12 murdered in attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo


At least 12 people are dead, including two police officers, and another 10 are wounded after two masked men stormed the headquarters of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and opened fire.

Charlie Hebdo previously came under attack in 2011 after it published a satirical image of the Prophet Muhammad and ignited a firestorm within the Muslim community.

+ As of Thursday morning, NBC's Pete Williams, citing unnamed U.S. officials, is reporting that one suspect in the shooting has been killed and that the remaining two are in custody.

+ Here's why every newspaper should reprint the paper's controversial cartoons.

+ The newspaper's editorial director, cartoonist Stéphane Charbonnier, wasgunned down alongside well-known cartoonists Cabu, Wolinski and Tignous.

+ Charbonnier told Der Speigel after the offices were bombed in 2011: "A drawing has never killed anyone ... If we worried about the consequences of each of our drawings in each of our 1,057 issues, then we would have had to close shop a long time ago."

+ 15 powerful cartoons from artists speaking out against the vicious attack.

Charlie Hebdo actually has had more legal run-ins with Christians than with Muslims.

+ French media outlets are donating money and equipment to ensure the magazine will continue publishing and won't be silenced.

+ The attack on journalists is going to help the last people these extremists want to: Europe's burgeoning class of far-right xenophobes.

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