Thursday, January 15, 2015

And again, don't be suckered into how things seem............yes, Arabics could have been behind this................but investigate, and do not assume.........just b/c money came from Yemen does not mean that the people are Muslim or the perpetrators Arabic........



The possible accomplice

French security services have identified a suspected accomplice in that attack, according to the French newspaper Le Parisien.
Police sources cited by the newspaper said one line of investigation is that the accomplice, a man from a Paris suburb, may have driven gunman Amedy Coulibaly to the kosher supermarket, where Coulibaly later shot dead four people.
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Coulibaly was killed in a police raid to end the siege. The Kouachi brothers also are dead. But investigators' efforts to track down possible suspects tied to last week's attacks are continuing.
Le Parisien's report said investigators identified Coulibaly's suspected accomplice using keys for a motorbike discovered in an apartment they raided over the weekend.
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Also found inside the apartment, according to Le Parisien: a stash of weapons, explosives and two ISIS flags.
Coulibaly purportedly told authorities before he was killed that he belonged to ISIS.
Police also think the suspected accomplice may have been responsible for shooting and wounding a jogger last week -- an attack that the Paris prosecutor has said could be tied to Coulibaly because the ammunition used was the same as ammunition found at the scene of the kosher market attack, Le Parisien said.
Paris police would not comment to CNN on the contents of the report.
Le Parisien says Coulibaly's suspected accomplice, whom the newspaper did not name, may have fled France, possibly for Syria.
Officials have also said they believe Hayat Boumeddiene, Coulibaly's widow, may have played a role in the attacks and has fled to Syria.

The arms connection

Belgian federal prosecutors told CNN on Thursday that a man is under arrest in Charleroi in connection with arms trafficking. They said he recently bought a car from Boumeddiene.
Prosecutors said the man was "known to police" but couldn't be directly linked to Coulibaly.
According to Belgian media, the man went to police after learning about last week's shootings. They then searched his house and found documents that matched the type of gun Coulibaly used in Paris.
CNN has not been able to independently confirm the details of the raid on the man's home or the documents found, after contacting police.

The money trail

U.S. officials have told CNN it's believed that when Cherif Kouachi traveled to Yemen in 2011, he returned carrying money from AQAP earmarked to carry out the attack. Investigators said the terrorist group could have given as much as $20,000, but the exact amount has not been verified.
French newspaper La Voix du Nord reports that Coulibaly also secured funds that may have been used in the attack on the kosher supermarket.
He got the loan for $7,000 (6,000 euros) from the Cofidis Bank in Villeneuve d'Ascq, in northern France.
The paper reported the amount that Coulibaly borrowed was not high enough to require an explanation of how the money would be spent. He took out the loan in December.

Obama and Cameron

U.S. President Barack Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron are expected to discuss the Paris attacks when they meet Thursday and Friday in Washington.
The two leaders pledged to safeguard "our way of life" in a jointly written opinion piece for the Times of London.
"We will continue to stand together against those who threaten our values and our way of life," they said in Thursday's edition.
"Along with our French allies, we have made clear to those who think they can muzzle freedom of speech and expression with violence that our voices will only grow louder."

More terror cases

With France on its highest level of alert, 10,000 troops have deployed across the country. Thousands of police officers are on patrol, including hundreds assigned to protect Jewish schools.
Since the attacks, dozens of cases have been opened in France against people accused of expressing support for terrorism since the attacks, the Justice Ministry said.
It's unclear how many people are blamed for the 54 infractions. The cases include investigations involving phone threats, cyberattacks and Facebook posts, the ministry said.
Some are in prison awaiting trial, some have already been convicted, and some have been released with a notice of a court date, ministry spokesman Pierre Rance said. Penalties for the alleged crimes vary, he said.
Justice Minister Christiane Taubira "considers that words or actions of a racist or anti-Semitic nature, or that cause hateful, violent, or discriminatory behavior, or advocate terrorism, or target security forces must be fought and pursued with the utmost vigor," her office said in a statement.
She "asked prosecutors to exercise extreme reactivity in the conduct of public action against the perpetrators of such crimes," the statement said.

Paris on edge

CNN affiliate BFMTV on Thursday reported a scare outside the Elysee Palace, the official residence of French President Francois Hollande.
A car drove the wrong way up a one-way street and struck a police officer, who was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. The driver had been drinking, authorities say.
Police don't believe it has anything to do with the terror attacks, and Hollande was not at the palace at the time of the incident.

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