers Cherif, 32, and Said, 34 in the terror attack Wednesday that killed 12 people at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly that lampooned radical Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.
They were identified as suspects after the older brother's ID card was found in the getaway car, authorities said.
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This photo provided by The Paris Police Prefecture Thursday, Jan.8, 2015 shows the suspects Cherif, left, and Said Kouachi in the newspaper attack along with a plea for witnesses. Police hunted Thursday for two heavily armed men, one with possible links to al-Qaida, in the methodical killing of 12 people at a satirical newspaper that caricatured the Prophet Muhammed. France began a day of national mourning for what its president called "an act of exceptional barbarism. (AP Photo/Prefecture de Police de Paris)
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BainsBane
(53,003 posts)Why he wasn't in jail, I have no idea.
JDDavis
(725 posts)He had been convicted of helping fellow jihaadists get to Iraq to fight against for "the cause".
Here's my source.
The Real Reason Charlie Hebdo Was A Target for Terror
This country does a lot of things wrong in regard to terrorism, but that guy wouldn't have been walking free here. You don't get over "the cause" in 18 months.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)France wasn't on board with the invasion, so I would not have expected them to go after Iraqi dissidents with much gusto.
I read these brothers were Algerian, though. If it was a few decades earlier, and they had been fighting against the French occupation of Algeria, then you can bet the French government would have locked them up and thrown away the key.
Well, they probably would have killed them.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)(Why did our "No Fly List" not pick up the older brother when he was already under watch from the FBI. Yet it was said a "mispelling of his name" allowed him to go back and forth to Chechnia where he was reportedly "Radicalized." With our great NSA why are these people allowed to fly back and forth while ordinary Americans are being searched and their belongings restricted and monitored in our Airports? Why did French and International Intelligence not FLAG These Two Brothers?)
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Brothers veered violently off track
his story was written by Jenna Russell, Jenn Abelson, Patricia Wen, Michael Rezendes, and David Filipov of the Globe Staff.
The two young brothers from Cambridge seemed to be on promising paths, one a scholarship student at college, the other fighting for a national title in amateur boxing.
And then, apparently with little warning, they veered violently off track, deep into the darkness, setting off deadly bombs, authorities are convinced, at one of Bostons most iconic and joyful events.
To those who knew them, the apparent transformation of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 ethnic Chechens, born in the former Soviet territory now known as Kyrgyzstan and transplanted to a working-class Inman Square neighborhood seemed almost inconceivable.
But as friends and neighbors pieced together recollections of the terrorism suspects and their family, a picture emerged of an older brother who seemed to grow increasingly religious and radical and who may have drawn his more easygoing younger brother into a secret plot of violence and hatred.
I used to warn Dzhokhar that Tamerlan was up to no good, Zaur Tsarnaev, who identified himself as a 26-year-old cousin, said in a phone interview from Makhachkala, Russia, where the brothers briefly lived. [Tamerlan] was always getting in trouble. He was never happy, never cheering, never smiling. He used to strike his girlfriend. . . . He was not a nice man.
More at.........
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/19/relatives-marathon-bombing-suspects-worried-that-older-brother-was-corrupting-sweet-younger-sibling/UCYHkiP9nfsjAtMjJPWJJL/story.html