you talked about cherif.in fact served time 18 months for terror-related charge ended up meeting apparently reportedly al qaeda contacts while he was serving time so what is the issue here as far as where these holes are being exposed in the french system? is it about the harsh punishment that perhaps needs to be readdressed or is it about the flip side social outreach to many perhaps arab or north africans in france and more inclusion for them? where do you think the hole is exactly? >> social outreach does get mentioned a lot, but we have to keep in mind that these individuals have bought into an ideology whether it is from al qaeda in the raven peninsula or whether it is isis in iraq the narrative is very much a warped ideology where they have shown no mercy in killing civilians like the journalists and the muslim police officer that was shot dead on the streets of paris. there has to be an investigation into the network developed in france that has largely gone unnoticed. if cherif kouachi got further rad

said and cherif kouachi. they are warning french that these are dangerous. one suspect. ham mourad, turned himself in. >> few people understand the dangerous business. few people under that more than the american writer and activist and the critic of islamic treatment of women. she was forced into hiding in the netherlands after receiving threats to her life. listen to her tell anderson cooper say how risky free speech can be. >> when you live the way i live you have to ask yourself over and over again, who are these people who want to kill me and what do they want from me? what drives them. over and over again, i come to the conclusion that this is not some kind of random event. these are not some bunch of deranged thugs. this is a movement. it's an ideology. the people who are doing this have a vision and united around that vision. it is embedded in a world religion and civilization. for me to be safe i have to outlive a generation of young minds whose minds are contaminated with this ideology. >> there is

cherif was also increasingly angry. he decided to travel to iraq to fight u.s. troops there and started training. he jogged every day at this local park and learned to use an assault rifle from a man he met in this local mosque. but before cherif could travel to iraq, he and several of his associates were arrested. one of france's leading terrorism experts. cherif was released after 18 months and initially appears he was under surveillance. but that became expensive, so eventually they stopped watching cherif closely. >> the time came when the intelligence services assessed that he posed no more threats and he went underground. >> reporter: in 2010 cherif and his brother were questioned, but subsequently managed to evade surveillance, reportedly traveling to yemen and syria, and then return to execute france's worst terrorist attack in decades. and tonight, brian, we're learning new details. u.s. counterterrorism officials tell us that one of the brothers, the older brother, said, received months of training in yemen by al qaeda's branch there. and both brothers

cherif kouachi answers a call from a french television station. we are just telling you we were sent by al qaeda in yemen. summed in a tweet by the french ambassador to the u.s.ment quote, the two terrorists are dead and the hostage is alive. those two terrorists the same brothers whose attack at the offices of charlie hebdo magazine on wednesday left 12 dead and began a tense rivetting three days of attacks, manhunts and hostage-taking. a witness described his nervous encounter with one of the terrorists. >> translator: we were standing in front of the door to the factory. i shook the hand of the owner michelle and the terrorist. he introduced himself as a policeman. >> reporter: just minutes after the first raid in east paris, we witnessed the second operation live on cnn's air. >> i'm hearing gunfire. multiple shots, automatic fire. i'm going to stop speaking just so you can hear it as well as i am. it is continuing. another explosion. >> reporter: an untold number of hostages. the shooter's companion escaped in the shooting. they are wanted fo

five minutes away cherif's residence. this building apartment 143, the one neighbor who answered the floor in no mood to talk few are. >> another resident who lived on the third floor did not want to appear on camera but he said he saw cherif on a number of occasions with his wife and she was dressed in the full islamic gash with only her eyes showing. on a few occasions he heard loud voices if from the apartment. >> reporter: at the shop down the block they said they were shocked when they saw his picture on tv, describing him as polite kpiblting no signs of radical views. one man remembers him helping elderly women with their groceries. the brothers are the exact kind of jihadis western intelligence fears. one that doesn't look or act like the stereo typical terrorist, perfectly concealing a murderous mind. cnn, paris. >> again, france remains at a heightened security alert level today as we learn from a police source that terror cells may have been activated in the country. earlier, our jim skew toe sciutto asked if th

i was sent, me cherif kouachi by al qaeda in yemen. the result there summed up in a tweet by the french ambassador to the u.s. quote, the two terrorists are dead. the hostage in alive. those two terrorists, the same brothers whose attack at the offices of charlie hebdo magazine on wednesday left 12 dead and began a fence, riveting three days of attacks, manhunts and hostage taking. a witness describes his nervous encounter this morning with one of the terrorists. >> translator: we were standing in front of the door to the factory. i shook the hand of the owner and the terrorist. he introduced himself as a policeman. >> just minutes after the first raid in east paris, we witnessed a second operation live on cnn's air. >> now i'm hearing gun fire. multiple shots, automatic fire i'm going to start speaking just so you can hear it as well as i am. it's continuing. another explosion. >> reporter: an untold number did not survive. the hostage taker dead. his companion escaped in the confusion. both were wanted in the fatal shooting of a poli

they have been named as said kouachi and cherif kouachi. meanwhile in a paris suburb, an unarmed policewoman shot dead and another injured. there is no evidence the two shootings are connected. that shooter also still at large. president francois hollande leading the nation and a moment of silence and of thousands of people have descended on paris to express solidarity with the victims. so the hunt continues. french police going door-to-door in a quiet village in cordy north of france. they are looking for these double men -- for these two men said kouachi and cherif kouachi. french born men of algerian origin. both are in their 30's. both are known to police. at our correspondent has more. >> [indiscernible] >> police descended on the small town en masse. the manhunt surveyed by surveillance helicopters. the terrorists' car was abandoned here. residents are in shock. >> i turned around. >> did police ask all of the people in town to leave? >> yeah, lots of people. they had shotguns. we could not go in. >> on the national highway they recog

cherif kouachi's brother. the investigators were looking to find these persons who had to present themselves at the police station on thursday and was also detained in 23 hours. the identification of the brothers which were found by the media and led to the ending of -- it was decided around 3:00 in the morning the two kouachi brothers the following morning around 2:26 a.m. were found -- seen at a petrol station where they attacked the owner, saying the two individuals had gone and that these two individuals were werewere threatening. there was then high surveillance which confirmed this. i'd like to come back to what happened on thursday morning. a traffic accident took place between two vehicles in montrouge. the police intervened around 7:20 a.m. at 8:00 the police intervened at the scene of the accident having heard gunshots being fired and there were some injuries. a 9-millimeter caliber weapon was found on the road and the first testimonies appeared about a man who was armed with a clashnikov rifle. ther

cherif kouachi and said kouachi. feared to be armed and dangerous. said's id was found in the getaway car. 8 a.m., a gunman in black and a bulletproof vest shoots and kills a policewoman in a paris suburb. a person later arrested. not known if the gunman is at large. not established a link with the attack at charlie hebdo. they are investigating it as a terror attack. >> we may be facing a new wave. it's probably not the end of a terror attack. we are ready to face it. we will fight. and fighting is ending this people getting them to jail. but also keeping our values. >> reporter: the two suspects from wednesday's massacre are believed to rob a gas station here in the town of veere veere kotare. armed, stole gas and food and drove off. nearby a local believes the suspects abandoned their car and escaped on foot. >> translator: there was a man who told me they apparently took their car and went through the forest. he said don't go through the forest go around to avoid running into them. >> reporter: law enforcement swarm in. france's prime minister ra

place say cherif kouachi and said kouachi are armed and dangerous. cherif kouachi has a conviction for helping to send fighters to iraq. meanwhile france is grieving and not just for the dead. the french are in grief because they know their country will struggle to recover from the moves. they fear what will come next. this is place de la republique in the center of paris. the silence was observed across the country, a long point yet pause. each as the country mourned there was another attack on the streets of paris. south of the center two police officers shot. shortly afterwards they heard the news - one of those shot a policewoman died of her wound and yet again the killer got away. the president says this is a time for national unity. >> translation: france has been struck districtly in its heart, the capital in a place where the spirit of liberty and resistance breathes deeply. the spontaneous gathering shows that our great france nose how to come together and defend the ideals of the republic and peace, of those that think they can attack it by

cherif, the younger before he was radicalized. a year later a plan to fight in iraq was ported when he was arrested. his lawyer insisted he was more of a pot smoker from the project than an islamist. at this point he met the leader of a parisian jihadist network. >> [indiscernible] >> in 2010 cherif was charged for his role trying to break a terrorist out of ricin charges which relate are dropped. the older brother site he -- out of prison, charges which were later dropped. the older brother was placed on the no-fly list. the organization they claim to represent when they killed 12 people on wednesday. >> one of the witnesses who opened the door to the terrorist s. the head of al qaeda designated charlie hebdo as a target. >> the columnist had been on an al qaeda hit list. he was one of the attackers prime targets. on the run since wednesday, the brothers were killed by the elite french police on friday, when they stormed the print works where the suspect had been cornered hours before. >> our report on those brothers, who were ki

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said kouachi and cherif kouachi.h brothers who have been known to law enforcement for quite some time who have had run-ins with the law here. the manhunt now seems focused about 45 miles or so northeast of paris and a number of small towns in the north. a gas station was held up. the person who works at the gas station, he believes the two people held him up, stole gas, stole some food, and some liquids were these brothers. police have obviously now been going door to door in a number of communities in this area and also in a forest area. this is a very large forest, thousands of acres. larger than the city of paris itself. there's a lot of ground to cover. as i said, tens of thousands of men and women working right now as we speak in pursuit of these two fugitives. the brothers, of course, are wanted in what is the worst act of terrorism here in decades. they've been known to french and american authorities, even before the killings, charlie hebdo. one believed to have been trained in al qaeda in yemen. we'll have r

the younger cherif spent time in jail for his links to terrorism. in 2005, arrested before traveling to syria. a plan that could have taken him to fight against u.s. and coalition troops in iraq. today, the mosque where they worshipped is torn down. french reports say here he met a man who would teach him to use a kalishnikov and train by jogging in a local park. he was sentenced to three years in prison in 2008 for recruiting jihadis to fight in iraq. cherif's former lawyer claims he was not an extremist. >> translator: he was like a lot of young people. he just had a job that provided money for an uninteresting lifestyle. when he got out of custody, he found a job, got mare yesterdayryied and seemed to be getting on the right path. >> reporter: much less is nope about said who seems to have had a lower profile. >> translator: said kouachi lived in france unemployed and never condemned or accused, but he had in the periphery of some of these investigations. >> reporter: largely in the periphery until leaving his i.d. in the getaway car and tipping

cherif kouachi and said kouachi. the search for them is centered around the north-east of paris, they are in their 30s. they were spotted at a petrol station. a house to house search is underway. thursday morning an unknown assailant opened fire on a female police officer on the southern edge of paris. the french interior ministry called the attack terrorism, but warned against connecting it with wednesday's killings. barnaby phillips has more details. >> reporter: to the north of paris a search is under way for the men that carried out wednesday's attach after a sighting in this garage in the end region of the north-east of the capital. they are hunting two men, cherif kouachi and said kouachi, brother of algerian decent are armed and dangerous. cherif kouachi has a previous conviction for helping to send jihadist fighters to iraq. france is grieving people and not just for the dead. but they know their country will struggle to overcome the wounds and fear what will come next. this is place de la republique in the c

the younger brothers cherif kouachi cherif kouachi had been charged with amedy coulibaly, the terroristsher deli hostage situation. they were charged in a separate 2010 terror blot. with me is brian cotolis and evan and michael. the convection between the kouachi brothers and aqap al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, noun as aqap your thoughts on how this changes the landscape, if you will in terms of counterterrorism measures. >> i don't know if it changes the landscape. but we are in a different era than after the 9/11 attacks. and part of it is the interconnected nature of the groups. and the other part is you is starter or pop up groups that can get connected to aqap and the global al qaeda movement and isis and have a mentorship going on. i think that is the different dynamic here. what i think looking at this more than 14 years after 9/11 or so, we are quite good at going on the offensive against these movements in places like yemen and pakistan. we will never be i think 100% foolproof in preventing attacks like this unfortunately. and the tip of the spear in all of this is enhancin

the french prosecutor said cherif spent time there in 2011. it's not clear if they met face to face with awlaki, he was killed by a drone strike in 2011. law enforcement and intelligence agencies have spent days looking for potential ties to the u.s. they found no co-conspirators with threats here connected to french suspects. >> pelley: bob orr, thanks very much. mike morell is the former number two at the c.i.a. he's our cbs news senior security contributor. michael, is it a credible claim these attacks were directed by al quaida in the arabian peninsula? >> scott, i can't remember a time where al quaida in the arabian peninsula, al quaida in yemen has made a claim of responsibility that has turned out to be false. so i take their claim with some significant credibility, yes. >> pelley: why is it significant that this would be connected to aqap, al quaida? >> two things. one is aqap has some of the most sophisticated bombs in the terrorist world and their ability to send fighters to conduct an attack also means they might be able to send bom

where cherif kouachi lived. when i came to his apartment i found a well-maintained building full of ordinary people leading ordinary lives and neighbors who noticed nothing unusual about him. >> he was unremarkable. he seemed transparent. he would say hello good evening. he was always alone. and he wrote his bicycle. he kept it in the back, just like me. >> the orphan, who had become a rapper and small-town criminal was slowly falling under the influence of radical islam. said and cherif kouachi visited this mosque. >> this mosque welcomes a huge number of people. there were hundreds praying here last friday. >> it was here that cherif kouachi spent several months a few years ago in connection with a plot to send militants to iraq. and we think it was here that he medicine amedi coulibaly who was also serving time. now prisons have played an usual role in the spread of radical islam in france. we think both men were hardened by their experience here. these pictures were secretly taken in a place where anger fess

cherif kouachi aged 32 and said kouachi 34. now, we have information as well that cherif kouachi was known to the police and that previously he had been imprisoned for trying to recruit fighters to go to iraq. the two brothers on the police radar. it was cherif kouachi who was known to the police in the past. so obviously we are talking about the intelligence that had been gathered and police operations and forensics carried in as well and to the north-east. all agencies are working on this together as the president said that all forces every measure would be used and no lead left unvetted. >> thank you voch at the moment. jacky rowland on standby to bring us all the latest from paris. >>> now, we want to take you to thailand where the former prime minister yingluck shinawatra is set to face an impeachment hearing before the country's military appointed government. there's concern the impeachment would reignite tensions. scott heidler reports from bangkok. >> yingluck shinawatra has been out of thailand's political scene since

this is cherif from a news report ten years ago. the brothers have been seen in a car with registration plates masked. police fear they may now be heading back into paris, possibly determined to die in another bloody attack. >> translator: these individuals were known to the intelligence services, and because they were known, they would have been followed. we are facing an unprecedented terrorist threat. both within france and overseas. the police and justice system have dismantled a number of groups which were planning terrorist attacks. that is proof that we are taking action. >> reporter: the french president has declared three days of national mourning. but no one can relax. the gunmen are still at large and the authorities are in a race to prevent more loss of life. emily buchanan bbc news. >>> in a moment we're going to be taking you live to paris and lyse doucet. but first, i wanted to keep you up to date with a few news lines. frank gardner has been speaking to french officials, and he said they have told him that they have

he's linked with cherif kouachi in in the attack of charlie hebdo. cherif kouachi's spouse has called more than 500 times hayat boumeddiene, this shows strong and permanent links between the two couples. >> more than a deck code here the joggers would have included cherif kouachi and other like-minded young men. the police thought they dismantled the group in 2005. the fact that these men have been known to have actively supported violent groups for years is uncomfortable to say the least for french security services. as bodies are removed from the jewish supermarket where one of friday's two sieges came to a bloody end. the police here are have to answer questions, are there any remain that pose a threat, how did they let them slip through their fingers, and are there any other groups planning similar attacks. >> what is the latest in the hunt for hayat boumeddie in, e. >> of course we've been saying all day france's nightmare is not over yet. she is still at large and suggested at some level she was involved. she left france in january. and if that

i was sent, me, cherif cowatchy.stage is alive. those two terrorists, the same brothers whose attack at the offices of "charlie hebdo" magazine on wednesday left 12 dead. and began a tense riveting three days of attacks, manhunts and hostage taking. a witness describes his nervous encounter this morning with one of the terrorists. >> translator: we were standing in front of the door to the factory. i shook the hand of the owner michelle and the terrorist. he introduced himself as a police man. >> minutes after the first raid in east paris we wchitnessed th second live. >> now i'm hearing gun fire. multiple shots, automatic fire. i'm going to stop speaking so you can hear it as well as i am. it's continuing. another explosion. >> untold number did not survive. the hostage taker amedi couey bally dead, his companion hayat boumediene escaped. both were wanted in the shooting of a police officer in paris on thursday. that attack a few hundred feet from a jewish school. on friday with shoppers preparing for the jewish sab

the gunmen said and cherif kouachi.nch police. the moment before they executed a french policeman. it's a chilling change from six years ago when one of the attackers, cherif kouachi, covers his face when leaving court, proclaims his innocence. he was on trial for recruiting jihadists to iraq. >> translator: the whole thing was set up. we were young kids from the suburbs. we are passionate. there is nothing more. we did nothing wrong. >> reporter: he was found guilty and sentenced to prison. today, a contact of kouachi's was charged with terrorism in court in bulgaria captured there on his way to syria. bulgarian officials say that he was in contact with cherif several times and left with his son. authorities are still searching for this man spotted with hayat boumeddiene. he's believed to be part of the pakistani jihadi cell and is still at large. police from new york, washington and los angeles showed support. >> two police officers lost their lives there that day. what comes to mind here as you come to the memorial?

certainly newswise reporting here that said and cherif kouachi have been killed here. there are a huge amount of vehicles pouring into this area. ambulances, police with sirens flashing. [sirens] -- police vehicle ambulance, and all sorts of official resources being poured into the site of the hostage situation just up the road from here. an we must say we thought it had come to a head but there is still a considerable degree of urgency amongst the, the emergency services of all types and descriptions here as they pour into dammartin joined those who are already there. now it appears, judging by the explosions and gunfire heard in the last half hour that ian wood so graphically described to you, that a assault was mounted by the counter terrorist police on the printers offices where the two kouachi brothers were holed up and had been since early this morning where they had taken a hostage as well. we don't know the outcome. there has been no official confirmation of that, but certain we're hearing from newswise here that they are reporting that said and cherif kouachi,

. >> said and cherif kouachi are believed to be holding out in one building on this industrial estate. it's a print works. these live pictures from dammartin. reports suggest there's been contact with police and the suspects have said they are ready for martyrdom. >> president francois hollande has been speaking in the last couple of hours. he revealed that france has been a target of terrorist plots for several months. >> translator: we knew that anything could happen at any time. as we stand here at the present time we should do everything to guarantee the protection of our citizens. >>> a very warm welcome to our special coverage of dramatic events in dammartin. a small town north of paris, where hundreds of french police and special forces have converged on an industrial estate, where the two suspects in wednesday's attack on the satirical magazine "charlie hebdo" appear to be preparing to make their last stand. >> cherif kouachi and said kouachi are believed to be holding one hostage inside the offices of a printing business. we're getting many reports from the scene that suggest

they think that cherif and said were legally entering yemen the whole time. a messy picture. of time. >> kouachi brothers were there. so was the underwear womanbomber. it's possible that a whole group of people around that same time were being trained in various places in yemen? >> reporter: that's certainly the extrapolation i'm sure that western investigators are making now. remember there's a good two plus years difference between when the underwear bomber was in yemen and meeting said kouachi and then when it's thought cherif joined his brothers. he was going in and out for a period of two years. the questions french court will ask themselves is given the high profile nature of roommates and brothers were there together and cherif was facing jail time for previous plots in the past how come these guys suddenly fell off the radar. there's suggestions from a french source that cherif may have gone to syria at some point late last year. a lot of what they would call noise here and suggestions why they should have been more heavily followed but they weren't with those tragic

right now, a major operation is under way to detain cherif kouachi and said kouachi. two people stole a car and appeared to have taken one hostage. there is a school on lockdown. again, it's just 11:00 a.m. in france. france's interior minister is almost certain the men are the kouachi brothers, the men they are searching for. this is happening in

cherif kouachi's attorney. "i saw him change when he was in custody but i didn't see an ounce of religious extremism. i saw he was becoming more mature and less open minded." and of course people are plotting. >> they're engaged in tactics to defeat surveillance physical and technical. it makes it much more difficult for law enforcement to do its job. >> reporter: all of that is why preventing an attack like this one is easier this theory than practice. yes, maybe police will find an illegal dwun dealer who could have tipped off authorities or family or friends who knew something was coming or maybe they will find two men collectively acting like a lone wolf attacker. and we already know those people are very very hard to catch. >> all right, tom foreman, thanks so much. let's bring in republican congressman from new york peter king thanks so much for joining us. we now though these brothers were on the no fly list in the united states. what more the can you tell us what about the u.s. knew about them? was ther

cherif had ties to radical groups.e was jailed for three years for helping send young french muslims to fight in iraq. by early afternoon, anti-terror groups were converging on one village. once in the village, they moved incautiously -- in cautiously. officers know the attackers have already killed two policeman. they fear what they will do if they are cornered. officers blocked all the roads to the village. this is as close as we can get. the road down to the village now sealed off. the armed police we have seen in this area all day have converged on there, and that is where they have focused their search. >> police going door checking every house. for a second night now, france remains honest highest alert. the killer still remain on the loose, but the net may be closing. >> it's night, now, they're in france. what is happening? is this manhunt still under way? >> a little bit earlier this evening, all of those police teams who had been in their coming their way through the village then moving their way into the for

these two guys said and cherif kouachi, were they on the u.s. radar screen? one of them spent time in jail for supposedly recruiting individuals to go fight in iraq and/or syria. did you know about these two guys? >> i think if you look at the fact that they were investigated by french authorities, prosecuted by french authorities and that they -- their existence lived within the public record of terrorism which is something that is accessed globally by all intelligence agencies you'd have to say they were on the radar. one of the great challenges that the french face that we face here in america, the boston marathon bombing underscored this that we are all nations of laws. not all the same laws but there's a lot of people on the radar who, either the system has dealt with or who surfaced in investigations that have not necessarily committed a crime that you can charge them with at that moment. in this case one of these people was charged, but was also out. so this is a real challenge. there are only so many people that you can surveil or watch or follow at a

like cherif he was known to police.2005, the newspaper reported the brothers were both staying in paris with a french man who converted to islam. in 2010, said's name came up during the investigation into the prison break plot but accordi according to le monde there wasn't enough evidence to keep investigating him. >> joining me live now is nic robertson. ha was a great report and i saw a couple frames of video of rap music and a rap video of one of the suspects. i was wondering how much more you know about their background, the kind of people these brothers are? >> they clearly didn't feel they were able to trust a lot of people and that's perhaps one of the reasons this plot was able to get as far as it did into the operational and action phase. again, this is not something uncommon with radicals islamics, but brothers to band together to fork form a circle of trust, one thing emerging here. also perhaps they don't have a broader support network to help them after this attack, at least that's the image that's emerging

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so now we understand that this brother, cherif kouachi may have been radicalized by a former radical spiritual leader who also turned out to be a nurse intern at a hospital in paris. it's believed that this spiritual leader is the one who may have helped lead to the training which cherif kouachi may have received overseas the older of the two brothers and we hope to learn more information as to how these two became acquainted. and how cherif kouachi became that vulnerable person in order to invite this radicalized spiritual mentor into his life. we're just learning this information and trying to get a bit more but it paints a maybe perhaps a more clear picture of this kouachi brother and how he may have been brought in to the world of the al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and we have heard now that the third terrorist in this attack in paris, amedy coulibaly showed his pledge in allegiance toward isis but it's al qaeda in the arabian peninsula that has claimed responsibility of this terror attack in paris. this on a day when more than a million people have descended on the city of pa

the brothers saird and cherif kouachi are still at large.nd personnel have been mobilized to assist in the search. that is a stunning number. nine people have been detained and 90 witnesses have been questioned. but are authorities any closer to actually finding the two who committed this horrific act of terror? jim sciutto is front. and jim, this is the crucial question that so many around the world want an answer to. how could these suspects managed to evade authorities for this long? >> it is a good question. and not just u.s. but french authorities, on terror lists in both countries for a number of years. that is a major question at this point. authorities are going back over leads, both here and in the u.s. to see if they missed any warning signals. this is as they have the massive manhunt under way with particular attention focused on a forest about 45 miles northeast of paris. but still tonight, no sign of the gunman. as the manhunt continues for the attackers in the countryside outside of paris, a clearer picture is emerging of the g

said and cherif kouachi are the chief suspects in yesterday's massacre. today more details began to emerge about their past. french media described the two as orphans of algerian dissent who were raised in foster care. the younger brother cherif grew up performing and listening to rap music and worked as a pizza delivery boy, but according to some reports, he became angry at the invasion of iraq and joined a small group of extremists. he was arrested almost a decade ago, as he set off to join jihadis fighting american forces in iraq. according to testimony at his trial in 2008, he also dreamed of striking jewish targets in europe. the two brothers were well-known to french authorities, raising the question of how their plans to attack "charlie hebdo" went unnoticed by police. as darkness fell tonight, the hunt continues. >> police are going through towns and villages across this entire area. they're on foot. they're going door to door looking for any possible hiding places. >> at the house of the mayor of this village, officers asked if there were any cav

french prosecutors have made a link between the couple and cherif kouachi. all four were known to security services. >> it appears from the investigation, especially following the phone tappings that cherif kouachi's spouse had called 500 times. this shows strong and permanent links between the two couples. >> france is a country in mourning. 17 innocent people killed in three days of bloodshed. the country is on the highest possible security alert. a day after two sieges were brought to a bloody end thousands of police are on the streets. the french prime minister has admitted that the attacks have shown that there were clear flaws in intelligence. on saturday the president held an emergency meeting of ministers. >> in the current environment we're facing risks. it is important that the plan is for the rest of the country and should be strengthened in the next few weeks. >> franÇois hollande, france's president, says that this is a country who still request how this could happen. >> there is a whole process going on at the moment of people who work through

and the other two cherif, are at large. cherif already known to the french authorities. geraldine schwarz, what can you tell us? >> yes, cherif was to send them to iraq. he himself tried to go to iraq. i think one question, which is really important right now in france is this an islamic terrorist attack? these three gunmen, when they appeared in the -- at the beginning of the attack on wednesday, claimed that they were actually from al qaeda. and when they escaped from the building, journalists heard them saying allahu akbar, which means god is great. we avenged muhammad's -- charlie hebdo is dead. >> right. what do you make of the fact that they had such military expertise? apparently they were very adept at using their weapons. the attack appears to be very well planned. does that indicate for you that they must have had some kind of military experience? >> well, i think it is a bit too soon to make any statements on that. there is a clear difference with other accidents which happened in the last weeks like a man who drove his car in a crowd in dijon. who clearly was

cherif kouachi was later released for lack of evidence. the third suspect, 18-year-old mourad hamyd, turned himself into police after seeing his name circulated on social media. he is believed to have an alibi for being in school at the time of the attacks. it is not yet known what group the gunman are affiliated to but witnesses at the scene said they had claimed to be members of al qaeda in yemen. >> once again, the manhunt is on for those two suspects. meanwhile, paris was hit again by violence this morning. at 8:00 a.m., a shooter shot a police officer, a policewoman in a southern suburb of paris. however, there is no indication no official word on whether or not there is any link to yesterday's shooting. we're covering events in the area. what more do you have for us at this hour? >> we have seen what looks like the end of police operations here. there are a few officers left. they had originally left the scene after the shooting this morning and then returned in great force with dogs and armed police to search what is believed to be

he of course is talking about said and cherif kouachi.st one of those brothers is known to have traveled to yemen, believed to have met with aqap. and now that organization claiming credit for the attacks. i want to bring in our nick paton walsh who has seen this video. and nick not surprising perhaps, that aqap has claimed responsibility given that we know that these brothers traveled to yemen, given that we know that they were screaming allegiance to the group as they were carrying out the attack. >> reporter: certainly. but, of course obviously with these claims now investigators have to match up the suggestion of connectivity between this video and the brothers on the street to what investigative leads they have. let's deal with what's actually said in this video. it's from the official media wing so to speak, of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, and it's quite specific in breaking down what it considers to be the orders that led to what it refers to as the blessed battle of paris. part of a lot of terminology which i'm sure those in

cherif hoped to be an engineer.training but not much success or sense of place or purpose. this peaceful park in the neighborhood changed that. it's here that the process of radicalization seems to have begun. about a decade ago, a group of young, muslim men would meet for jogging and sports. they were meeting with a self-taught radical cleric an linked to a nearby mosque. plans being laid to recruit young men to fight against american troops in iraq. this was the mentor a janitor in his 20s whose real interest was jihad. some jogging and weapons training didn't amount to much. but the newspaper called it the first school for jihad. this group became known by security services as the buttes network. this was the leader. farid. he met cherif in 2004 at the local mosque. one year later kouachi was part of the network. then during his time in prison he met amedy coulibaly serving time for armed robbery. in prison they met another key figure in their radicalization. he's a french algerian jihadist jailed in 200 1 for a

among them the brothers said and cherif kouachi.that slaughtered 12 people wednesday at the paris offices of the satirical magazine charlie hebdo. their years long connection to terror organizations becoming a tad clearer by the hour. we know this. the older brother, said traveled to yemen in mid 2011 training with al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and possibly crossing paths with the group's leader who was very operational who was killed later that year in a drone strike. also we have this. both brothers may haven in been in syria as recent as this summer. pamela brown has more information for us. >> we know that in preparing a bulletin they are sending out to law enforcement agencies across the country local, state and federal agencies in the wake of what we saw in paris and this warning, as we've seen in previous terrorist attacks in other countries, basically lays out what happened and there were a few key points to mention. this bulletin talks about how sophisticated the attacks were and how it appeared that the suspects had be

cherif and said kouachi. police say cherif may have ties to al qaeda.e was convicted of helping to fund militant fighters in iraq and spent 18 months in prison. several others are in custody, including an 18-year-old who was surrendered after he was named as a possible suspect. now, this all happened as a staff meeting was underway and that's when the masked gunmen came in and the carnage began. the men arrived with assault rifles in hand, they called out specific names of staff members. first targeting the editor. one witness says that he thought the gunmen were part of an anti-terrorism squad because they were so calculating in this attack. another witness says in part, quote, they knew exactly what they had to do and exactly where to shoot. now, this video shows two armed men casually exiting the building just before they shoot a wounded police officer at point blank range in the head. the officer laying on the ground saying, no, no. officials say the suspects then carjacked a vehicle after their initial get away car had crashed. eight journalists an

cherif and said kouachi, two men of algerian ancestry, both in their 30s. in the last half-hour, french media are reporting that the two men have been spotted north of france spotted in a car, a gray car wearing masks. the license plate's masked as well carrying guns as well as a rocket launcher. and they are believed to be the two main suspects in this case. all the french police are saying so far is that the two men have been located. and now as the rains come pouring down here in paris, even the skies are crying at this moment of this country's history, and people now approaching -- here you can see the center of the square. people have been putting flowers, putting pieces of paper, so many of them saying what is now one of the slogans of this past 24 hours. "i am charlie." a reference, of course to charlie hebdo. four among the most loved satirical cartoonists that france has ever known. today french cartoonists are continuing to write, saying they're going to continue to fight back with their pens. let's look at all the latest developments with this re