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00:00On January 7th, 2015, at about 11.30 a.m. in Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine, Charlie Hebdo, were targeted in a shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers, Saeed Kouwashi and Sharif Kouwashi, armed with rifles and other weapons.
00:22The duo murdered 12 people and injured 11 others. They identified themselves as members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which claimed responsibility for the attack.
00:34They fled after the shooting, triggering a manhunt, and were killed by the GIGN on January 9th.
00:41The Kouwashi brothers' attack was followed by several related Islamist terrorist attacks across the Ile de France between January 7th and 9th, 2015, including the hyper-catcher kosher supermarket siege, in which a French-born Malayan Muslim took hostages and murdered four people, all Jews, before being killed by French commandos.
01:06After a tense stand-off that lasted five hours, police commandos suddenly swung into action, first with percussion grenades, then storming both doors of the supermarket, a burst of heavy gunfire followed.
01:25With at least one body visible on the floor, the SWAT team officers facing return fire went in.
01:44After a few seconds, for a few seconds, it was made. Then, this was the moment the hostage-taker was shot.
01:56He was shot.
01:56And terrified hostages sprinted out and ran for cover, steered towards safety by the police, who say French media had tapped into the store's surveillance camera system and had communicated with one of the hostages hidden in a fridge.
02:15The siege began at lunchtime, witnesses say, when a man ran into the kosher supermarket, shouting, you know who I am.
02:24Legions of police flooded into the area, which has a large immigrant population, and started evacuating residents.
02:32Then SWAT teams took up positions around the store.
02:36Ahmadi Koulibaly was born south of Paris in 1982.
02:39He had convictions for armed robbery, and was radicalized sometime in the last decade.
02:46Midway through today's hostage siege, a man claiming to be Koulibaly called a Paris TV station and underlined his links with the Kouashi brothers.
02:56From the start, he told the reporter, we planned these actions together.
02:59He also said he'd already killed four hostages, and that he'd attacked the market because it was Jewish.
03:06I'm in France. If they hadn't been attacked elsewhere, I wouldn't have been attacked.
03:09I wouldn't have been attacked. But they attacked.
03:11I think that there was Bachar Alassad in Syrie.
03:13But it was the timing for the guys.
03:15Everybody was killing people.
03:17They weren't intervened for years.
03:19There was a guy who did that.
03:21Bombardiers, coalition of 50.000 countries, all that.
03:24Why are you talking about zero?
03:25Zero.
03:26They're not intervening.
03:27I wouldn't say to you.
03:29You are not a person who would be a problem with you.
03:32I wouldn't say to you.
03:34But that's almost done.
03:35We have to go over here.
03:36We're going to get back to the more and more people.
03:40So they stopped.
03:42They stopped.
03:43They stopped.
03:44They stopped.
03:45They stopped to attack the men's eyes.
03:46They stopped to take their friends' eyes.
03:47They stopped to pay their bills.
03:48They stopped paying taxes, all that stuff.
03:50They're not going to get back.
03:52They're not going to get back.
03:53I'm going to get back.
03:54Yes, you can pay your taxes, you can pay your taxes
03:57Yes, but when I pay my taxes, what I want is for the road
04:02No, no, you can pay your taxes
04:04You can pay your taxes, you can pay your taxes
04:0630% of the defense, 30% of the agriculture, etc.
04:11You pay our taxes, but it's not a bad person
04:13D'accord, but I tell you, I tell you all the individuals
04:16They arrive at Sunika
04:18They arrive at Sunika
04:20They arrive at Sunika
04:21Plus, the President…
04:25Faites the same thing, and say
04:26Jews are classed, so you don't do anything
04:28No. No.
04:29At our time, our country, we know very well
04:31Our country, we say
04:33Allah Subh'ala Israël
04:35God in the Quran
04:36If you want to thank Egypt
04:37We want to thank Egypt
04:38Thank you
04:39That's why, the бабs
04:40We want to thank our children
04:41We want to thank our women
04:43And we want to thank the watched
04:46We call it to black
04:47We call it
04:48Because you know about your family
04:49We call it
04:50Your army, if you don't want to put them there, don't come to war.
04:54Don't come.
04:55Don't think about it because it's a Muslim.
04:57Never.
04:58They'll never come to war.
04:59Not everywhere they've been, they'll never come.
05:01Allah has been with you.
05:02As he said,
05:03what do you know?
05:04Muhammad Bin Laden.
05:05Muhammad Bin Laden said,
05:07Muhammad Bin Laden said,
05:08she'll never go to war,
05:09and we're not going to war in Palestine.
05:11A major manhunt led to the discovery of the subjects who exchanged fire with police.
05:22The brothers took hostages at a signage company in Tamatanguela on January 9th
05:29and were shot dead when they emerged from the building firing.
05:33On January 11th, about 2 million people, including more than 40 world leaders,
05:39met in Paris for a rally of national unity,
05:42and 3.7 million people joined demonstrations across France.
05:47The phrase,
05:48Je suis Charlie,
05:50became a common slogan of support at rallies and on social media.
05:54The staff of Charlie Hebdo continued with the publication,
05:58and the following issue print ran 7.95 million copies in six languages,
06:04compared to its typical print run of 60,000 in French only.
06:09I believe that I'm in the same position as them.
06:12I'm a professional cartoonist, and they are professional cartoonists.
06:15I do believe that everyone has the freedom to say what he wants to say.
06:19I don't agree with them and what they are saying,
06:23but I totally understand what they are doing.
06:27They are crossing the red lines.
06:29This is their cause and they have the freedom to do whatever they want.
06:33You understood the position of the cartoonists that Charlie Hebdo,
06:38but did much of their work offend you?
06:41Of course I was offended,
06:42but this doesn't mean that I have to kill anyone or harm anyone.
06:46It's a cartoon, for God's sake.
06:48They drew something.
06:50It's an ink on a paper, so you have to tell them it's wrong,
06:54just throw something back, boycott the newspaper.
06:58It's anything like this.
07:00You have many options to do rather than killing or doing something like this.
07:05This is ugly.
07:07This doesn't belong to our age.
07:09This is medieval age.
07:11This is extremism.
07:12This is the mentality of extremism, simply.
07:15Does what happened in Paris worry you?
07:20Does it make you think, boy, should I carry on?
07:24It made me stronger.
07:25It made me angrier, you know.
07:28And all my pages on the social media, I wrote you to Charlie, directly.
07:33I said everything I couldn't say before,
07:38that I support freedom of speech.
07:40They didn't do something wrong.
07:42If some breach tells you that you have to kill them, they are wrong.
07:46I chose this image because it's shocking,
07:48and I know it will be something like the attacks of 9-11.
07:52So I tried to say, to demonize them.
07:56They are devils.
07:57These people were masked, but I pictured them as black devils.
08:02Evil.
08:03Charlie Hebdo is a publication that has always courted controversy
08:13with satirical attacks on political and religious leaders.
08:17It published cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 2012,
08:22forcing France to temporarily close embassies and schools
08:26in more than 20 countries amid fear of reprisals.
08:30It's offices were firebombed in November 2011,
08:34after publishing a previous caricature of Muhammad on its cover.
08:38On December 16th, 2020, 14 people who were accomplices
08:43to both the Charlie Hebdo and Jewish supermarket attackers were convicted.
08:48However, three of these accomplices were still not yet captured
08:53and were tried in absentia.
08:56Charlie Hebdo, French for Charlie Weekly, is a French satirical weekly newspaper
09:02that features cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes.
09:06The publication, irreverent and stridely nonconformist in tone,
09:11is strongly secularist, anti-religious, and left-wing.
09:15Just like me.
09:16Publishing articles that mock Catholicism, Judaism, Islam,
09:21and various other groups as local and world news unfolds.
09:26The magazine was published from 1969 to 1981,
09:31and has been, again from 1992 on.
09:35Charlie Hebdo has a history of attracting controversy.
09:39In 2006, Islamic organizations, under French hate speech laws,
09:45unsuccessfully sued over the newspaper's republication
09:48of the Jalans Posten cartoons of Muhammad.
09:52The cover of a 2011 issue, retitled,
09:56Shariah Hebdo, French for, Shariah Weekly,
10:00featured a cartoon of Muhammad,
10:02whose depiction is forbidden in most interpretations of Islam,
10:06with some Persian exceptions.
10:08The newspaper's office was firebombed, and its website hacked.
10:12In 2012, the newspaper published a series of satirical cartoons of Muhammad,
10:18including nude caricatures.
10:20This came days after a series of violent attacks
10:24on U.S. embassies in the Middle East,
10:26purportedly in response to the anti-Islamic film,
10:30Innocence of Muslims.
10:34Cartoonist, Stéphane Charb-Chabanier,
10:37had been the director of publication of Charlie Hebdo since 2009.
10:41In 2013, Al-Qaeda added him to its most-wanted list,
10:46along with three Jalans Posten staff members,
10:50Kurt Vestergaard, Karsten Juste, and Fleming Rose.
10:54Being a sports shooter, Charb applied for a permit to be able to carry a firearm for self-defense.
11:00The application went unanswered.
11:03Numerous violent plots related to the Jalans Posten cartoons were discovered,
11:09primarily targeting cartoonist Vestergaard, editor Rose,
11:13and the property or employees of Jalans Posten and other newspapers that printed the cartoons.
11:19Vestergaard was the subject of several attacks and planned attacks,
11:25and lived under police protection for the rest of his life.
11:28On January 1, 2010, police used guns to stop a would-be assassin in his home.
11:35He was sentenced to nine years in prison.
11:38In 2010, three men, based in Norway, were arrested on suspicion of planning a terror attack against Jalans Posten or Kurt Vestergaard.
11:49Two of them were convicted.
11:51In the United States, David Headley and Tahar Hussein Renat were convicted in 2013 of planning terrorism against Jalans Posten.
12:03In France, blasphemy law ceased to exist with progressive emancipation of the Republic from the Catholic Church between 1789 and 1830.
12:16In France, the principle of secularism, laïcité, the separation of church and state,
12:22was enshrined in the 1905 law of the separation of the churches and the state,
12:28and in 1945 became part of the Constitution.
12:32Under its terms, the government and all public administrations and services must be religion blind,
12:40and the representatives must refrain from any display of religion.
12:45But private citizens and organizations are free to practice and express the religion of their choice where and as they wish,
12:53although discrimination based on religion is prohibited.
12:57In recent years, there have been a trend towards a stricter interpretation of laïcité,
13:03which would also prohibit users of certain public services from expressing their religion,
13:09e.g. the 2004 law which banned school pupils from wearing blatant religious symbols,
13:16or banned citizens from expressing their religion in public, even outside the administration and public services,
13:23e.g. a 2015 law project prohibiting the wearing of religious symbols by the employees of private creches.
13:31This restrictive interpretation is not supported by the initial law on laïcité,
13:37and is challenged by the representatives of all the major religions.
13:41Authors, humorists, cartoonists, and individuals have the right to satirize people, public actors, and religions,
13:50a right which is balanced by defamation laws.
13:53These rights and legal mechanisms were designed to protect freedom of speech from local powers,
14:00among which was the then-powerful Catholic Church in France.
14:06Though images of Muhammad are not explicitly banned by the Qur'an itself,
14:11prominent Islamic views have long opposed human images, especially those of prophets.
14:18Such views have gained ground among militant Islamic groups.
14:23Accordingly, some Muslims take the view that the satire of Islam, of religious representatives,
14:31and above all, of Islamic prophets is blasphemy in Islam, punishable by death.
14:39This sentiment was most famously actualized in the murder of the controversial Dutch filmmaker Thieu van Gogh.
14:47According to the BBC, France has seen the apparent desire of such younger, often disaffected children,
14:55of grandchildren, of immigrant families, not to conform to Western liberal lifestyles,
15:01including traditions of religious tolerance and free speech.
15:05It's the story of a man who falls out of an immeuble of 50 floors.
15:09The man, during the period of his fall,
15:12he repeatedly repeating himself to be reassured.
15:15Until here, everything goes well.
15:18Until here, everything goes well.
15:20Until here, everything goes well.
15:23But the important thing is not the fall.
15:27It's the anger.
15:30We have to carry on until Islam has been rendered as banal as Catholicism.
15:43We have to carry on until Islam has been rendered as banal as Catholicism.
15:57You've been interrogated on these caricatures of Mahomet?
16:01I refuse.
16:02I refuse.
16:03What do I say?
16:04I'm going to say,
16:05we're going to cry of everything.
16:07It's normal.
16:08There's no subject.
16:10We can say that for the first time,
16:12the painting is a world event provoked by the painting.
16:16Yeah.
16:17I arrive.
16:18Attendez-moi.
16:19It's rare.
16:21There's no question in it.
16:22Well, like Iris,
16:23we wait with a big mouth of Mahomet.
16:26Because Sarkozy is just a secret.
16:29He did not know what he did.
16:30Sarkozy, he did not know.
16:31He did not know his words.
16:32Sarkozy, he did not know his friend.
16:33I am afraid to see.
16:34Yes.
16:35I prefer a excess of caricature than an excess of censure.
16:41You want to be Sarkozy?
16:43I need to go to Sarkozy because I'm happy because I'm happy.
16:50Or I need to go to sleep.
16:52It's a lot.
16:53Even if we go into it, it's a lot.
16:55What do you want to do if you do the work?
16:58I'm afraid that you are in.
17:00Plus they are in.
17:01I'm afraid that you are in.
17:03They didn't have the right to caricature the Brezhnev and the band.
17:06All the Kremlin has never been caricatured.
17:09You don't need to go to URSS.
17:11When I worked at Luma, no one was drawing.
17:14George Marchais or a secretary of the party.
17:18When you go to Cuba, there are a lot of humorists.
17:22There are a lot of caricatures.
17:24But there is no one who doesn't like Castro.
17:27So we have the pot?
17:29Yes, we have the pot.
17:30In France, it's a paradise.
17:35What do you want to do, the coverture?
17:37It's a good one, the coverture.
17:39I don't touch my Mahomet.
17:40I don't touch my Mahomet.
17:41I don't touch my Mahomet.
17:42It's even the line of all the numbers.
17:43It's super good.
17:45And it's even better than it makes it measure
17:47how we are passing.
17:48I don't touch my Mahomet.
17:49I don't touch my Mahomet.
17:51I don't touch my Mahomet.
17:52It's not anti-racism.
17:53It's anti-blast-fem.
17:54For that, it's very good.
17:56You could deliver a message rather nice.
18:01It's a huge thing.
18:03It's a big thing.
18:04You should know how to do a grain.
18:06You should know how to do this.
18:07Mahomet is a good man.
18:09You should know how to do that.
18:10I'm sorry.
18:11It's hard to be afraid by his Mahomet.
18:15It's not bad.
18:16It's not bad.
18:18It's not bad.
18:19I don't touch my Mahomet.
18:21Oh my God!
18:23Mahomet, fatigué des intérêts de Mahomet.
18:25Mahomet, fatigué des intérêts de Mahomet.
18:27Mahomet, débordé par les intérêts de Mahomet.
18:31Et là, il dit...
18:33C'est dur d'être aimé par l'école de Mahomet.
18:35En tout cas, il y a un truc qui est malin, c'est...
18:39On n'a pas représenté Mahomet.
18:41Là, on ne voit pas le visage de Mahomet.
18:43Comme ça.
18:47Ah, c'est plus fort.
18:49C'est plus fort.
18:51The attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters.
18:54On the morning of January 7th, 2015, a Wednesday,
18:58Charlie Hebdo staff were gathered at 10 rue Nicolas-Epperet
19:03in the 11th arrondissement of Paris
19:06for the weekly editorial meeting starting around 10.30.
19:10The magazine had moved into an unmarked office at this address
19:15following the 2011 firebombing of their previous premises
19:19due to the magazine's original satirization of Muhammad.
19:24Around 11 a.m., two armed and hooded men first burst into the wrong address
19:30at 6 rue Nicolas-Epperet, shouting,
19:34Is this Charlie Hebdo?
19:36and threatening people.
19:37After realizing their mistake and firing a bullet through a glass door,
19:41the two men left for 10 rue Nicolas-Epperet.
19:45There, they encountered cartoonist Corrine, Coco, Ray and her young daughter outside
19:52and at gunpoint forced her to enter the passcode into the electronic door.
19:58The men sprayed the lobby with gunfire upon entering.
20:02The first victim was maintenance worker, Frederic Boisseau,
20:06who was killed as he sat at the reception desk.
20:09The gunmen forced Ray at gunpoint to lead them to a second-floor office
20:15where 15 staff members were having an editorial meeting,
20:19Charlie Hebdo's first news conference of the year.
20:22Reporter Laurent Lejour said they were interrupted by what they thought was the sound of a firecracker,
20:29the gunfire from the lobby and recalled,
20:31We still thought it was a joke.
20:33The atmosphere was still joyous.
20:36The gunmen burst into the meeting room.
20:39The shooting lasted 5 to 10 minutes.
20:42The gunmen aimed at the journalists' heads and killed them.
20:46During the gunfire, Ray survived uninjured by hiding under a desk
20:51from where she witnessed the murders of Walensky and Kabu.
20:55Leger also survived by hiding under a desk as the gunmen entered.
21:0010 of the 12 people murdered were shot on the second floor past the security door.
21:06Psychoanalyst Elsa Kayat, a French columnist of Tunisian Jewish descent, was killed.
21:14Another female colonist present at the time, crime reporter Sigalina Vinson, survived.
21:21One of the shooters aimed at her, but spared her, saying,
21:24I'm not killing you because you're a woman, and telling her to convert to Islam, read the Quran, and wear a veil.
21:31Oh, you're a scarf, you slut!
21:33She said he left the building shouting, Allahu Akbar.
21:36Other witnesses reported that the gunmen identified themselves as belonging to Al Qaeda in Yemen.
21:43An authenticated video surfaced on the internet that shows two gunmen and a police officer, Ahmed Merabet,
21:51who was wounded and lying on a sidewalk after an exchange of gunfire.
21:56This took place near the corner of Boulevard Richard Lenoir and Rue Moufflé, 180 meters, 590 feet, east of the main crime scene.
22:07One of the gunmen ran towards the police and shouted,
22:10Do you want to kill us?
22:12The policeman answered, No, it's fine, boss,
22:15and raised his hand toward the gunman, who then murdered the policeman with a fatal shot to the head at close range.
22:23Come on!
22:24Come on!
22:25Come on!
22:26Come on!
22:27Come on!
22:28Come on!
22:29Come on!
22:30Come on!
22:31Come on!
22:32Come on!
22:33Come on!
22:34Come on!
22:39Sam Kiley of Sky News concluded from the video that the two gunmen were military professionals and likely had combat experience,
22:49saying that the gunmen were exercising infantry tactics such as moving in mutual support and were firing aimed single round shots at the police officer.
22:59He also stated that they were using military gestures and were familiar with their weapons and fired carefully aimed shots with tight groupings.
23:09The gunmen then left the scene shouting,
23:12We have avenged the prophet Muhammad!
23:14We have killed Charlie Hebdo!
23:16They escaped in a getaway car and drove to Port de DuPonten, hijacking another car and forcing its driver out.
23:25As they drove away, they ran over a pedestrian and shot at responding police officers.
23:31Jihadist flags and Molotov cocktails were found in an abandoned getaway car, a black Citroën Z3.
23:40Charlie Hebdo had attracted considerable worldwide attention for its controversial depictions of Muhammad.
23:47Hatred for Charlie Hebdo's cartoons, which made jokes about Islamic leaders as well as Muhammad, is considered to be the principal motive for the massacre.
23:57Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, suggested that the motive of the attackers was absolutely clear, trying to shut down a media organization that lampooned the prophet Muhammad.
24:11In March 2013, Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen, commonly known as Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, AQAP, released a hit list in an edition of their English-language magazine, Inspire.
24:26The list included Stéphane Chabinier and others whom AQAP accused of insulting Islam.
24:35On January 9th, AQAP claimed responsibility for the attack in a speech from AQAP's top Sharia cleric, Harith bin Ghazi al-Nadhari, citing the motive as revenge for the honor of Muhammad.
24:54As many of you know, there was a terrible tragedy in France today.
24:59Twelve people were killed because a satirical newspaper made jokes that some group found offensive.
25:07Now, obviously, everyone here, all of us, are accustomed to bad news from around the world.
25:12But this story really hits home for anyone who day in and day out mocks political, social, and religious figures.
25:19In this country, we just take it for granted that it's our right to poke fun at the untouchable or the sacred.
25:28But today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right some people are inexplicably forced to die for.
25:38So, it is very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, and believe it or not, this is a comedy show, that's what we're trying to do here.
25:48All of us are terribly sad for the families of those victims, for the people of France, and for anyone in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke.
26:01It's not the way it's supposed to be. So, we'll move on now. We're trying to do a show. We'll do a show. We'll do a good show. We'll do a great show.
26:13And the hunt continues with one reported sighting of the gunman this morning. That's a gas station in northern France.
26:18You see it being sealed off now by the police. French officials reporting several arrests, but the gunman's still on the loose.
26:24And after the worst attack in decades in France, massive vigils overnight. So many people pouring into the streets to show their support.
26:32Just moments ago, a moment of silence at Notre Dame, right in the center of Paris.
26:43And ABC's Terry Moran is right there. He begins our team conference this morning. Good morning, Terry.
26:48Good morning, George. Fast-breaking developments on this story on this rainy and sad day in Paris.
26:56Overnight, the youngest of the suspects, 18-year-old Hamid Murad, turning himself in.
27:01The prosecutors here saying, as of now, he is still being held for questioning.
27:05But the focus clearly on those two gunmen. As you say, police investigating reports, they have been cited in the north of Paris.
27:11In the north of France, there's been a shootout in the south of this city. One police officer killed.
27:17Not clear if that is connected to the attack, but it contributes to the sense here that this is a city and a country in shock and on edge.
27:26This morning, an urgent manhunt for the two gunmen responsible for the terror attack that stunned Paris and the world.
27:33Authorities also releasing this wanted poster of the two suspected gunmen still at large.
27:39Police dressed in assault gear are massing near a large forest about an hour northeast of the city.
27:45They believe the suspects may be hiding in that wooded area.
27:48They've been searching villages just outside of it, and that's where we're heading right now.
27:52These assault teams are going door-to-door looking for these two suspects. A scene that's being played out in villages all over the area.
28:17Police quickly identified brothers Sharif and Saeed Kowashi as the main suspects.
28:45French citizens born in Paris to Algerian immigrants. The brothers were orphaned at a young age after their mother's apparent suicide and placed in a foster home in Rennes.
28:58After two years, they were moved to an orphanage in Corrées in 1994.
29:05Along with the younger brother and an older sister, the brothers moved to Paris around 2000.
29:11Sharif, also known as Abu Isin, was part of an informal gang that met the Parc de Bouchermont in Paris to perform military-style training exercises and sent would-be jihadists to fight for Al-Qaeda in Iraq after the 2003 invasion.
29:28Sharif was arrested at age 22 in January 2005 when he and another man were about to leave for Syria, at the time a gateway for jihadists wishing to fight U.S. troops in Iraq.
29:43Well, Mr. President, there's actually happy people in Ardmore, Oklahoma, because that's where a lot of these tanks come from.
29:49That's good!
29:50And the other half of them comes from Wichita Falls, Texas.
29:53There you are!
29:54I was the face of the prisoner abuse scandal back in 2004.
30:03I decided to put a book out.
30:05I'm just trying to let people understand more or less that I wasn't actually involved in anything other than being in the pictures.
30:19It's just like a really sad love story, really, because, you know, if it wasn't for Granger, like I said, I wouldn't have even been over there in that section.
30:30And I didn't want to be in the pictures, any of them.
30:35And I told them that, you know, I was like, no, I'm not going to go over there and stand by this guy or do this or that.
30:42And what does he do? He pulls the old, if you love me, go do this.
30:48I'm sorry I was in the picture. I'm sorry I was posing in the picture, you know, there.
30:55You know, I'm sorry that that had to, that that happened to them.
31:01I would just hope that people realize that I'm, I am a human being and, you know, people make mistakes.
31:11People ask me, like, do I regret anything that happened if, if I could go back and change something, what would it be?
31:22Well, I'd have to say I wouldn't change anything.
31:26In 2004, images from the Abu Ghraib prison proved the US military was engaging in both physical torture and, in some cases, sexual abuse.
31:34Congress, in response to the Abu Ghraib scandal, passed the Detained Treatment Act of 2005, banning torture by the military, but not the CIA.
31:43However, Bush's signing statement indicated that he might authorize a violation of the law whenever he wanted.
31:50In terms of bombings, the numbers are massive.
31:53And in terms of civilians killed, the numbers are terrifying.
31:57All estimates of Iraq war casualties are disputed for various political reasons, but even the low estimate at 200,000 people is an incredible loss of life.
32:07That is more than 70 9-11s.
32:10High estimates reach somewhere around 600,000 people, which is well over 200 9-11s.
32:15The George W. Bush administration caused a death toll of the equivalent of over 200 times the amount of Americans we lost on 9-11.
32:24In one country alone.
32:27This is particularly tragic when said country had nothing to do with 9-11.
32:32Among other countries, the death toll grows higher.
32:35I've discussed this at length in a previous video, but this bears repeating or at least summarizing.
32:40Contrary to popular belief that civilian casualties are marginal and unintended,
32:45Brown University's Cost of War project has proven that civilian casualties in the War on Terror outnumber military casualties.
32:52More civilians die in war than the people who either choose to fight or are conscripted to fight.
32:57In addition to those killed by direct acts of violence, the number of indirect deaths,
33:02those resulting from disease, displacement, and loss of critical infrastructure,
33:06is believed to be several times higher, running well into the millions.
33:10The Bush administration and its lawyers tried so hard to make their war crimes somehow not war crimes.
33:17Here are some examples.
33:19The Bush administration declared that the Geneva Conventions were inapplicable.
33:22It asserted that because those detained were not in uniform,
33:26this alone meant they were somehow not covered by the third Geneva Convention.
33:30But the document confers no such immunity from coverage.
33:35Article 3 states that all those no longer taking an active part in hostilities,
33:40including those captured or surrendered in war, are initially protected.
33:44Whether or not they are wearing uniforms is irrelevant.
33:48On September 6, 2006, Bush asked Congress to amend the War Crimes Act of 1996
33:54in order to decriminalize their actions retroactively.
33:58Among the war crimes that he thereby implicitly admitted authorizing in the past were
34:03disappearances, extrajudicial imprisonment, torture, transporting prisoners between countries,
34:09and denying the International Committee of the Red Cross access to prisoners.
34:14On the very same day, Bush ordered that 14 people detained in secret prisons be flown to Guantanamo for trial.
34:21He thereby admitted that he had been supporting American gulags overseas.
34:27Furthermore, one could argue that the entirety of the Iraq War constituted a war crime
34:32due to the illegality of the conflict in general.
34:35The United Nations Charter, which legally binds all nations,
34:39prohibits the use of armed force except in very limited conditions of self-defense,
34:44which were in this case, inapplicable.
34:46Without UN Security Council authorization, a good argument could be made
34:50that the US invasion of Iraq was itself unlawful.
34:54I think that all of us recognize that France is one of our oldest allies, our strongest allies.
35:05They have been with us at every moment when we've, from 9-11 on,
35:13in dealing with some of the terrorist organizations around the world that threaten us.
35:20For us to see the kind of cowardly, evil attacks that took place today, I think reinforces, once again,
35:31why it's so important for us to stand in solidarity with them just as they stand in solidarity with us.
35:36When the president says, we will hunt you down and make you pay, what does that look like?
35:41Is he going to order a mission to kill the people responsible,
35:44or would he be satisfied if they are captured and brought to trial?
35:47I think he made clear yesterday that he does not want them to live on the earth anymore.
35:52We tortured some folks.
35:54Wow.
35:55Um, you guys said that we did this for the show.
36:07Man.
36:08Man.
36:09He went to Flory Marouchis Prison, where he met Amidi Koulibaly.
36:14In prison, they found a mentor, Jamel Begal, who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2001
36:21for his part in a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris.
36:26Begal had once been a regular worshiper at Fensbury Park Mosque in London,
36:31and a disciple of the radical preachers Abu Hamzra al-Masri and Abu Qatada.
36:38Upon leaving prison, Sharif Khawashi married and got a job in a fish market on the outskirts of Paris.
36:45He became a student of Fareed Benito, a radical Muslim preacher at the Adawa Mosque at the 19th arrondissement of Paris.
36:53Khawashi wanted to attack Jewish targets in France, but Benito told him that France, unlike Iraq, was not, quote, a land of jihad.
37:04On March 28, 2008, Sharif was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to three years in prison,
37:11with 18 months suspended for recruiting fighters for the militant Islamist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group in Iraq.
37:19He said outrage at the torture of inmates by the U.S. Army at Baghdad Central Prison in Abu Ghraib inspired him to help Iraq's insurgency.
37:28Sharif Khawashi told BFM TV that he had been funded by a network loyal to Anwar Awlaki, who was killed by a drone strike in 2011 in Yemen.
37:40Thanks, Obama.
37:41Thanks, Obama.
37:42According to U.S. officials, the U.S. provided France with intelligence in 2011, showing the brothers received training in Yemen.
37:50French authorities monitored them until the spring of 2014.
37:55During the time leading to the Charlie Hebdo attack, Saeed lived with his wife and children in a block of flats in Henn.
38:04Neighbors described him as solitary.
38:07The weapons used in the attack were supplied via the Brussels underworld.
38:12According to the Belgian press, a criminal sold Amidi Koulibaly, the rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and Kalashnikov rifles at the Kuwashi brothers,
38:22used for less than 5,000 euros .
38:27We know from local officials here that there was a hostage inside the building.
38:45Let's remember, it was a small printing company in a small industrial estate on the edge of this town just northeast of Paris.
38:53The two gunmen arrived here after a car chase, after they shot their way through a boat block, having stolen a car earlier this morning,
39:02having been on the run for two days after their attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in the center of Paris.
39:10The police were clearly pleased that they'd finally identified them, they'd brought them out into the open.
39:15They must have been disappointed that the government had been able to get back to a place where they could put other people in danger,
39:22and their first priority now, probably, if they are moving in to try and end this operation,
39:27it would be the safety of the hostage they believe in.
39:31I'm just looking at another view, and again, the view that our viewers are seeing at the same time.
39:36This is from one side of the building. It's slightly closer to it in terms of the actual detail of the view,
39:42which appears to show, it was a moment ago, two police figures, I'm assuming, now just one, close to the wall of the building.
39:50The lights are now increasingly bright as well, because we're talking about dusk as well.
39:56And clearly, in the minds of those who may be carrying out some sort of attempted conclusion to this,
40:02is that this has been a number of hours, darkness is falling.
40:06At some point, there has to be a way of ending this.
40:10Yes, and don't forget, the two gunmen have been on the run for over 48 hours now.
40:17Last night, we assumed they probably slept out in the open somewhere in the woods about 20 miles northeast of here,
40:25where the police had been carrying out a widespread search yesterday around villages and in thick woodland there.
40:34They were pretty convinced that the gunmen hadn't escaped from that area,
40:38and that proved correct this morning when they emerged in a village just in that vicinity.
40:44We were just miles away when that happened.
40:46The gunshot has exploded.
40:48We went.
40:58Real quick.
41:00Coz real quick.
41:02Cold gunshots肉 لكن front,
41:03fandliervy,
41:13electing on the other side of our shackles.
41:15Traffic is flowing once again in this town, this small town very close to Charles de Gaulle
41:43International Airport. And it was here that this raid on the Kowatchee brothers took place a short
41:50while ago. Local officials tell us that the raid is over, that the Kowatchee brothers were killed.
41:56French media is reporting that the French commandos who've been watching this industrial
42:02building, a warehouse, all day, found the right opportunity when the Kowatchee brothers, the
42:10hostage takers, were separated from their hostage, from their one hostage, who we are told is now,
42:16has been freed and is in good health. And that as soon as they were separated, the commandos decided
42:22that was the opportunity to act, burst in, and the Kowatchee brothers responded by exiting the
42:29building, opening fire, and French television is reporting that three police officers were wounded.
42:35In the week after the shooting, 54 anti-Muslim incidents were reported in France. These
42:43included 21 reports of shootings, grenade throwing at mosques, and other Islamic centers, an improvised
42:50explosive device attack, and 33 cases of threats and insults. Authorities classified these acts as
42:57right-wing terrorism. On May 3rd, 2015, two men attempted an attack on the Curtis Colwell Center in
43:05Garland, Texas. The center was hosting an exhibit featuring cartoons depicting Muhammad. The event was
43:12presented as a response to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and organized by the group American Freedom
43:18Defense Initiative, AFDI. Both gunmen were killed by police. The editor of Titanic, a German satirical
43:26magazine, declared, we are scared when we hear about such violence. However, as a satirist, we are
43:33beholden to the principle that every human being has the right to be parodied. This should not stop
43:38just because of some idiots who go around shooting. In Australia, what was considered the iconic national
43:45cartoonist reaction was a cartoon by David Pope in the Convera Times, depicting a masked, black-clad
43:53figure, with a smoking rifle, standing poised over a slumped figure of a cartoonist in a pool of blood,
44:00with a speech bubble showing the gunman saying, he drew first.
44:04What was the name of the CIF?
44:08At CIF, you know, I worked for almost three years. In three years, I saw thousands of
44:14thousands of cases, hundreds of thousands, not far from more than two thousand cases, I think.
44:20Many were very shocked. What struck me the most, it was the physical violence.
44:27Women who have been physically agressed, I think that it is very violent. But in addition,
44:34to being aggressive because of who we are, it is totally violent. The crime of haine,
44:40really, it is something psychological very, very hard. So there are cases of aggression that
44:45have a lot marked me. There were women who had taken care of the hat. It happened to me,
44:49it happened to my friend. So it is extremely humiliating, it is traumatizing, it is violent.
44:54Do you think that it is more the media that influence the people, or more the people who have already
45:00received their ideas?
45:00Well, it is a good question. It is a good question. I also assumed it. I thought,
45:06is it that, finally, the French are so Islamophobes as it? Because I am a bit between the two
45:12worlds, between the two communities, if we can talk about community. I am feeling daily that people are
45:19much more open to mind than we believe. Evidently, you will always have people who will
45:23speak up, to speak up, to speak up. But anyway, we are in 2018, we are in France,
45:29people are still more open to mind, I think. In any case, it has evolved little
45:34at little, not at all. But I realized that, finally, the institutions are much more racist than
45:44the people they are.
45:45For the most part in the world, the
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