Suspicion of the attackers in the Wednesday strike on a satirical Paris magazine has centered around a pair of brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, French-born men born to Algerian parents.A third named suspect, 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, has turned himself in but appears to have an alibi.
The two were said to have been on police radar for many years, and Cherif had even been convicted terrorism charges, given three years in prison, half of it a suspended sentence.
Most noteworthy, the two had returned from Syria only this past summer, which would likely explain why the attackers appeared to have extensive combat experience.
It is unclear which group the two were fighting with when they went to Syria, though there were reports from eyewitnesses who said the gunmen had identified themselves as being with “Yemeni al-Qaeda,” suggesting they may have been somehow affiliated with al-Nusra, the primary al-Qaeda faction in Syria.
The Syria connection will inevitably raise further concerns about the many thousands of Europeans who have gone to Syria to join ISIS, Nusra, and other Islamist factions, and what will happen when they begin returning en masse.
The Kouachi brothers were even known risks, and known to have returned recently form Syria, and if they prove to be guilty that means they were still able to carry out a massive attack. With many of the others totally unidentified, their ability to launch attacks will be all the greater.
The ability to launch attacks is really just the capacity to find a suitable weapon and the willingness to use it. The willingness part, at least in the states, is generally associated with prescription meds having uncannily appropriate warnings on their labels.
Getting away was probably what's speshul about this one.
If there was not a Syrian civil war, this would not of happened. A French pizza delivery man gets high and mighty and becomes God's avenger.
Sorry, your logic is faulty. There is not enough information to make the jump to your conclusion. Syria is not the only place where wannabe jihadis can go to get combat experience. The Iraq fiasco has been going on for over 10 years…
Its a question of magnitude and ease
1.How are there ready-made illegal weapons transport networks in France and Europe for the Jihadist?
2. How are there such extensive recruiting networks at mosques?
Answer: There is a hot war on Turkey's border supported by Gulf money and various governments.
The Obama administration has constantly tried to overthrown the Syrian government. Weapons from Libya have made their way to Syrian civil war.
Syria is the embers that keeps a constant supply on Jihadists always in the mix.
I submit to you:
1.Israel (intelligence) and policy are doing what they did in the Iran/Iraq war:
A. Keeping the war going and bleeding both sides. A so called balence of weakness.
These two French brothers, orphans of Algerian decent pump themselves up on their god-trip. Killing soft target journalist for some pie-in-the-sky reason is easier than warfare in Syria. They are trying to squeeze victory by trapping at straws.pplll
Much information, but never what is really important:
Al Qaida was an invention of the "nice US President Jimmy Carter" in 1979. He is the father of this US-killer fraction of Islamists and did sent them against the communist government of Afghanistan.
Here is the proof of his security-advicer Brzezinski, he said:
“…, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and (…) giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.”
Of course these "opponents" , the new Islamist killing fraction called Al Qaeda required to first being created:
Washington Post, 23 March 2002:
“The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings….The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system’s core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books,..”,
This long-term planning fits well to the long list of wars where USA did apply its Al CIAda killer Islamists: in wars like in Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Kosovo), Chechnya, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Mali, etc.
Just in non-Islamic countries, they use their fascists of their NATO Gladio organization: e.g. Croatian or Ukrainan Fascist like Jazeniuk.
When I first heard that the Kouachi brothers might be affiliated with Yemeni al-Qaeda, my first thought was that they could be avenging President Obama's continuous drone bombing of that country. The West now has a major clash of civilizations on its hands that is largely of its own making. Everything has literally gone to hell since the Bushes (with no help from Clinton) took out their personal vendetta on Saddam Hussein. Perhaps so many millions of Arabs and others from the Middle East have emigrated to Europe in part because the West (USA/UK/ France) have made their countries unlivable.
Seems to me that it was known in advance about an imminent attack. Reminds me of the movie Minority Report ! It all could have been avoided but big business/governments care less about the blood on their hands.
ROOT CAUSE
France is second only to Empire USA when it comes to plundering the Middle-East and Africa. And with the French Foreign Legion coming and going, with al-Qaeda’s major complaint being Western troops stationed in the holy Muslim lands and with vengeance being nearly impossible to appease without the shedding of blood, if the rich ruling class of France will not repent, then pity their terrified people from now on.