Charlie Hebdo suspects were on US terror database

January 09, 2015 12:34

A senior US administration official said it was believed that one of the two suspects, Said Kouachi, had trained with Al Qaeda in Yemen. The AFP reports that both brothers had been on a US terror watch list "for years'.

The brothers were both flagged in a US database as terror suspects, and also on the no-fly list, meaning they were barred from flying into the United States, the officials said.

A police source told AFP the younger of the pair, Cherif Kouachi, had not traveled overseas recently and neither brother was being monitored "as targets who could move into action."

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