January 13, 2015 | Quoted by Marc Kilstein - PRI

How the Kouachi Brothers Fell Through the Cracks


Ultimately, the full extent to which Said and Cherif Kouachi were known to French and American officials is not yet entirely clear. But Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a terrorism analyst and senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, predicts that answers are coming.

“There'll be some airing of … [the] French security apparatus' dirty laundry very soon,” he says, “and then we'll get a better sense of how this specifically happened.”

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