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12 Dead In Shooting At Paris Satirical Magazine below details

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The escape was caught on Video

 

 

The Terrorists Who Attacked A French Magazine Displayed Professional Training

Gunmen armed with assault rifles shouted "’we have avenged the prophet" and "Allahu Akbar," or God is greatest, as they stormed the headquarters of the magazine that has in the past published irreverent cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed and the emir of the Islamic State.

Just before noon, two gunmen with Kalashnikovs exited a black car and forced an employee of the magazine to let them into the building in central Paris. Once inside, witnesses say that the assailants deliberately targeted journalists, killing the publication’s editor and killing or wounding a number of cartoonists.

Two policemen were also killed in the attack, with video posted online showing the assailants wounding one officer and then executing him in the street as he raised his hands in submission. The attackers then entered a black getaway car and fled the scene before moving to a stolen car. The jihadists are still at large.

 

 REPORT:  2 Suspects In Paris Magazine Shooting Have Been Arrested And One Suspect Is Dead

One suspect is dead and two more arrested after the shooting at the headquarters of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, according to NBC News.

The shooting left 12 people dead including several members of the magazine’s staff. Two gunmen and their driver remain at large.  According to Metro, by Wednesday evening local time, French law enforcement became aware of the names and birth dates of the alleged perpetrators. Metro reported one of the suspects is 34 years old, another is 32, and the third is 18. We don’t yet know which suspect was killed.

AFP reports that, previous to the reported arrestes, an anti-terror operation took place in Reims, a city in northeast France. Reuters reports that one of the suspected shooters is from Reims. Paris Deputy Mayor Patrick Klugman told CNN that police had identified the three men, and that two of them are brothers. He did not reveal their names, but said they are from a suburb outside of Paris. The two older men are reportedly French citizens. Metro reported the younger man is a student whose nationality is unknown and has no fixed address.

Le Point reported that French police were focusing on two suspects whom the magazine described as "French-Algerian." According to Le Point the two men, 32 and 34 years old, returned to France from Syria last summer. According to Le Point, in 2008, one of these men was tied to an Iraqi network in Paris that allegedly encouraged young men to join militants in Iraq. The magazine reported he was also arrested in 2005 as he attempted to travel to Damascus. In addition to the two men, Le Point said police were looking for a suspect who was born in 1996 and has no fixed address.

 

By Dina Spector

Police say that at least 12 people were killed and four were critically injured after two gunmen stormed the Paris headquarters of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.

Here are the key points:

• French President Francois Holland has called the shooting a terrorist attack
• The gunmen are still at large and were armed with a rocket-launcher, according to France24
• Four people killed were well-known cartoonists, including Charlie Hebdo’s editor-in-chief
• Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly, was attacked with a firebomb in November 2011

The French publication was attacked at about 10.30 a.m. GMT (5.30 a.m. ET) by two gunmen wearing masks, who escaped in a vehicle. Graphic photos and video appear to show two shooters escaping from the scene.

 

 

REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

The shooters are still at large. A car used by the shooters was found by police in a neighboorhood with a large immigrant population, The New York Times reports.

A witness to the shooting, Benoit Bringer, told the iTele network "he saw multiple masked men armed with automatic weapons at the newspaper," the AP reports.

Addressing the media, French President Francois Hollande said the deadly shooting was "undoubtedly a terrorist attack" and that other terrorism-related attacks had been prevented in recent weeks. A "manhunt has been launched," Hollande said. 

Police said 20 people were injured, in addition to the four with critical injuries, Bloomberg reports. According to France24, four of the dead were well-known cartoonists: Stephane Charbonnet, Cabu, Tignous, and Wolinski. Charbonnet was the weekly’s editor-in-chief. 

There are unconfirmed reports that the gunmen knew the targeted journalists by name. 

France24 reports that cartoonist Corin Rey told the French weekly Humanite that she let the men inside the building while being held at gunpoint. 

"They shot Wolinski, Cabu … it lasted about five minutes … I took cover under a desk … they spoke perfect French … they said they were Al Qaeda," Rey said, according to France24. 

France has raised its alert status to the highest level. Newspaper offices, shopping centres, and museums in Paris are under police protection.

AFP journalist Eric Randolph noted that the cover of Charlie Hebdo this week featured Michel Houellebecq, whose new book "Submission," released Wednesday, imagines France in the future run by Muslims.

Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly first published in Paris in 1969, has faced threats in the past.

In 2006, it republished cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad from the Danish newspaper Jylland-Posten, triggering violent protests within the French Islamic community. According to Islamic doctrine, it is an offence to portray Allah or Muhammad on paper.

The magazine was firebombed in 2011, a day after an issue ran on Nov. 3 featuring an image of Muhammad on its front page said: "100 lashes of the whip if you don’t die laughing."

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Below are photos from the scene, some of which are graphic and may be upsetting to readers.

This photo from above the scene showing one person being carried out on a stretcher was posted by Twitter user @yvecresson:

 A Le Monde journalist tweeted this photo that she says shows the two shooters:

The AFP tweeted a photo of gunmen facing police officers: 

 A closer image shows the gunmen, dressed in black, holding what appear to be automatic rifles. 

 The Guardian tweeted this photo of the entrance:

 Here are some more pictures from the scene:

 This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. 

 

 

While no group has claimed credit for today’s attack, the main suspects are individuals affiliated with Al Qaeda or the rival Islamic State, which is based in Iraq and Syria. Both groups share a longstanding hatred of Charlie Hebdo, whose headquarters was firebombed in 2011 after the magazine published images of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb embedded in his turban.

On Jan. 7, supporters of the Islamic State expressed outrage after the magazine published a satirical cartoon of the group’s emir, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, expressing "best wishes" and good "health."

The attack appears to have been executed by hardened and well-trained fighters who may have received instructions at a training facility overseas or locally in France. The attackers may also be ex-military.

The professionalism of the two attackers is seen in a brief video that shows the execution of one of the two French policemen on the street outside of Charlie Hebdo’s headquarters. The video was captured by witnesses at the scene of the attack and was published on Liveleak.

The two attackers move in side-by-side formation and fire deliberately while shooting at a French police officer who is four to five car lengths away. After the officer is shot and downed, the two gunmen move quickly toward the policemen.

AP/Francois MoriFrench investigating police officer takes photos outside the door of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo’s office, in Paris, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015.

One shoots and executes the officer in stride. Both men move past the body, peer up the street for additional targets, then peel off and move back to the black car and leave the scene of the attack.

The tactic of using heavily armed gunmen to attack well-defended military targets or lightly defended civilian targets is commonly used by jihadist groups, including Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, the Taliban, and a host of allies in the war-torn countries of Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Nigeria.

But jihadist groups have also executed such attacks on civilians outside of war zones, including in Mumbai, India, in 2008, and Nairobi, Kenya, in 2013.

This article originally appeared at The Long War Journal. Copyright 2015. Follow The Long War Journal on Twitter.