French police identify 3 suspects in attack that killed 12

PARIS (AP) -- French police officials say they have identified three men as suspects in a deadly attack against newspaper offices that killed 12 people and shook the nation.<br /> <br /> Two officials named the suspects as Frenchmen Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, in their early 30s, as well as 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, whose nationality wasn't immediately clear.<br /> <br /> One of the officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network.<br /> <br /> The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive and ongoing investigation.<br /> <br /> Cherif Kouachi was convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping funnel fighters to Iraq's insurgency and sentenced to 18 months in prison.<br /> <br /> No arrests have been confirmed in the hunt for the attackers. It was the deadliest attack in France in half a century.

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