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Charlie Hebdo jihad mass murderer and underwear jihad bomber were friends, went to mosque together

Jan 12, 2015 11:23 am By Robert Spencer

KouachiandAbdulmutallabWhat, you expected that Said Kouachi would have been friends with Richard Dawkins? Anyway, what is this about their going to a mosque? Aren’t they both misunderstanders of Islam, that glorious religion of peace and tolerance? How is it, then, that they frequented a mosque? All our Western authorities, with the possible exception of Manuel Valls, would insist that these men know nothing of Islam and had nothing to do with it. So how strange it is that they went to a mosque! “Charlie Hebdo massacre gunman reportedly knew underwear bomber,” FoxNews.com, January 12, 2015 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

One of the brothers who carried out a massacre at the offices of the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo lived across the hall from the so-called “underwear bomber” while the two attended an Arabic-language school in Yemen in 2009, according to a published report.

The Wall Street Journal, citing neighbors of both men as well as Yemeni intelligence officials, reported that Said Kouachi and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab studied together and often visited the mosque in the Old City of Yemen’s capital, San’a.

This past Wednesday, Said Kouachi and his younger brother, Cherif, entered the Paris offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and killed twelve people, including eight of the magazine’s staffers. Two days later, the brothers were killed by police who had surrounded them in a printing shop located in a small village about 25 miles northeast of Paris.

On Friday, U.S. government sources confirmed to Fox News that Said Kouachi had travelled to Yemen in 2011 and trained with or fought along side Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), and one of his goals was to meet with the Al Qaeda branch’s leadership, though it is not clear that he ever managed to do so. A U.S. intelligence assessment described to The Associated Press shows that Kouachi was trained in preparation to return home and carry out an attack.

The Journal reports that Kouachi arrived in Yemen in early 2009 on a student visa issued by the language school and was often seen with Abdulmutallab. However, Said began disappearing for long periods of time, sometimes as long as a week, for reasons neighbors said he described as “personal issues.” U.S. officials say Kouachi’s absences coincide with the period that Abdulmutallab had begun training with AQAP.

Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian national, attempted to blow up a jet plane over Detroit on Christmas Day, 2009. He failed to detonate the explosives on his body and was later arrested. He was convicted on terrorism charges in 2012….

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 11:35 am

    They studied a foreign language together and often visited the same mosque.

    Since this obviously can’t have anything to do with attending the same mosque, then the only other conclusion is studying a foreign language causes terrorism therefore, we must shut down all places of learning from kindergarten to universities and even libraries in order to prevent studying.

    • Angemon says

      Jan 12, 2015 at 1:20 pm

      Good one JB 😀

  2. ApolloSpeaks says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    WHY DID OBAMA MISS YESTERDAY’S HISTORIC RALLY?

    Because he wanted the Moslem world to know that

    HE IS NOT CHARLIE!

    Click http://www.apollospeaks.com for my article on this disturbing subject

  3. gravenimage says

    Jan 12, 2015 at 6:19 pm

    Charlie Hebdo jihad mass murderer and underwear jihad bomber were friends, went to mosque together

    What, you expected that Said Kouachi would have been friends with Richard Dawkins?
    …………………………………

    Richard Reid, maybe…

  4. Dr Nath says

    Jan 13, 2015 at 3:11 am

    Can anything good come out of a religion that promotes violence in all ramifications? The world should know many such acquaintances and friendship between the Jihadists are growing every day populating the world with terror and criminally minded followers. . They never learnt or want to know the truth. They shut their minds to reality and become complete waste to humanity as such young men chose not to aspire to make progress and contribution to human civilization except carrying guns and fighting against constituted authorities in the defense of a god and his messenger. They were brain washed into carrying arms to defend a god and his messengers who handed down to humanity a toxic guide called their holy book which holiness is very doubtful. Only the stupid carry guns to defend a god who ought to be most powerful to defend himself and blood and flesh called humanity. The world should rise now to demand the censorship of the aspects of Koran and any other religious holy books that promote violence which is totally incompatible with present days civilizations as seen in the transformation of such injections from Old Testament to the New Testament of Christian Bible resulting to such instructions to Christians as if you are slapped on one side of your face turn on the other side to be slapped too; if the unbelievers refuse your call for conversion quietly leave and dusk off the sand on your shoe as a testament against them . It did not persuade to cut off the throat. or commit all kinds of atrocities we are presented with that kids go to Mosque to get brained washed with and eventually turn out to be the kind of drama at France,, Canada, Nigerian Israel Synagogue and even the worst the 9/11 is USA and many other cases of inconceivable murdering of the innocent out of poor judgment of defending a religion in ignorance and deception. The good world cannot stand still and allow the people to be exterminated unjustly. Islam must inevitably reform its teachings if the world will demand or be abrogated. To do so is now otherwise more and more cruel open day extermination awaits humanity as kid rapidly grow in the knowledge of what teaching are available in Koran. Unfortunately Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian national came from a very notable and wealthy family but got exposed to unprofitable course in life and ended up a disappointed person to his country the majority of who are struggling with inadequacies he would have been able to be of assistance with his privileges in lightening the burden of man

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 13, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    It figures the those two characters would be friends , They do make a good match for they really deserve each other.Furthermore the Bible in Amos 3:3 teaches “Can two walk together expect they be agreed.” [K.J.V] This verse may not only apply to good people but also villains such as those two Muslim fiend friends in the above picture of this article.

  6. wallace says

    Jan 13, 2015 at 2:53 pm

    Off topic, just a thought, the jihadis that have been struggling to take Kobani since Sept. They must be wondering what Allah is playing at, says in Q.3.125, “your lord should help with 5,000 angels sent down. He helped ages ago deploying angels to assist the Muslims in battle. Iam sure the sight of all those angels flapping through the streets of Kobani would soon have the Peshmerga making a hasty retreat. Allah must be busy with other shit.

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