the 12 who are killed today. some held up signs like you see here. others held up pens in support of freedom of speech and illustration. i'm john siegenthaler. i'll see you at 11:00. "america tonight" is next. aa. >> on "america tonight," paris in mourning. but not in fear. voices of free speech arounds the world stand up in the face uf its nerch. hours after theof its 9/11. why so many are standing up to say je suis charlie. we'll have the latest on the man hunt for the killers and minute-by-minute detail of how they carried out their vicious assault. "america tonight"'s sheila

macvicar with a parisian perspective of how the police are handling this terror attack and how a little known are paris magazine became the target of this attack. and still up. >> house on fire, house on fire. >> an explosion in pot use and marijuana edibles as colorado marks its first year with legalized weed. "america tonight"'s lori jane gliha on the dark side of the recycle mountain state's year on pot. >> as dangerous as explosive as be hard drugs are now. >> and good evening thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. for france this is a 9/11

moment. a nation in mourning for the horrific terror attacks on cartoonists at an obscures is a tir call magazine, defending their december is a tir call magazine. oofns expwhrk frerch police launched a nationwide man you hunt tracking down the suspects. they quickly identified. sheila macvicar has that this hour. >> many like in august this year, there is a police car in front of the offices of charlie hebdo. not today. just after 11:00 a.m., a black citroen. three men wearing black masks stepped into the street demandings from a passing bicyclist, the address of

charlie hebdo. they shot both, killing one. ray told the french newspaper lhumanite. the gunmen spoke perfect french. inside the magazine answer conference room the weekly editorial meeting. >> the two men opened fire in bursts killing two he be men in the room among eight were journalists. one policeman acting as a bodyguard for one of the managers and one guest. according the one of the witnesses, the shooters wering shooting ala akhbar. >> streesms of blood at least 20 were injured and chearld hebdo's editor in chief. sharp kabu, tinu and wallinski

all veterans of the decades long provocation of all kinds. charlie hebdo satirized everyone. those of every faith. but drew's special ire of being protests around the globe. that led in 2011 to you the fire bombing of the magazine's then headquarters. since then, the magazine's editor charb has been under police protection. his bodyguard died in the conference room with him. but the magazine continued its ferocious continuation ever freedom of expression. the carnage did not end in the building. as they were making their mistake, police arrived one begunman after wounding a policeman turned and went back

and while onlookers heard the officer beg for his life, the gunman replied "you wanted to kill me," and shot him point blank. he was the second police officer to die. it's these glimpse of the gunmen cold determined methodical, that led you counters counterterrorists to believe they were well trained. abandoned their black citroen hijacking another. paris has seen terror attacks before but never like this. leading to an unprecedented man hunt and somber reflection.

"america tonight's" sheila macvicar with us. this has launched a drag nut around france. >> they have called in everything they have. we have seeing raids in paris in the north city of reims and chauauvin mes inker we hear they took in the youngest of the three suspects, presumably homeless tonight they found him at a relative's home. the others french of algerian origin, 34 and 32 years old one previously convicted of his involvement in a network that was sending young french nationals to fight against the american led coalition in iraq in that war there he did time in prison for that. there has been no trace. they have been in a family home.

the police tonight looking for additional evidence but so far there is no trace and there is no trace of the car as far as we know. that they used to finally make their escape from paris. >> fascinating we want to bring into the discussion dr. david garston ross, senior fellow at the defense of democracies. it's remarkable, i haven't seen anybody come out and make a public claim of responsibility, tie in to al qaeda i.s.i.s who? >> public declaration of responsibilities often takes a while. al qaeda did not make a claim of responsibility for a full year, in this case i expect a much faster claim of responsibilities if it's attached to a group which it increasingly looks like it is. the reason being, you have this major competition for dominance of global jihad by al qaeda and

i.s.i.s. >> they want to make a claim for that? >> we heard from eyewitnesses who reported that not only were the gunmen speaking in perfect french which strongly suggest they are french nationals they also said we are al qaeda. there are several witnesses who reported them saying that. but again unknown. >> and very striking here as sheila you mentioned in your report, the level of professionalism as it were for these actors in this situation and an indication that it's not just three guys on their own. >> yes i think that's a good point. they are not as highly trained as commandos are. crossing in fronts of each other, for example. but received some military experience in syria -- >> they knew how to hold their guns? >> they knew how to hold their guns. they were checking for anyone crossing them, they were

clearing paths before them, there were things they were doing that they were doing very right. so i think when all is said and done, we don't know right 90, but i strongly suspect that they will have received some type of military experience during their teem in syria. >> people who speak perfects french, clear relationship to france and yet with the kinds of training that must have come from somewhere else. >> this is the ticking time bomb that so many have been warning about. we don't know for certain that these two individuals went to syria. there is speculation that they have been involved in syria but certainly the former chief of the french interior service said today given their demeanor, given everything about the way they moved it was his opinion that they clearly had received training somewhere and that training might even have been in france. remember, one of these brothers was being watched. he as somebody who had been convicted of links to a terror organization, he would have been on the radar.

if he slipped out of the country and went to syria and was trained in syria after he got out of jail, that is an enormous black eye for french intelligence services. >> which the french security operation is quite a thorough operation, high-functioning and in this particular case already paying a good deal of attention to the magazine and to the editors and cartoonists,. >> but with a very big problem. you've had 700 good over to syria. reported in places like mcclatchy, but last month you had like three consecutive days in france where terrorist attacks were carried out. a stabbing in a police station a man driving his car into christmas market. they have a ream problem which means that even though they -- real problem which means even

though they have high regard for privacy they have such a problem on their hands that they can't have their handle on all of it. >> the other part of this of course we should also talk about the gun. in an american context two men armed with an automatic rming weapon is not that unusual. but in france it is extremely unusual. french officials will wonder where they got those guns, they willen squeezing everyone in the underworld looking for source ever those guns. >> how different are things in france. how do the french operate and keep a lid on things? >> that's something it flected the police response, the police rushing in and seeing what kinds

of weapons they had and then backing outs, they were more well armed. >> there were something suggestions that there was a rocket propelled grenade available to these people as well. >> that has been thought but then not profnl. the amount of traij there also are some funny aspects ever this. they had the address wrong. >> they didn't know how to get in. >> they didn't know how to get in. they basically had to tie woman hostage. and they left a piece of important i.d. in their original car. >> fascinating. we'll learn more "america tonight's" sheila macvicar thanks very much. and we'll follow the mourning in pairs later in this hour. our correspondent in last de la republiqu every.

republique. later this hour, with the correspondent on why the french are determined not to be silenced in the wake of this assault. right after the break: busted, colorado's year of rocky mountain highs are giving away to sheer terror. >> you thought you were going to die? >> i said it probably 20 times i am going to have a latter attack right now. >> lori jane gliha on colorado's year in pot. in pot.

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>> welcome back. we're following developments in paris, later in the hour. the colorado rockies the first state to leltz legalize marijuana just one year ago. it's been in the middle of a pot boom but there's increasing concern about the darker side of those rocky mountain highs. "america tonight's" lori jane gliha finding unintended consequences. >> i really lost track ever reality and project he can tile vomiting in the car. >> you felts you were going to die? >> i said it, 20 times i'm going to die. >> he never expected to od on marijuana. >> i felt like i got poisoned. >> the 35-year-old father and video game designer said he and his wife parked their little

boys with his father while they checked out the pot pavilion. there wasn't expected to be any pot there because it can only be sold at licensed sites. >> 21 and up you can't buy it or smoke it. >> he found a booth that caught his eye. >> it was kind of a willie wonkaka factor. i started eating some chocolates. >> less than an hour later coombs said he became totally disoriented. he asked his wife to take him to the nearest hospital. you know where a hospital is, why are you trying to kill me? >> after a terrifying l ride to a hospital, medical workers diagnosed him as overdose of thc, the active ingredient in

marijuana. >> i'd be as mad as if i was at mcdonald's and they were giving me bad beef. you can't do this. >> coombs is one of seven people suing the company for thc poisoning. >> would you ever take marijuana? >> i would never do its begin. >> the psychoactive treats known as edibles are also the source of a string of disturbing incidents. last march levi pongee schooled a marijuana cookie and jumped to his death from the sixth floor of his hotel. christine called the police and told them her husband had schooled marijuana laced many food and she was shot before the

police could arrive. sharp increase from preserves years, children going to hospital for marijuana ingestion. >> they come in essentially a tootsie roll. you need to eat an 8th of that. >> the string of incidents has called for ban of edibles. >> the marijuana industry a couple of months ago -- >> dixie elixirs and edibles. >> what went dwhrur mind when that suggestion came forward maybe we should ban all edibles? >> infused products which is the overarching category, lori, represents 50% of a $750 million industry. the state of colorado is profiting immensely off of this.

>> why does it have to look like a candy or something nonappetizing to a child? >> there is nothing specific about the constitutional amendment requires a product to look in any form or fashion. its just allows for the rights of infused products to exist. >> kiefer's company has been behind the one dose one soda product, but emergencies rules limit the amount of pot in edibles forcing some off the shelves. >> so what you're seeing here is production room number 1 where all of our infused products mostly edibles if you will we're making our failous colorado bar. that product will be retired on february 1st. it is our third best selling product because it could not be scored into 10 milligram doses so it's going to be replaced 50

white chocolates peppermint bar. >> you want to reform your products uh product line to. >> becannabis concentrates can reach up to 90% thc content. at the private marijuana social club on the outskirts ever denver almost everyone is dabbing. while dabs can be manufactured slave using expensive commercial equipment, a rising number of home cooks are watching how to videos on youtube. >> you squish it down. >> the house is on fire!

>> using volatile butane. >> more dangerous than meth labs now. >> kevin traction the growth of home thc extraction labs. >> oftentimes there's children in the home and they can get injured, they can even die. same thing with the person who is actually conducting the lab experiments right? they are holdings a pyrex dish, and once that ignition ignites the fumes they go up in flames. the impact of the explosion can endanger your neighbors. >> this is one of our most recent ones where the actual structure caught on fire. >> according to wong the number of explosions have nearly doubled in the last year to 32

since legalization has gone into effect. >> no skin here? >> completely singed back. the inside of the palm, that is his skin peeling away. >> whiling suburbs of denver, in many places it is still perfectly legal. >> we basically put marijuana i've grinded it up a little bit. >> you might call robert tillory lucky. he says he ud survived a butane hash oil explosion in 2009. he went right back to extracting thc. >> you do it out in a well ventilated area like this. >> haven't you seen people outside who have done that and it doesn't go well, either? >> i've never witnessed it not going well, unless there was a

spark or a flame around. >> he says he's found a safe way to work with butane and wants to educate others. >> you can educate people fairly quickly, you make this every day? >> i make it every day. >> you think dabs are the next best thing? >> dabs are the next wave to go through communities. wherever people have not experienced it, when they get them they are going to wants to try them. >> the victims of these explosions often end up here at the university ever colorado's burn unit. >> this is our tub room, this is the place where most of our patients come. >> dr. gordon lindburg is the unit's medical director. >> we had two in the last month and another one showed up just three days ago. >> lindburg noticed there was something different about the patients injured in hash oil burns. the usual painkillers had no

effect. >> the first patients that came in we were giving them the narcotics we used, they weren't working. >> as a hunch the doctor used maranol, in other words synthetic thmpletc. >> they were able to keep calories in. >> lindbergh said his patients had been in marijuana withdrawal and needed thc to recover. >> what i worry about is how much marijuana people are taking now as a result of these laws. we never had people falling off of balconies. we never had people ending up in emergency rooms with frank psychosis from too much marijuana. we never had people withdrawing from it. now with these extraction manufacturers, you are dealing

with almost pure thc and putting it into candy. >> so far the casualties are small but it may increase as state authorities scramble to keep up. >> problems you didn't expect "america tonight"'s lori jane gliha. lori jane, dabbing is not new but the use ever it has increased because of the legalization. >> it's not new but it's easier to get the cannabis now and people can save money make it themselves and they believe they're doing it legally and there's a little bit of a gray area what is legal. the law enforcement agencies that cannot stop people from doing its they are charging them with arson and child endangerment, if they cause a fire. but the colorado state attorney general contradicts that, saying it might be legal, this is a public safety issue not what

the voters intended whether they passed this law and he believes its shouldn't be allowed. >> speaking of the unintended consequences of what's happened to the legalization, before colorado actually made their marijuana use legal you went to amsterdam and you spoke to people there and they warned that colorado may face these problems. >> i went and interviewed this guy in a coffee shop where they sell the pot. he said he used to sell milk shakes and bonbons and he doesn't sell it anymore. he sells only one specific type of edible. that was a warning he gave to the united states, people don't know how to handle the edibles. that's what the state legislature is going to tape, allow to protect people from edibles, education is key. >> after a year lawmakers are taking another look at some of these rules. "america tonight"'s lori jane

gliha, thanks. what about the medical benefits of marijuana? thursday, we'll follow up on "america tonight's" in-depth look at legalized marijuana. "america tonight"'s jake ward. >> studying aspirin or prozac or lsd, that's it. all we have to do is get the study drug and start the study. for marijuana we go into a whole other series of reviews. >> our in depth look at pot colorado's experience with its year on pot. that's thursday on "america tonight." after the break this hour, the latest from paris. as thousands gather to honor liberte, and insist they won't be silenced. lp

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the plane disappeared. a new act in an old case. los angeles prosecutors want poland to extradite roman polanski. the 81-year-old director he fled the united states after he pled guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. a bombing and a mystery. the fbi investigating whether an explosive dwief near device that exploded near a colorado naacp office. >> the attack in paishes at leastin paris.eight people died at least six of them there journalists. and the suspects are frenchmen

brothers. , in the meantime, an outpouring of grief and solidarity with victims as thousands attend vigils in london, paris berlin and washington d.c. barnaby phillips, these are enormous crowds but is there any sense of fear among the people gathered? >> i think there is some sense of fear, yes. if you talk to people and you say, "are you afraid after what's happened?" they say well yes. who wouldn't be. when this happens in your society in your city, it is a frightening thing. the question people have responsibilities to answer is how do you respond to that? and undoubtedly the thousands of people have come out in paris and let's not forget in other major french cities, miles lyon so on. they have to show while we are

frightened we will not let it change our way of life, we will not let it change our values. and that determination has been strong, very evident in the crowds here in place de la republique here in paris. >> after 9/11, people came into the streets they really wanted to unify with each other. an attack is very unprecedented right there in the heart of paris. >> it is certainly a day that many, many people in france will never forget. and yes they will be swapping stories undoubtedly for years to come of where they were when they heard about this. when i initially came into the crowd around 6 teem in:00 in the evening paris time, i felt a sense of shock at that time. the vast majorities of people

were standing quite silently, many were in tears. occasionally they would chant cha charlie charlie. i don't read charlie hebdo i'm often quite offended by it, i don't necessarily think its cartoons are in good taste but i youabsolutely defend its right and its cartoonists right to create what they please. >> have you seen any evidence of age are or particularly any anti-muslim sentiment given what's thought about the suspects? >> anger yes. but i would say restrained age are. and i haven't seen eants -- seen anti-muslim

centsment. that's not to say it's not there there or it won't bubble up in the days to come. the mood in the crowd i would have to say dignified and restrained. president hollande was telling the people in his address that we must stay united. that is happening in the time being. but of course in the days and weeks and months and years ahead this could lead to very serious divisions in french society and it puts many many people in france in a very uncomfortable and anxious situation. >> al jazeera answer's barnaby phillips in paris. we're joined by phillip krother the french correspondent for france 24.

antiislamic centsment that has has existed in urine. >> nice that he's not getting any indications of it in that vigil in paris but france at this point is a polarized country after all. it is a country that politically is very divided remember that the far right is pretty powerful in france at the moment. there is a large amount of muslim youth you if will that might feel disenfranchised, that is some of the analysis that will be happening over the next days and weeks where this whole thing might have come from. but these kinds of vij thails we're seeing not -- vigils that we are seeing, in the weeks to come, first of all these are groups that we'll just have to accept and analyze that this is a polarized country right now that people don't really get along all that well. and that is the kind of analysis that will go into this. what might have motivated these

three people? we don't know whether these are people when might have learned something from abroad, who might have traveled from abroad to get training or inspiration. there is one important sentence from one of the attackers we've heard from them but it's that one sentence, when one man shouts out, this is revenge for the prophet muhammed. that takes us back to 2012. >> this magazine in particular is sort of equal-handed in attacking all end ends, right left and all faiths as well. tell us about the magazine, what it has done? >> hated by many but defended by many at all. it attacks all religions. all be it christianity, muslim faith, it does so unashamedly and repeatedly. there has been many depictions of the prophet muhammed.

>> and it's been ton front page before. >> absolutely it has. there was a fire bomb attack one year and olot of controversy comes towards this satirical newspaper. that's how it becomes famous or infamous if you will. it doesn't sell that many copies but it is very very well-known. it looks like the depiction of the prophet muhammed many times over in charlie hebdo may have motivated there attack. that's the only sentence that we have heard from these attackers that they say it is revenge for prophet muhammed. which might there will be speculation about the case, that is for of course another time. we don't know what the motivations are and there hasn't been any view yet from any terrorist organizations saying this is us. >> thank you for your input. >> thank you. >> now to the war ravaged syria

where the guns have fallen silent now but only because of a i have powerful winter storm. the refugees are hardest hit by the low temperatures. sleeping in makeshift tents along the being lebanese border. including children. jane ferguson in beirut. >> if the snow keeps coming their tents will collapse. syrians try to avoid being entirely submerged. >> we don't have bread or heating oil. look at me, i'm 55 years old. we don't have anything. no food no water no relief aid absolutely nothing. >> snow usually hits these areas in the valley in winters.

but particularly cruel to the hundreds of thousands fleeing syria. >> we need heating oil so our children won't die. >> the united nations have handed out food and heating supplies but lebanon has no formal camps for syrians. they are scattered throughout a huge area and reaching everyone in the snow is difficult. >> refugees are scattered over 1700 locations whereas this time last year we estimated that 30% were living if insecure dwellings, this year it's around 50 pictures. people are living if these informal settings which have four tents or 50 or 100 plus they live in unfinished buildings, animal sheds and storage facilities. >> reporter: the storm is affecting multiple areas across the region. but syrian refugees in lebanon

are the most vulnerable. now they must battle nature for their survival. jane ferguson, al jazeera beirut. >> when we return to "america tonight," back to school, and the effort to improve public education, what is common core. >> how is what you're doing now different from what you're doing. >> old system here is your quiz. 20 multiple choice, matching, whatever. new system, explain how did you that. justify it with textual evidence. you can't copy it. you can't fake it. >> but you can fight it. >> "america tonight" answer michael's michaelokwu with the in america's classrooms. tblp

>> the holiday's over, kids got back to school this week at the start of what is expected to be acrucial year for the common core standards. as picked, 46 states were on board but then four repealed it. now more lawmakers are taking aim on common core. "america tonight"'s michael okwu why this teaching method has reached so much controversy. >> in the first week of the school year, things were a

little different at mcdonough 42. instead of multiplication tables or tackling stats by rote, students were identifying. >> some of the words were missing, why? >> english were different too. in trace rag ld'sland's class. >> why can't he tell the guys hey, the pile is dead? you think he's not sure? >> how is what you're doing now different than what you were doing before? >> old systems. here's your quiz.

20 multiple choice. matching whatever. new system: explain how you did that. justify it with textual evidence. you can't copy it. you can't fake it. >> this new approach was inspired by common core. a set of national academic standards in math and english that went into effect lafers year. last year. the initiative outlines what every students in america should know by the end of 5th grade. >> we saw our job as defining what students needed to learn. >> phil darrow, a san francisco based math educator, was on the team thatting modeled the are mat standards. >> our curriculum was a mile wide and an inch deep when you compare it to the curriculum in high performing countries. so in japan they might spend a week and a half on a topic and

here we would spend three days. it's not necessarily magic why more of their students learn it. the transition is tough for teachers and school districts. >> reporter: how difficult has it been to make the transition? >> it's been a really, really steep learning curve. you know teaching for 15 years i had every lesson plan you could possibly think of. oh you know comparative adverbs, yes can i do that in my sleep. but common core students can think critically i think. >> students learn at a deeper academic level. >> mickey landry is the executive director of choice foundation which runs this school and two others in new orleans. his staff studied for two years to implement these standards. a you bipartisan group of

governors and education professionals, came to the same conclusion when they developed the standards in 2010. they were buildings on the bush's no child left behind policy. encouraging states to do the same if they wanted in on federal race to the top funds. in 2012, louisiana's republican governor bobby jindal announced his support for the common core at a choice foundation school with mickey landry right there by his side. >> parents and kids should not be trapped in a failing school because of their zip code income gender or color. >> but last summer the governor did a 180 announcing he wanted louisiana to join three other states oklahoma, indiana and south carolina in rejecting the standards. >> at some points you have to say enough is enough and this is where we're drawing the line in louisiana. >> how could he on the one hand in 2012 come to one of our

schools and declare that he was going to raise the standards and raise the rigor for curriculum, because that's what our children needed to compete in the world they're going to live in as adults and then pull the rug outs from under us? >> that is what it felt like, he was pulling the rug out from under you? >> absolutely. it totally baffled me. but when you look at the political world he lives in and you look at the competition he's got for you know republican presidential nomination or vice presidential nomination, they had all pulled away from common core. and i guess that's a calculation he made. >> landry and a group of educators sued governor jindal, to prevent him from pulling out of common core. and in august a judge ruled in their favor. not ready to admit defeat, governor jindal filed suit against the obama

administration claiming it's forcing states to adopt common core. "america tonight" requested an interview with governor jindal but he declined. republican governors who once signed on to the core, are now distancing themselves, conservatives like glen beck who's casted as the latest big government intrusion. in july he hosted a live event broadcast at movie theaters across the country where he taught parents not oconform but rather to fight -- to conform but rather to fight what's known as obama core, like you can obamacare. >> look, i'm a vet nam era veteran, i'm not a communist. coy just as easily called those

people klansmen. >> are you party of the tea party? >> no. i admit i'm a liberal. >> across lake ponchartrain some teachers are organize against common core. they say politics aside there are reasons the oppose it. aima.m.ya.m.samy dutch is home schooling her kids. but what really seems to bother parents like aim amy dutch common core actually confuses children. >> i still am to this day fixing his math as i home-school.

we had this problem jim had two quarters and a 96ing and he wanted to buy a candy bar costing 50 cents. five questions later asking the same number problem explain how you answered your problem. he said i know because i listened. i can't argue with that. >> there is a problem that was phrased, a variety of different ways. >> yeah. >> essentially asking the same thing. >> right right which is a valid method but i wasn't seeing let's also make sure we know all these math facts so we can answer the problem. >> across the country parents have raised similar concerns. comedian louie c.k and this pearchesappearance on letterman.

>> bill has two dogs he buys two more. how many dogs live in london. >> these methods have worked in japan and singapore. >> two plus two still equals four. the kids still have to be fluent with the basic addition, subtraction division and multiplication. >> that hasn't satisfied uraniums satisfieds amy dutch and other patients. for now it's still the law. at the center of this political storm the students here, still getting used to this new way of learning. the only question, even their

teachers can't answer, is how long it will last. michael okwu, new orleans, al jazeera. >> ahead here, a final thought this hour about the mighty pen and why extremists fear that powerful tool, honoring those who died for free speech and charlie.

>> finally this hour, a thought about freedom of speech and the silent strength of the pen. charb, stefan charbonnet, the killers flew for some time now that they were out to get him. but he said several years ago didn't have time to be afraid.

i prefer to die he said then, than live like a rat. a bit of irony as cartoonists are often silent, letting their work speak for them. being charb's favorite artists all around the world took up their is pens to offer tribute. >> it was the cartoon read, a bad day for humor. but it wasn't one the artists would give up at least not without a fight. is it truly a world so serious that humor is a risky business? one from can rvetion abouterra to washington, to rio in brazil to the netherlands. all owf hearts and all art are with chearld hebdo. we share the same grief live the same pain, one we learned in this country not so very long ago. today i am a cartoonist.

today i am a journalist, today i draw for charlie hebdo. what is mightier than sword? the pen the weapon of wit, in the power ever freedom to speak and the trite grief for little charlie lost but not forgotten. charlie and the artists who will speak again. that's mairnlt. if youthat's "america tonight."if you would like to comment log on to aljazeera.com/americatonight. we'll have more of our show tomorrow. >> hundreds of days in detention. >> al jazeera rejects all the

charges and demands immediate release. >> thousands calling for their freedom. >> it's a clear violation of their human rights. >> we have strongly urged the government to release those journalists. >> journalism is not a crime. >> a break in the case of terrorists who slaughtered 12 people at the officest much a french satirical newspaper. welcome to "consider this," a special edition of, we'll hear from the editor who was killed in an interview he gave two years ago. we'll also look at the threats against u.s., whether muslim moderates are doing enough t