Je suis Charlie

[greedy and cunning]

Re: French magazine staff killed because of comic

Why Muslims always potray themselves to be victims?

in simply way :
the evil USA stirred shit in those oil countries , and started it all.
this was done for the self benefit of evil USA.
it was about oil and Jew territory.
the common folks in these countries were marginalised by their own
corrupted stooge of the evil USA.
the most-limps in the occupied land were frustrated by the numerous failures
to a solution.
finally they cannot tahan any more and formed terrorist group.

then most-limp in other countries also copied their method
and formed its own terrorist groups.

 

[singveld]

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[xpo2015]

Jesu is charlie?

Damn those secular mofos!

 

[JohnTan]

Re: French magazine staff killed because of comic

in simply way :
the evil USA stirred shit in those oil countries , and started it all.
this was done for the self benefit of evil USA.
it was about oil and Jew territory.
the common folks in these countries were marginalised by their own
corrupted stooge of the evil USA.
the most-limps in the occupied land were frustrated by the numerous failures
to a solution.
finally they cannot tahan any more and formed terrorist group.

then most-limp in other countries also copied their method
and formed its own terrorist groups.

When Muslims were strong, they went about invading other countries, burning, killing, enslaving and destroying churches and temples along the way. From what I know, Muslims are very proud of those moments in their history. So why can't the Americans do the same to Muslims?

 

[frenchbriefs]

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When Muslims were strong, they went about invading other countries, burning, killing, enslaving and destroying churches and temples along the way. From what I know, Muslims are very proud of those moments in their history. So why can't the Americans do the same to Muslims?

That's called expansion,empire building.its perfectly legal to do that in those days,they learned it from napoleon,genghis khan,win shi huang and a myriad of others.

 

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Revealed: How customer in kosher deli was executed when he grabbed one of terrorist's guns and it JAMMED - as dramatic video shows moment SWAT team gunned down hostage taker

• Heroic customer at kosher supermarket in Paris snatched one of terrorist Amedy Coulibaly's guns during the siege
  
• Hostage turned the gun on the extremist - only to find it had been left on a counter because it was jammed
• Dramatic account revealed by a survivor reveals that Coulibaly then shot and killed the customer in cold blood
• Survivor - known only as Mickael B, was trapped inside the Jewish supermarket with his three-year-old son
• Hostage taker Amedy Coulibaly, 32, was responsible for shooting dead a policewoman on Thursday
• In the hours after the raid, police stand guard at the store where bodies of the victims are seen lying on the floor
• An Israeli government official said 15 hostages were rescued while French president confirmed four people killed
• Series of explosions rocked the building as armed police launched their raid in the suburb Porte de Vincennes
• It comes two days after Cherif and Said Kouachi massacred 12 people at Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris
• Prosecutor reveals 500 phone calls made between the wife of Coulibaly and one of the Kouachi brothers
• Police are interrogating the wives of the Kouachis in a bid to track down Coulibaly's wife Hayat Boumeddiene
• WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

By Gemma Mullin and Corey Charlton and Peter Allen and Tom Wyke and Jay Akbar and Julian Robinson and Fidelma Cook For Mailonline
Published: 21:11 GMT, 9 January 2015 | Updated: 12:09 GMT, 10 January 2015

A heroic customer at the kosher supermarket in Paris snatched one of the terrorist's guns and turned it on the hostage taker - only to find it was jammed, leaving the extremist to execute him in cold blood.

The dramatic account was revealed by a survivor who fled the shoot-out as armed police officers and soldiers raided the store yesterday.

Mickael B, as he wishes to be known, was held in the store with his three-year-old son when the fellow hostage suddenly grabbed the weapon which had been left on the counter and tried to fire it at terrorist Amedy Coulibaly.

But, after discovering the gun had been left there because it was malfunctioning, the extremist shot and killed the brave hostage.

This is the moment a man sprinted towards armed police as an officer aimed a hand gun at him amid a blaze of gunfire at the kosher supermarket

Commandos launched flash grenades into the grocery and fired into the store before hostage taker Amedy Coulibaly was gunned down

Giving a terrifying account, Mickael said: ‘I was heading for the check-out with the goods in my hand when I heard a bang – very loud. I thought it was a firecracker at first. But turning I saw a black man armed with two Kalashnikov rifles and I knew what was happening.’

‘I grabbed my son by the collar and fled to the back of the store. There, with other customers, we ran down a spiral staircase into the basement. We all piled into one of two cold rooms – our door wouldn’t close. We were terrified.

‘Five minutes later a store employee was sent down by the killer. She said he said we were to go back up otherwise there’d be carnage. I refused to go up.

‘By now my son, understanding nothing, was panicking. Then minutes later the employee comes back down with the same message. This time I decided to follow her up the spiral staircase.

‘At the top a man was dying in a pool of his own blood. The terrorist introduced himself to us. He was strangely calm. "I am Amedi Coulibaly, Malian and Muslim. I belong to the Islamic State," he told us.'

‘Then he told us to put our phones on the ground. He walked around the store, armed, totally justifying himself, speaking of Palestine, French prisons, his brothers in Syria and many other things.

‘Suddenly one of the customers tried to grab one of his guns which he’d left on the counter. It wasn’t working. The terrorist had put it there because it had blocked after the first shots,' Mickael told Le Point.

‘He turned and shot at the customer who died on the spot.'

Moments after police had stormed the grocery, terrified captives ran from the supermarket flanked by French commandos

Images have emerged of Amedy Coulibaly's bloodied body lying on a pavement surroudnded by forenzic officers after the siege had come to a dramatic end

Tributes: Flowers were this morning left tied to police fences erected outside the kosher supermarket in eastern Paris

Mickael added: 'He then demanded that I call the media, which I did. From then on the phone in the store never stopped ringing. It was mainly journalists. I told them now was not the time. My son started to cry he wanted to go home. He said the terrorist was a bad man.

‘I managed to get my phone out discreetly and got in touch with the police outside while the terrorist was roaming the aisles.

‘A policeman told me that we should be ready to throw ourselves flat on the ground when the assault came, which would be soon.

‘It was obvious that the terrorist was preparing to die. He said it was his reward. He had a weapon in each hand and boxes of cartridges nearby. He suddenly began to pray.

‘My mobile was still on. The police had heard it all. Minutes later the shop grille was lifted. We knew it was the start of the assault.

‘We flung ourselves to the ground. The noise was deafening. He was dead. It was over.’

Meanwhile dramatic footage has emerged of the moment police stormed in to the Paris kosher supermarket last night before terrorist Amedy Coulibaly was shot dead.

Commandos launched flash grenades into the grocery and fired into the shop before a man believed to be the hostage taker was gunned down. Moments later, terrified captives could be seen running to safety.

It comes as it was revealed that the Isis fanatic had slaughtered four hostages before officers launched the raid.

Last night, chilling images emerged of bodies lying on the floor of the bullet-ridden shop after several shoppers were taken hostage inside the grocery store - including women and children. Further images emerged of Coulibaly's bloodied body lying on a pavement after the siege had come to a dramatic end.

It has also been revealed there were 500 calls made between the phone belonging to Coulibaly's wife Hayat Boumeddiene - who is now on the run from police following the hostage siege - and a phone belonging to one of the wives of the Kouachi brothers.

It is unclear at this stage exactly who made the calls, but police are now interrogating the wives of the Kouachi brothers in a bid to track down armed and dangerous Boumeddiene.

A distraught woman takes a moment to lay a bouquet of flowers outside the supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, less than 24 hours after commandos raided it to rescue hostages

A victim of the siege in eastern Paris on Thursday is seen lying on the floor near the entrance to the supermarket after four hostages were killed

Questions were asked today of how the Charlie Hebdo shooters had been able to carry out the attacks. Both the Kouachi brothers are understood to have been on British and American terror watch lists.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said: 'There was a failing, of course. That's why we have to analyse what happened.

'They wanted to attack tolerance, the Jews of France once again. Four died yesterday and without the professionalism of forces that figure would have been much higher.

'We must never lower our guard. I am telling you this with a great deal of strength. We must carry on. We are doing our best, our utmost in order to fight against terrorism but there is always ways for terrorism to slip in.

'We have to be really strong, really tough as far as the enemies of freedom are concerned.'

Referring to a unity rally being held tomorrow, he said: 'It will be a rally which will be unbelievable and remain in the annals of history. It will shout and express its love and freedom and tolerance. Tomorrow's rally will be a cry for freedom.'

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said authorities are 'determined' to 'take the necessary measures to be able to protect the country'.

He said agencies are working to 'obtain intelligence from the investigations with regard to those who were the origin of these criminal acts'.

Mr Cazeneuve said: 'That's the case for terrorist acts but also for all the risks that the country is being confronted with, as for other countries in the European Union.'

Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed in the raid, threatened to kill his hostages if police attempted to storm the Charlie Hebdo terrorists who, at the time, were engaged in a similar standoff with police.

In the hours after the dramatic raid on the store, an Israeli government official said 15 hostages were rescued while French president Francois Hollande confirmed that four people were killed.

Coulibaly was also responsible for the fatal shooting of a policewoman on Thursday. It has now been suggested this attack may have been an aborted attempt to attack a Jewish school.

Police officers look for clues while a body, partially seen to the right, lies inside the kosher market after the siege came to an end yesteday

Forensics are examining the interior of the supermarket amid reports four captives were killed in the stand-off between police and the gunman

French police named the hostage taker as Amedy Coulibaly (right). Police also named Hayat Boumeddiene (left) as helping him. However, it is no longer clear whether she was involved

An armed police officer with a dog stands guard close to the entrance where a man's body lies on the floor after a raid on the kosher shop

A woman runs from the Paris kosher grocery store in tears as she is led away by French police after officers stormed the building yesterday

A man clutches a small boy close as they flee the Hyper Cacher store where they were held hostage yesterday (left) as a woman runs from the building in tears (right)

Prosecutor Francois Molins also said that several people have been handed preliminary charges in the investigation following the three-day rampage that has terrified France. They include family members of the three suspects, who were killed by police Friday.

He added that one of the two gunmen in the other standoff Friday was wounded in the throat in a shootout with police before being killed later in the day.

One woman who visited the Kosher shop described its manager Michel Emsalem as a 'kind' and 'patient' man.

Latifa Benjamaa, 37, said: 'He is kind, nice and polite. He is not someone who cares about religion. I often went to shop there and I'm a Muslim,' she said.

While it remained unclear whether the manager was involved in the incident, she added: 'This has nothing to do with religion. You are not allowed to kill in my religion. These men had an objective. These people are not doing this for Allah.'

Mrs Benjamaa said she feared people would begin rioting in the street.

She said: 'Now they are going to be repercussions. There will be war on the streets. Everyone is going to fear everyone. Before, things were fine.'

Police crowd one of the entrances to the supermarket before a burst of flames explodes, while officers hold up their riot shields as protection

Running for the lives, the hostages holed up in the grocery store for most of yesterday included young families, women and children

A mother can only express her relief as she clutches her young son as a partner puts up his thumb to signal that the young family are okay

One of the injured hostages is carried from the supermarket on a stretcher as medics quickly attempt to treat them for their injuries

Paramedics are on the scene to treat injured hostages following the raid where it is believed at least four hostages have been killed

Police officers protect themselves with riot shields as a fiery blast explodes at the entrance to the supermarket in Porte de Vincennes

It is reported that at least one of the police officers was injured in the blast and six explosions were heard at the Jewish supermarket yesterday

Armed police swarm the entrances and exits to the Hyper Cache in eastern Paris after several shoppers were held hostage for several hours

Officers stormed the supermarket minutes after two brothers responsible for the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre were killed at a second siege on the outskirts of Paris

A man carrying a small child is seen fleeing from the ordeal moments after police stormed the kosher grocery store in eastern Paris

The hostages, pictured as they escape the building, were just two of many who were seen to have survived the ordeal

The man is pictured in another shot carrying the small child in his arms, while the kosher grocery behind him remains illuminated

Members of the French special forces escort a number of hostages from inside the store moments after a series of explosions were heard

Hostages are pictured piling out of the building after terrorist Coulibaly was left dead in the dramatic confrontation

Pictured is a person being taken away from the scene on a stretcher after four hostages were killed in the incident

The streets surrounding the siege are filled with ambulances and police cars in the minutes following the dramatic raid

Flash bangs and explosions explode inside the building, which is pictured moments before police (bottom right) charged inside

Earlier yesterday, as news of the hostage situation broke, police ordered all shops in Paris' famed Jewish district to be immediately closed.

The mayor's office in Paris announced the closures of shops along the Rosiers street in Paris' Marais neighbourhood, in the heart of the tourist district and about a kilometre away from the offices of newspaper Charlie Hebdo where 12 people were killed on Wednesday.

A 20-year-old student was among the hostages taken at the kosher shop in Paris. The young woman, whose name remains unknown, called her uncle who works nearby from the basement of the building where she was being held.

Earlier reports that there was a serious incident developing near the Trocadero in central Paris were incorrect - it remains open and running after what was a false alarm.

The siege at the grocery store occurred after the Charlie Hebdo killers in Dammartin-en-Goele found themselves holed up with a hostage at a business premises further north - and were believed to have made contact with an associate.

Police immediately scrambled phone signals in the area – but not before the killers were able to make their call.

It was feared that Said Kouachi and his brother Cherif contacted Amedy Coulibaly – and possibly ordered him to take hostages in a bid to force police to allow them to escape.

Strong links between the Kouachi brothers and Coulibaly continue to emerge - including the phone calls between one of the Kouachi's wife and Coulibaly's wife Hayat Boumeddiene, revealed by Mr Molins on Friday.

Police were today interrogating the wives of the Kouachi brothers in a bid to track down Hayat Boumeddiene - who is now France's most wanted woman.

Boumeddiene, described as armed and dangerous, has been on the run since the slaying of rookie policewoman, Clarissa Jean-Phillipe, by Coulibaly.

Hundreds of phone calls between Boumeddiene and Izzana Hamyd, wife of Cherif Kouachi, have shown up on mobile records. Five hundred in all were made last year.

Also being held is the wife or girlfriend of the older Kouachi brother, Said.

French Algerian Boumeddiene is now not thought to have been with Coulibaly at any time in the Kosher Supermarket and to have fled immediately after the killing.

Radicalised: Hayat Boumeddiene (left) pictured with her husband Amedy Coulibaly (right) who is one of the three terrorists who brought France to a halt in 48 hours of bloodshed

Police officers stop two people on a scooter at gunpoint as they arrived near the scene of the hostage taking yesterday

The pair are aggressively wrestled to the ground by police officers who were tasked with preventing anyone coming and going from the scene

A building is evacuated by members of the French special forces teams after at least six people were taken hostage by the gunman

A police officer is dressed in body armour as the hostage-taker was believed to be armed with assault rifles

A police officer takes aim upwards as he mans his position at the siege in eastern Paris

Police officers take aim as they huddle behind a car after there were reports the gunman was armed with heavy weapons

Police forces were stretched as they dealt with two hostage situations across Paris simultaneously

Rows of police vans sit parked at the side of the road while a solitary officer stands guard at the outskirts of the cordon

Cherif and Coulibaly were both part of the Buttes Chaumont gang - a group of extremists who came together in the early 2000s - and were both implicated in a plot to free jailed Islamist Smaïn Aït Ali Belkacem in 2010.

As the two sieges by suspected Islamic terrorists yesterday played out at the same time, fears grew that the jihadis were looking to cause another bloodbath.

Clarissa Jean-Philippe, 27, was unarmed and directing traffic in Montrouge, in south Paris, when she was gunned down by Coulibay on Thursday.

A 20-YEAR-OLD STUDENT HOSTAGE: 'SHE WAS SHOPPING AT THE TIME'

A 20-year-old student was among the hostages taken at the kosher shop in Paris.

The young woman, whose name remains unknown, called her uncle who works nearby from the basement of the building where she was being held.

Jean-Marc Sellam, the business partner of her uncle Patrick Tuile told MailOnline that she had called her uncle 'panicked'.

He said: 'The niece of my associate was taken hostage. I think there were five people taken.

'His niece is about 20 years old. She was shopping at the time. She was allowed to speak to her uncle on the phone. She said she was scared and panicked. Police have now let her uncle go to the scene.'

Mr Sellam added: 'I am shocked. I have been for 48 hours. As long as they keep letting these barbaric people come back from Syria it will keep happening.'

The woman taken hostage was Jewish.

French police wearing body armour and carrying rifles stand guard at the cordoned off scene

Reports first claimed Coulibaly took at least six people hostage in the kosher grocery store but it was nearer to 20 by the time police stormed it

A hooded police officer armed with an assault rifle crosses a section of the ring road that circles Paris, near the hostage situation

A police officer instructs residents of the Paris suburb after the area ground to a standstill when shooting broke out

A special forces team member lead residents out of the area (left) while two others patrol the cordon (right)

Solidarity: Lights project 'Paris est Charlie' (Paris is Charlie) on to the Arc de Triomphe in a sign a defiance against the terrorists

Two of Coulibaly's relatives were arrested in nearby Grigny during a police raid this morning.

Like the Kouachi brothers, he is known to have been radicalised by an Islamic preacher in Paris, before expressing a wish to fight in Iraq or Syria. Both Said Kouachi, 34, and his brother, Cherif Kouachi, 33, were first arrested in 2005.

They were suspected members of the Buttes Chaumont – a group operating out of the 19th arrondissement of Paris and sending terrorist fighters to Iraq.

Cherif was convicted in 2008 to three years in prison, with 18 months suspended, for his association with the underground organisation.

He had wanted to fly to Iraq via Syria, and was found with a manual for a Kalashnikov – the automatic weapon used in Wednesday’s attack.

WHO ARE GIGN? THE ELITE FRENCH UNIT BROUGHT IN TO END THE TWO HOSTAGE DRAMAS

An elite French unit was brought in to bring an end to the two dramatic sieges yesterday.

The GIGN – Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale – is specially trained in counter-terrorism operations.

It was formed specifically to deal with highly-organised and heavily armed groups – and to respond to hostage situations.

The unit was formed in 1973 – a year after the Munich massacre during the Olympic Games. A study was launched in France into possible solutions to sudden and violent attacks.
Initially it consisted of just 15 members – but it gradually increased to 87 by 2000.

The GIGN – Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale – is specially trained in counter-terrorism operations

In 2007, it underwent a major reshuffle to form a new 380-member unit with the aim of being able to launch large-scale interventions and respond to mass hostage-taking situations.

Since it was formed, the group has launched more than a thousand operations and freed more than 500 hostages.

Among its best known interventions was the 1994 liberation of 229 passengers and crew from an Air France flight which had been hijacked by four terrorists.

As part of a vigorous training scheme, members are taught shooting, long-range marksmanship and hand-to-hand combat.

As well as weapons handling, they are put through their paces in airborne skills such as paragliding as well as swimming, diving and launching assaults on ships.

But their skills must also include undercover surveillance, bomb disposal and diplomacy techniques for siege situations.

They are taught to survive in some of the toughest conditions on the planet, including desert environments and in sub-zero terrain.

Dozens of police officers (pictured) surrounded the kosher bakery, where a gunman took many people hostage in a raid that ended in the deaths of four innocent people

Police cordons (pictured) were established to surround the kosher bakery, where women and children were among those held captive

Three officers mobilise in the Port de Vincennes area after what is France's second hostage situation to break out in the same day

A large shield and a pole used for breaking down doors are wheeled to the scene

Said was freed after questioning by police, but – like his brother – was known to have been radicalised after the Iraq War of 2003, when Anglo-American forces deposed Saddam Hussein.

Both brothers were said to be infuriated by the killing of Muslims by western soldiers and war planes.

Vincent Olliviers, Cherif’s lawyer at the time, described him as initially being an ‘apprentice loser - a delivery boy in a cap who smoked hashish and delivered pizzas to buy his drugs.

But Mr Ollivier said the ‘clueless kid who did not know what to do with his life met people who gave him the feeling of being important.’

After his short prison sentence, Cherif was in 2010 linked with a plot to free Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, the mastermind of the1995 bombing of the St Michel metro station in Paris that killed eight people and wounded more than 100 more.

Belkacem was a leading members of the GIA, or Armed Islamic Army – an Algerian terror outfit responsible for numerous atrocities.

The Kouachi brothers, who are orphans, were radicalised by an Iman operating in northern Paris.

SUSPECTED HOSTAGE TAKER A 'CLOSE ASSOCIATE' OF THE KOUACHI BROTHERS

The hostage taker of the Paris terror attack is a close associate of the Kouachi brothers, who killed 12 people in the Charlie Hebdo massacre two days ago and died earlier yesterday in a shootout with police.

Sources in the Paris police said the suspected murderer Amedy Coulibay, 32, was wearing body armour and brandishing two Kalashnikov automatic weapons.

It's thought that he was of Senegalese origin and attended the Addawa Mosque in Paris with the Kouachi brothers.

As part of a jihadist cell with Said and Cherif Kouachi, he was involved in the failed prison break attempt of Smain Ait Ali Belkacem - the mastermind behind a wave of bombings in France in 1995 which killed eight people and wounded 120.

Coulibay, who was himself jailed in 2010 for his involvement in the plot, had a long history of both petty and serious crimes.

The only boy born in a family of 10 in Juvisy, Essonne, he first came to police attention as a 17-year-old delinquent.

Convictions for theft and drug offences followed. In September 2002 in Orleans, Loiret, he was arrested for the armed robbery of a bank.

It's believed he became involved with the younger of the Kouachi brothers, Cherif, when he was part of a jihadist recruitment ring in Paris that sent fighters to join the conflict in Iraq.

Kouachi was subsequently sentenced to three years in prison.

Coulibaly is thought to have become radicalised when he came under the influence of Djamel Beghal, a French Algerian convicted of terrorism.

Beghal was once accused of being Osama Bin Laden’s main European recruiter and has been linked with Cherif Kouachi.

Coulibaly admitted to police he saw Beghal every three weeks but purely for ‘religious instruction.’ It is understood that he married Hayat Boumeddiene in a religious ceremony after she waited four years for him to come out of jail following his conviction for armed robbery.

The couple were never married in a civil ceremony – the only marriage legally accepted in France.

They were raised in foster care in Rennes, in western France, with Cherif training as a fitness instructor before moving to Paris.

They lived in the 19th arrondissement and were radicalised by Farid Benyettou, a janitor-turned-preacher who gave sermons calling for jihad in Iraq and suicide bombings.

His Buttes-Chaumont recruitment group, named after a Paris park, sent at least a dozen young men to fight in Iraq.

The Kouachis share similar backgrounds to Mohammed Merah, the 23-year-old French Algerian responsible for murdering seven people, including four Jews and three Muslim soldiers, in the Toulouse area in 2012.

Merah, who was himself shot dead by police, had also been left to operate as a terrorist in France, despite the authorities knowing he had trained with Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Last year Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French Algerian, was arrested in Marseille in connection with an attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels which left four people dead. He denies any crimes, and is currently on remand in Belgium.

 

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Hunt for France's most wanted woman: Police interrogate wives of Charlie Hebdo gunmen as they battle to track down supermarket gunman's jihadist girlfriend

• Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is the 'wife' of Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman and four hostages in a kosher bakery
  
• Coulibaly was then killed as commandos stormed the building
  
• Accomplice Boumeddiene is on the loose as police warn she is dangerous
• Hundreds of phone calls were made between her and the wife of one of the Charlie Hebdo killers last year
• Police are interrogating wives of Said and Cherif Kouachi in a bid to track down Boumeddiene
• Kouachi brothers were killed as they tried to fight their way out of a print works 25 miles from Paris

By Fidelma Cook and Peter Allen In France and Jenny Stanton For Mailonline
Published: 16:36 GMT, 9 January 2015 | Updated: 11:07 GMT, 10 January 2015

Police were today interrogating the wives of the Kouachi brothers responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre in a bid to track down France’s most wanted woman – Hayat Boumeddiene.

Boumeddiene, described as armed and dangerous, has been on the run since the slaying of rookie policewoman, Clarissa Jean-Phillipe, by her terrorist husband Amedy Coulibaly.

Hundreds of phone calls between Boumeddiene and Izzana Hamyd, wife of Cherif Kouachi, have shown up on mobile records. Five hundred in all were made last year.

Also being held is the wife or girlfriend of the older Kouachi brother, Said.

French Algerian Boumeddiene is now not thought to have been with Coulibaly at any time in the Kosher Supermarket and to have fled immediately after the killing.

Wearing a skimpy bikini with her arms wrapped around her lover's waist, this is Boumeddiene before she turned into a jihadi killer's accomplice and became France's most wanted woman.

Radicalised: Hayat Boumeddiene (left) pictured with her husband Amedy Coulibaly (right) who is one of the three terrorists who brought France to a halt in 48 hours of bloodshed

'Armed and dangerous': It is becoming clear that the one-time cashier was radicalised after meeting the man she would marry

Photographs of the 'wife' of the Kosher supermarket hostage killer reveal how she was radicalised by the man she would go on to marry.

Her husband Amedy Coulibaly is dead, one of the three terrorists who brought France to a halt in 48 hours of bloodshed.

Now, 26-year-old Boumeddiene is on the run and is believed to be 'armed and dangerous'.

Coulibaly died in a hail of bullets along with four hostages in the storming of the Jewish supermarket.

The couple 'married' in a religious ceremony after Boumedienne, who was never seen without her veil, waited four years for him to come out of jail following his conviction for armed robbery.

The couple were never married in a civil ceremony – the only form of marriage legally accepted in France.

Jihadi couple: Boumeddiene (right) walked away from a low-paid job as a cashier in 2009 and started wearing a veil. She ‘devoted herself’ to Coulibaly (left)

'Cool and composed': Boumeddiene never wavered under police cross examination. When told they knew she and Coulibaly had visited Beghal at the same time as Cherif Kouachi and two other convicted terrorists, she replied: 'We went there for crossbow practice'

Cornered: French police named the hostage taker as Amedy Coulibaly (left), 32, but Boumeddiene (right), 26, is not thought to have been at his side at the time

Stunned: A 27-year-old Coulibaly (pictured) once 'gushed' with excitement when he was hand-picked to meet former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy

While Coulibaly had a well documented track record, details of Boumeddiene's troubled childhood are only now emerging.

Like her husband she was born into a large family, seven children, in 1988 but when she was just six years old, her mother died.

The eldest children left home, according to reports in Le Parisien, and social workers took over. It is suggested that Boumeddiene may have been put into care.

Estranged from her father, she met him briefly once more and introduced him to Coulibaly.

But all may not have been as settled as the young woman, radicalised by her husband, thought.

It is understood he had made it clear he wanted to take a second wife, according to other reports.

Today, questioned by police at his home in Nanterre, a Paris suburb, Boumeddiene’s father is said to be shocked and unable to believe that his daughter was involved with the terrorist cell.

But it is becoming clear that the one-time cashier was radicalised after meeting the man she would marry.

She is from an Algerian background and altered her surname to ‘make it sound more French', according to an investigating source.

She told police who interviewed her as part of their inquiries into Coulibaly’s murky dealings with Islamic extremists that she had walked away from a low-paid job as a cashier in the Juvisy suburb of Paris in 2009 and taken the veil. She ‘devoted herself’ to Coulibaly.

Interrogated by police in 2010, Boumeddiene said she was inspired by her husband and the radicals she lived with to ‘read a lot of books on religion and because of this, I came to ask questions on religion’.

‘When I saw the massacre of the innocents in Palestine, in Iraq, in Chetchna, in Afghanistan or anywhere the Americans sent their bombers, all that… well, who are the terrorists?'

She added that when Americans killed innocents, it was the right of men to defend their women and children.

Always cool and composed, Boumeddiene never wavered under police cross examination.

Going in: Special forces storm the Jewish grocery to the east of Paris where terrorist Amedey Coulibaly had taken at least seven people hostage

Chilling: The body of a man can be seen at the entrance of the Jewish supermarket after it was stormed by commandos

Terrified: Hostages - who had been held for hours with Coulibaly threatening to kill them - flee from the shop, crying with relief

Wanted: Police issued this picture describing the couple as suspects in the shooting dead of a female police officer at Montrouge

When told that they knew she and Coulibaly had visited Beghal at the same time as Cherif Kouachi and two other convicted terrorists, jihadi recruiter Ahmed Laidouni, and Farid Melouk of GIA, she replied: 'We went there for crossbow practice.’

The couple lived in nearby Bagneux, where they were known as a devoutly religious couple, despite Coulibaly’s regular run-ins with the law.

To neighbours the pair were quiet, respectful and normal and had even gone on a holiday to Malaysia together.

But a month ago they simply disappeared from their suburban house until flashed across the world’s screens today.

Coulibaly murdered at least four hostages at the Kosher supermarket in Paris, according to Reuters news agency.

He is believed to be part of an Al Qaeda terror cell linked to a British-based jihadi extremist, Djamel Beghal.

The 50-year-old preacher, who recruited terrorists while worshipping at London's Finsbury Park mosque, met Cherif Kouachi while in prison in Paris.

Armed: Dozens of police officers took refuge outside the Kosher bakery in Vincennes, where Ademy Coulibaly was holding hostages

Ultimatum: The hostage taker threatened to kill the remaining captives if the Charlie Hebdo attackers were raided

Coulibaly has a long history of both petty and serious crimes. The only boy born in a family of ten in Juvisy, Essonne, he first came to police attention as a 17-year-old delinquent.

Convictions for theft and drug offences followed. In September 2002 in Orleans, Loiret, he was arrested for the armed robbery of a bank.

It's believed he became involved with the younger of the Kouachi brothers, Cherif, when he was part of a jihadist recruitment ring in Paris that sent fighters to join the conflict in Iraq. Kouachi was subsequently sentenced to three years in prison.

The two sieges by suspected Islamic terrorists played out at the same time, as fears grew that they would be looking to cause another bloodbath.

Coulibaly is believed to be the one responsible for shooting a policewoman dead in south Paris on Thursday.

 

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Quick-thinking hostages 'texted with police', hid in fridge under Charlie Hebdo gunmen's noses

PUBLISHED : Saturday, 10 January, 2015, 12:46pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 10 January, 2015, 12:51pm

Agence France-Presse in Paris

Members of the French police special forces evacuate hostages including a child (centre) after launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris. Photo: AFP

From the father who hid his toddler inside a supermarket refrigerator to the employee who texted tactical information to police from beneath a sink, authorities praised the quick instincts of survivors in the hostage incidents that gripped France on Friday.

At the printworks office besieged by two gunmen believed to have carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre, one employee took refuge under a sink in the canteen upstairs and, though terrified, overcame his fear and communicated with police outside via text message.

The employee, 26-year-old graphic designer named Lilian, sent police “tactical elements such as his location inside the premises”, a source said.

Lilian could hear the suspects talking, which both helped reassure him and gave him more information to send to the forces outside, the source said. Another source said the hidden employee was also able to communicate with a family member via text.

The gunmen – identified as brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who had been on the run since allegedly slaughtering 12 people at the weekly magazine Charle Hebdo‘s offices in Paris on Wednesday – had been cornered at the printing office after a firefight with police which Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said left Said with a minor neck wound.

They had a hefty cache of arms including Molotov cocktails and a loaded rocket-launcher.

The brothers had taken the store manager hostage, but later released him after he helped Said with his wound as the second man hid upstairs, said Molins.

Police gather outside the supermarket, where the body of gunman Amedy Coulibaly, said to be an ally of the Charlie Hebdo shooters, lay dead (left). Photo: EPA

Some 40 kilometres away, shortly before 1pm, a father named Ilan and his three-year-old son were at a kosher supermarket in Vincennes when Amedy Coulibaly, believed to be an ally of the Kouachi brothers, burst into the store and pulled out a Kalashnikov.

The father and son quickly hid in the supermarket’s refrigeration unit, two relatives told AFP.

At least three other people were with them, according to sources close to the investigation.

Ilan, in his 30s, quickly removed his jacket and wrapped his son in it to protect the toddler from the frigid temperatures. Hidden in the cold, they and the other hostages remained in the refrigerator for nearly five hours.

Meanwhile, Ilan’s mother realised quickly that her son and grandson were hidden and decided not to try to contact them, even by text.

Instead she gave Ilan’s mobile phone number to law enforcement, who were able to use it to track the location of the man, his son and the other hostages inside the store.

Cherif (left) and Said Kouachi were killed by police after they beseiged a printing office near Paris, just 12 kilometres from the Charles de Gaulle airport. Photo: AFP

This knowledge, according to the prosecutor, may have contributed to their survival when police finally stormed the store and killed Coulibaly.

By the end of the siege, four hostages would be dead.

Meanwhile, in Dammartin-en-Goele, as police launched their assault on the printing works, an armoured car gave them access to the upper floor to free the hidden employee, a source said.

The employee, unharmed, was taken to police headquarters, where he was quickly reunited with his family, another source close to the case said, adding that the young man was “shocked” but “OK”.

Ilan was debriefed by intelligence services late Friday and his mother was recovering after several hours of anguish.

 

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Anonymous to 'avenge' Charlie Hebdo victims

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Online hacktivist group Anonymous has declared ‘war’ on terrorists in response to the massacre at the office of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.

Twelve people were killed when two gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical magazine and opened fire.

A screenshot from the Anonymous video posted online. Photo: YouTube.

The two brothers suspected over the attack were later shot dead by police during a siege at a printing plant.

The Belgian branch of Anonymous has posted a YouTube video about its new campaign called #OpCharlieHedbo.

In the video, a person wearing Anonymous’ trademark Guy Fawkes mask and speaking French with an obscured voice, refers to Al-Qaeda and Islamic State specifically, saying the group had decided to ‘declare war on you, the terrorists’, The Mirror reports.

"We will track you down to the last one and will kill you,” the person in the video says.

"You allowed yourselves to kill innocent people, we will therefore avenge their deaths."

The person says hacktivists from around the world will track down all jihadist activities online and close down all of their social media accounts.

"You will not impose your sharia law in our democracies, we will not let your stupidity kill our liberties and our freedom of expression,” the masked spokesperson says.

“We have warned you; expect your destruction, we will track you everywhere on the planet, nowhere will you be safe."

The video then ends with the usual Anonymous tagline.

“We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forget. We do not forgive. Be afraid of us, Islamic State and Al Qaeda - you will get our vengeance."

Another video has also been posted to YouTube in English, but with a digital voice and digital image of the Guy Fawkes mask.

It carries the same message as the French version of the video.

“We will track them all the way we are fighting in memory of those innocent people who fought for freedom of expression,” the voice in the video says.

 

[hofmann]

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We WILL hunt YOU down like the DOGS that you are. Come get some bitches.

 

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Rupert Murdoch is a very brave man. He said what millions of non muslim know, want to say in public but self censor because of potential trouble in real life.
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Rupert Murdoch has sparked backlash online after saying all Muslims should be held responsible for the actions of jihadists.
The controversial media mogul took to Twitter after three days of terrorist atrocities in Paris.
The News Corp boss suggested that even peaceful Muslims must take responsibility for the actions of terrorists until the 'jihadist cancer' is destroyed.
He wrote: 'Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.'
He then maintained his stance, arguing that 'political correctness' made for 'denial and hypocrisy'.
He added: 'Big jihadist danger looming everywhere from Philippines to Africa to Europe to US.
'Political correctness makes for denial and hypocrisy.'

 

[singveld]

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If I can accept that the Paris murderers aren’t real Muslims why won’t the MUSLIM world say so too?

To denounce them as non-Muslims, to urge REAL Muslims – the vast majority who loathe these extremists as much as we do - to rise up against them, alienate and marginalize them, root them out of their society.

In short, I want real Muslims to reclaim their Islam faith and to make it crystal clear that these terrorists don’t act in their name, nor the name of the Prophet Mohammad.

PIERS MORGAN

 

[Froggy]

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If I can accept that the Paris murderers aren’t real Muslims why won’t the MUSLIM world say so too?

To denounce them as non-Muslims, to urge REAL Muslims – the vast majority who loathe these extremists as much as we do - to rise up against them, alienate and marginalize them, root them out of their society.

In short, I want real Muslims to reclaim their Islam faith and to make it crystal clear that these terrorists don’t act in their name, nor the name of the Prophet Mohammad.

PIERS MORGAN

The fact is these Muslims deep down condone it in their silence.

 

[Froggy]

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If I can accept that the Paris murderers aren’t real Muslims why won’t the MUSLIM world say so too?

To denounce them as non-Muslims, to urge REAL Muslims – the vast majority who loathe these extremists as much as we do - to rise up against them, alienate and marginalize them, root them out of their society.

In short, I want real Muslims to reclaim their Islam faith and to make it crystal clear that these terrorists don’t act in their name, nor the name of the Prophet Mohammad.

PIERS MORGAN

The fact is these Muslims deep down condone it in their silence.

 

[singveld]

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The fact is these Muslims deep down condone it in their silence.

true and most non muslim is scare of them.

 

[singveld]

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21th century is the century for china. 22th century is the century for Islam. Since Europe taking so many of them now every year, it is a matter of time they become the politic power of Europe. They can use the nuclear arsenal to defeat USA and China and conquer the world. That is the the utimate goal of the death cult.

 

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When Muslims were strong, they went about invading other countries, burning, killing, enslaving and destroying churches and temples along the way. From what I know, Muslims are very proud of those moments in their history. So why can't the Americans do the same to Muslims?

1] that happened when the arsenal and communication equipments were of stone age quality.
2] most-limp was not the only one who conquered other countries.
the mongol , the spanish , etc , did it too.
the british colonized many countries.
3] world is in a vastly different scenario now.
attacking another country for the sole purpose of expansion is out of the question.
if not , Isreal would had invaded Jordan , Syria long ago,
china would be attacking nihon now , before it get stronger militarily.
now got atom bombs , jet fighters , missiles , and fast communication.
so don't play play.
4] also , the evil USA is not invading other countries , like what the most-limp did as you mentioned.
in the pretence of liberating others from some evil , it sent armed force to
fight in these countries.
win or lose , evil USA is not going to take over that country.
you think it is going to take over vietnam even if it win the vietnam war ?
evil USA doing all these in self interest.
Fuc the USA.

 

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Hong Kong cartoonists reflect on massacre at Paris magazine

PUBLISHED : Sunday, 11 January, 2015, 4:53am
UPDATED : Sunday, 11 January, 2015, 4:53am

Amy Nip [email protected]

Illustration by Hong Kong cartoonist Collins Yeung pay tribute to the victims of the attack on a Paris magazine.

Tears leak from the nib of a fountain pen set against darkness, in a Hong Kong illustration about a tragedy thousands of kilometres away.

It is local cartoonist Zunzi's way of expressing his grief over shootings at an outspoken French magazine in Paris last week that left 12 dead - one of whom he knew personally.

The artist, whose real name is Wong Kei-kwan, was a friend of Jean Cabut of Charlie Hebdo, who went by the pen name Cabu.

Cabu was controversial for his drawings of the Prophet Mohammed, but it was his attitude that left an impression - he prided himself as a journalist who would probe and research a topic to understand it.

That struck a chord with Wong, who switched from newspaper reporting three decades ago and is now one of the city's few artists who still draw political cartoons for a living.

He said cartoonists, like doctors, had to tackle a set of problems specific to a community.

Illustration by Hong Kong cartoonist Zunzi pay tribute to the victims of the attack on a Paris magazine.

Europe had a complicated history scarred with two world wars, racial tension and rivalries among countries, he said. Cartoonists did not hesitate to depict all sorts of taboos and were often threatened and assaulted.

Hong Kong cartoonists were spared the physical violence, but faced an invisible hand of interference instead, Wong said.

"After the second world war, there were more than 20 local newspapers. Every one carried political cartoons. Now, except for a few newspapers, most do not publish such cartoons, simply to avoid trouble."

Political cartoons about the city are increasing on the internet. But censorship by the mainstream media ensures few other outlets are available and no income for the creators.

White Water, who draws the Boiling Frog series on Facebook, recalled feedback about the work he had handed to several newspapers: "I like your work, but can you not draw political cartoons?"

A Hongkonger, he also received insults after posting cartoons on topics such as conflicts with the mainland.

Some newspapers banned illustrations of politicians who were their allies, an artist said on condition of anonymity. "Not only can we not make fun of them, they cannot appear in cartoons at all."

Another cartoonist, Cuson Lo Chi-kong, once had his Facebook account suspended after he uploaded a drawing mocking the State Council's June white paper about "one country, two systems". Facebook had received complaints that the artwork contained dubious content.

"My role is to help the public express their views and vent their frustration," Lo said. "When they 'like' or 'share' my cartoons online, they have somehow made their views clear."

Post cartoonist Harry Harrison said he faced only the occasional quibble. "Your policemen are always too fat," went one complaint.

He would handle sensitive topics with care, he said. "I saw a cartoon of the Prophet with a pig's body [after the Paris case]. It is an attack on ordinary Muslims, which is not helpful at all."

 

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Partner of French attacker in Syria, sources say

Sources believe the fourth suspect in the Paris attacks had already left country

PUBLISHED : Sunday, 11 January, 2015, 3:14am
UPDATED : Sunday, 11 January, 2015, 9:30am

Reuters in Paris

Pencils are held up in Caen in support of the magazine.

The suspected female accomplice of Islamists behind attacks in Paris left France last week and travelled to Syria via Turkey, a source familiar with the situation said yesterday.

Suspect Hayat Boumeddiene

French police were searching for 26-year-old old Hayat Boumeddiene, believed to be the partner of Amedy Coulibaly, who killed a policewoman on Thursday and four people at a Jewish supermarket on Friday.

Boumeddiene and Coulibaly, who later died in a siege at the shop, had links to the two brothers who carried out the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo weekly on Wednesday. They were also killed after they took a hostage at a print works on Friday.

Police had listed Boumeddiene a suspect in the shooting of the policewoman, describing her as "armed and dangerous".

However, the latest information means she was already out of the country at the time of the attacks, the source said.

French media earlier released photos purporting to be of a fully veiled Boumeddiene, posing with a crossbow, in what they said was a 2010 training session in the mountainous Cantal region.

Le Monde daily said Boumeddiene wed Amedy Coulibaly in a religious ceremony in 2009.

The hunt for the last suspect came as hundreds of troops were deployed around Paris, beefing up security on the eve of a march expected to draw more than a million in tribute to the victims.

The participation of European leaders including Germany's Angela Merkel and Britain's David Cameron in the silent march through Paris with President Francois Hollande will pose further demands for security forces today. "We remain at risk, and we will maintain the highest level of security in comings weeks," Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said after an emergency cabinet meeting.

In a taste of what was to come, people poured on to the streets in Nice, Pau and Orleans in poignantly silent marches paying tribute to those killed.

Political and security chiefs were reviewing how two French-born brothers of Algerian extraction, Said and Cherif Kouachi, could have carried out the Charlie Hebdo attacks despite having been on surveillance and "no-fly" lists for many years.

Before they were killed, the brothers said they were acting on behalf of al-Qaeda in Yemen.

An audio recording on YouTube attributed to a leader of the Yemeni branch of al-Qaeda said the attack in France was prompted by insults to the Prophet Mohammed.

Harith al-Nadhari also chillingly warned France to "stop your aggression against the Muslims" or face further attacks.

In light of those comments, Hollande warned the danger to France was not over yet.

"These madmen, fanatics, have nothing to do with the Muslim religion," Hollande added in a televised address.

Before Coulibaly- who met Cherif Kouachi in prison - was killed by police in the assault on the Jewish store, he said he was a member of the Islamic State jihadist group.

Additional reporting by Associated Press, Agence France-Presse

 

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French magazine Charlie Hebdo drew a line in the sand for freedom

Charlie Hebdo never shied from controversy with a satirical eye on many subjects. But it was cartoons of Muhammed that made it a target

PUBLISHED : Sunday, 11 January, 2015, 6:33am
UPDATED : Sunday, 11 January, 2015, 6:33am

Agencies in Paris

Illustration: Craig Stephens

Shortly before black-masked gunmen stormed the east Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, an image went out from the satirical magazine's Twitter account. Poking fun at Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the militant Islamic State organisation, the caricature depicted him speaking into a microphone, offering new year's greetings and wishes of good health.

The spoof captured the spirit of an irreverent French institution that on Wednesday became the site of a national tragedy. The gunmen struck at 11.30am, a strategic time when the weekly paper that had made Islam one of its many targets was holding a key editorial meeting.

Within a few violent moments, some of the most provocative voices in French journalism were extinguished - including the paper's chief editor, Stephane Charbonnier, and some of France's top cartoonists, including Jean Cabut, Georges Wolinski and Bernard Verlhac. A paper that for the past several years had bitterly defended its right to lampoon Islam, just as any other juicy target, found itself paying the highest price.

"It's as if Matt Groening of the Simpsons had been assassinated, somebody everybody knows, who makes quips at society," said Laurence Grove, author of Comics in French: The European Bande Dessinee in Context. "Okay, they are a little bit more rude and daring than Matt Groening would be, but it's at that level of everyday knowledge in France. Everybody knows Charlie Hebdo. Everybody laughs at it, or is disgusted by it or disapproves, but everybody knows it."

The successor of a satirical magazine first founded in the 1960s, Charlie Hebdo held few things sacred. And that's why French of a certain stripe held it dear. You name it, and Charlie Hebdo lampooned it. The birth of Jesus Christ. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Jewish rabbis. The outlandish antics of the far right.

It seemed to thrive in hot water, purveying a particular brand of French humour for street sweepers and intellectuals alike. In a previous incarnation, when the publication was named Hara-Kiri Hebdo, a cartoon spoofing the 1970 death of Charles de Gaulle earned it a ban by the French government. Its publishers found a loophole by renaming it Charlie Hebdo, an homage to Charlie Brown cartoons as well as a sly reference to the de Gaulle comic.

But without doubt, its most polemical publications revolved around Islam.

In 2006, Charlie Hebdo was one of several European publications to reprint cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, including one showing the Prophet with a bomb fuse under his turban. In 2007, several French Muslim organisations sued the magazine for insulting their religion but lost in court.

Emboldened, the magazine did not hold back. In an infamous 2011 cover, it jokingly renamed itself Charia Hebdo, a crude play on "sharia", or strict Islamic law. Mohammed was depicted on the cover, saying, "100 lashes if you are not dying of laughter".

Charlie Hebdo's headquarters was firebombed the next day. The attack destroyed the offices but injured no one.

"This is the first time we have been physically attacked, but we won't let it get to us," Charbonnier, who was known by the pen name "Charb", pledged after the attack.

Six days later the magazine published a front page depicting a male Charlie Hebdo cartoonist passionately kissing a bearded Muslim man in front of the charred aftermath of the bombing. The headline was "L'Amour plus fort que la haine" - Love is stronger than hate.

After the bombing, the paper moved to a nondescript location in an office building in Paris, initially guarded by riot police.

In September 2012, Charlie Hebdo chose its next moment, after a low-budget American anti-Islam film sparked riots in the Middle East.

The images of a disrobed Mohammed in the paper came amid an already tense international environment. The French police called Charbonnier and asked the magazine to reconsider publishing the cartoons. When the editor declined to do so, law enforcement once again stationed riot police outside Charlie Hebdo's offices, and the government moved to temporarily close embassies, cultural centres and schools in 20 countries out of fear of reprisals.

At the time, the US White House criticised the decision to publish the cartoons. "We don't question the right of something like this to be published, we just question the judgment behind the decision to publish it," press secretary Jay Carney said.

Gerard Biard, the editor-in-chief, rejected the criticism. "We're a newspaper that respects French law," he said. "Now, if there's a law that is different in Kabul or Riyadh, we're not going to bother ourselves with respecting it."

In January 2013 Charlie Hebdo published a cartoon book, The Life of Mohammed, sparking another fierce debate over freedom of expression in France. Its cover pictured a goofy-looking Prophet leading a sweating camel through the desert. Charbonnier said the "biography" was "authorised by Islam since it was edited by Muslims".

The magazine's cover last week features Michel Houellebecq's provocative new novel, Submission, which imagines France being ruled by a Muslim president.

The Danish editor who triggered global protests by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed said Charlie Hebdo had "paid the highest price" for defending press freedom.

" Charlie Hebdo didn't shut up … and they have now paid the highest price for that," former culture editor Flemming Rose told Jyllands-Posten.

The newspaper, where he is now a foreign affairs editor, reportedly raised security after the deadly Paris attack.

"Here at Jyllands-Posten we live with extensive security measures. There have been a whole raft of incidents concerning Islam and violence" over the past 10 years or so, Rose said.

In 2013, Charbonnier appeared on a "Wanted Dead or Alive" list published in al-Qaeda's magazine, Inspire.

" Charlie Hebdo became a symbol," said Louis Caprioli, former counter-terrorism head at France's DST intelligence agency.

"They never forgot nor forgave what they considered a supreme insult. The choice of this target is highly symbolic: they targeted secularists who dared to mock the Prophet. In their eyes, it's divine vengeance."

In a tragic irony, Charbonnier's last cartoon predicted his own death. The latest edition of the weekly shows a gun-toting Islamic terrorist saying: "Still no attacks in France? Wait - we've still got until the end of January to present our best wishes."

The comment was typical of Charbonnier, who was always defiant, calling it an issue of democracy, freedom of speech and, in short, the right to laugh.

"The accusation that we are pouring oil on the flames really gets on my nerves," Charbonnier told the German magazine Der Spiegel in 2012 after the disrobed Mohammed cartoon was published. "After the publication of this absurd and grotesque film about Mohammed in the US, other newspapers have responded to the protests with cover stories. We are doing the same thing, but with drawings.

"And a drawing has never killed anyone."

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