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One of the men behind last week's deadly rampage in Paris claimed to have lived with the Nigerian behind the failed al-Qaida "underwear bomb" plot five years ago. Journalist and researcher Mohammed al-Kibsi said he first met Said Kouachi in 2010 while the French citizen was studying Arabic in the capital Sanaa, in the days after the failed Christmas 2009 attack on a Detroit-bound airliner.
Last week, U.S. officials said they believe Kouachi spent several months in Yemen in 2011 receiving weapons training and working with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. A senior Yemeni national security official said that Said Kouachi entered Yemen multiple times with a legal visa and was not being watched.
Abdulmutallab, the son of a wealthy banker, told U.S. investigators that he had trained in Yemen and targeted the U.S.-bound flight at the urging of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical, American-born Muslim cleric killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
Al-Awlaki's commentary was featured in al-Qaida in Yemen's English-language media, including the Inspire magazine, which urges supporters in the West to undertake so-called "lone wolf" attacks.
The cleric was in hiding in southern Yemen at the time he interviewed Kouachi in Sanaa, and did not know if the two had met.
Before French commandos killed him in a shootout, Kouachi's brother Cherif told French media that he was sent by al-Qaida in Yemen, saying: "I went there, and it was Anwar al-Awlaki who financed me."
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Last week, U.S. officials said they believe Kouachi spent several months in Yemen in 2011 receiving weapons training and working with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. A senior Yemeni national security official said that Said Kouachi entered Yemen multiple times with a legal visa and was not being watched.
Abdulmutallab, the son of a wealthy banker, told U.S. investigators that he had trained in Yemen and targeted the U.S.-bound flight at the urging of Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical, American-born Muslim cleric killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen in 2011.
Al-Awlaki's commentary was featured in al-Qaida in Yemen's English-language media, including the Inspire magazine, which urges supporters in the West to undertake so-called "lone wolf" attacks.
The cleric was in hiding in southern Yemen at the time he interviewed Kouachi in Sanaa, and did not know if the two had met.
Before French commandos killed him in a shootout, Kouachi's brother Cherif told French media that he was sent by al-Qaida in Yemen, saying: "I went there, and it was Anwar al-Awlaki who financed me."
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