France Fears More Terrorists Still at Large After Charlie Hebdo Attack

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With that in mind, Thomas Joscelyn, a terrorism analyst with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, said Monday that “intelligence officials are trying right now to figure out if the Paris attack was actually planned and directed by AQAP officials.”

Mr. Joscelyn, who writes about jihadi terrorism at the foundation’s Long War Journal, said Said Kouachi might have been specifically dispatched back to France by AQAP in 2011 with a generally conceived plot with one or more targets.

“Or there could have been more recent contacts with AQAP that were missed by intelligence agencies,” he said. “Or, it could be more broad in that the attack plot was something he learned about will visiting with AQAP years ago and he and his brother just ran with it.”

“The training that AQAP probably provided seems to have really played a role in the attack,” Mr. Joscelyn said. “These guys made some mistakes, but they were very methodical in how they pulled off the attack.”
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