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Omaha Steve

(99,071 posts)
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 08:43 PM Jan 2015

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.

FULL story at link.



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)

Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150108/eu--france-attack-suspects-b2dc31d68c.html

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Brothers sought in French attack were on US no-fly list (Original Post) Omaha Steve Jan 2015 OP
One had already been convicted of terrorism BainsBane Jan 2015 #1
He only spent 18 months in prison JDDavis Jan 2015 #2
You know BainsBane Jan 2015 #3
The invasion of Iraq was illegal. Ash_F Jan 2015 #5
Reminded me of the Tsarnaev Brothers in the Boston Bombings...Why were they allowed back into USA? KoKo Jan 2015 #4
 

JDDavis

(725 posts)
2. He only spent 18 months in prison
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 08:59 PM
Jan 2015

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

BainsBane

(53,003 posts)
3. You know
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 09:02 PM
Jan 2015

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)
5. The invasion of Iraq was illegal.
Fri Jan 9, 2015, 12:51 AM
Jan 2015

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)
4. Reminded me of the Tsarnaev Brothers in the Boston Bombings...Why were they allowed back into USA?
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 09:48 PM
Jan 2015

(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 Boston’s 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



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