2 Gunmen, who storm French magazine office where 12 staff died, identified

 

2 gunmen (pictured above) who stormed the headquarters of French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, yesterday afternoon and opened fire on staff, killing 12 people and wounding 10, including reporters, administrative staff and two police police officers has been identified.

The Brothers, who are both from Paris are Cherif Kouachi (left), 32, & Said Kouachi (right), 34. A third suspect, 18 year old Hamyd Mourad, who didn't fire any shorts, surrendered to police late last night after seeing his name circulating on social media. 

According to local media reports, some witnesses claimed that the attackers stalked the building for a few minutes, asking for people that work at the magazine by name before opening fire, and killing the mag's editor and cartoonist while they were having their editorial meeting.

The attack is said to be in revenge for the magazine's mockery of the Holy Prophet Mohammed in a cartoon. Meanwhile the two brothers, who are said to have been trained in Yemen as assassins, are still at large.

 

All 7 suspects including Cherif Kouachi were arrested and sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for terrorism in Paris in May 2008. And were accused of sending about a dozen young Frenchmen to join Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, after funneling them through radical religious establishments in Syria and Egypt. However, French authorities believed Kouachi had been planning to go to Syria for training in 2005.