Report: Said Kouachi Trained With al-Qaida in Yemen

Slate will post running news updates about the situation in France below. For other Slate coverage of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, Update, 5:25 p.m.: A witness to Wednesday’s Paris attack said the gunmen at Charlie Hebdo’s offices claimed to be affiliated with al-Qaida in Yemen. A police source told the Associated Press today that the suspects in the attack, the Kouachi brothers, were connected to Yemeni terrorists, and further corroboration arrives via a game of intelligence-community telephone: U.S. officials say they’ve been told by French intelligence that a Paris attack suspect trained with al Qaeda in Yemen. There is of yet no evidence that the shooting death of a policewoman just outside Paris on Thursday was connected to the Hebdo attack: No link found so far between #CharlieHebdo attack & today's shooting that killed a police officer, French interior minister says — CNN Breaking News January 8, 2015 Mashable has posted footage taken by a French public television station of Cherif Kouachi in 2005, the year he was arrested and charged with planning to travel to Iraq to commit terrorist acts. Original post, Jan. 8, 6:14 a.m.: A policewoman was shot and killed near Paris Thursday and another individual was injured, though it’s not yet clear if the incident is related to Wednesday’s Charlie Hebdo massacre.