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January 12, 2015

Charlie Hebdo, Supermarket Gunmen Claim Militant Ties as al-Qaeda Takes Credit 
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The massive protests in France came two days after the gunmen who
attacked the magazine, Chérif and Said Kouachi, were killed by police
after a siege at a printing works following a three-day manhunt. Minutes
after the print shop assault, police broke a second siege at a kosher
Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris. Four hostages died there along with
the gunman, Amedy Coulibaly. Before his death on Friday, Chérif Kouachi
told a French television station he received financing from the Islamic
cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Both brothers reportedly traveled to
Yemen in 2011 and had weapons training in the deserts of Marib, an
al-Qaeda stronghold. A video released over the weekend meanwhile shows
Amedy Coulibaly pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. Meanwhile, a
source within al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, has provided
The Intercept with a full statement claiming responsibility for the
Charlie Hebdo attack.