January 08, 2015
A graphic photo showing the carnage was released. The photo shows a disheveled room, bloodied footprints and paper strewn across the floor.
And more details are also being released on the two suspects — brothers Said Kouachi, 34, and Cherif Kouachi, 32 — police are hunting. NBC News reports that they have ties to al-Qaeda.
Said Kouachi ... traveled to Yemen in 2011 to be trained by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, two senior U.S. counterterrorism officials told NBC News on Thursday. The training lasted for several months, one of the officials said.
No other details were immediately available, but the disclosure added to the evidence that the [suspects] had been on counterterrorism agencies' radar for several years before the attack Wednesday ... A Homeland Security official told NBC News separately on Thursday that the brothers had been in the U.S. terrorism database and on the U.S. no-fly list "for years."
Cherif, along with six other men, was sentenced to prison in 2008 for helping militant networks funnel fighters into Iraq. He served 18 months of his 3-year sentence, NBC News said.
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