
Report: Charlie Hebdo Killers Texted Kosher Deli Attacker to ‘Coordinate’
On February 17, CNN reported that the Charlie Hebdo gunmen texted the Kosher deli gunman an hour before launching their January 7 attack on the satirical newspaper.

On February 17, CNN reported that the Charlie Hebdo gunmen texted the Kosher deli gunman an hour before launching their January 7 attack on the satirical newspaper.

French authorities arrested Charlie Hebdo gunman Cherif Kouachi in 2005 for his participation in a plot to bring jihadists into Iraq. A court found him guilty in 2008, but in a video resurfacing in light of this month’s attack, he proclaims his innocence.

Criticism is mounting against French officials for not doing more to prevent Wednesday’s terrorist attack by means of closer surveillance of the two brothers who carried out the attack.

Charlie Hebdo editor and cartoonist Stéphane Charbonnier, also known as Charb, appeared on a hit list in the March 2013 issue of al-Qaeda’s Inspire propaganda magazine. Twitter accounts posted the same picture on Wednesday, but with a huge red X over Charbonnier’s picture.

U.S. counterterrorism officials report one of three suspects who attacked Charlie Hebdo has been killed and the two others are in custody.