One of the Charlie Hebdo killers, Cherif Kouachi, originally sought to escape his life of petty crime and poverty by becoming a famous rapper.
Cherif Bassiouni, a world-renowned expert in international criminal law (and an Egyptian), thinks the government may try to make the settlements more palatable to the public by presenting them as a revenue-generating requirement of any loan deal struck with the IMF.In the meantime, prosecutors will continue to pursue illicit gains through the courts.
Cherif Bassiouni, a former war-crimes lawyer for the UN who chaired the five-person panel, left little to the imagination as he described the systematic torture of prisoners, nearly all of them Shias, along with a "culture of impunity" in Bahrain's security forces.In this section Who will benefit from the chaos?
Several of the attackers on 9/11 were here on student visas they had overstayed".It bears emphasising that the brothers Cherif and Saif Kouachi, the main suspects in the Charlie Hebdo murders, now dead, do appear to have been radicalised Muslims, but they were not immigrants.
As it happens, one the the alleged murderers, Cherif Houachi, was convicted of terrorist activities in 2008, and during his trial attributed his radicalisation to scenes of abuse at Abu Ghraib, the American military prison in Iraq.
Shia groups were initially sceptical but its head, Cherif Bassiouni, a UN war-crimes expert, seems determined to root out those responsible for abuses.
It is instructive to note in this connection that Farid Benyettou, the man said to be responsible for Cherif Kouachi's turn to the dark side, was born in Paris.
Although it was initially unclear if the attackers had acted alone or at the direction of a larger organization, emerging information soon revealed that Said and Cherif Kouachi, the two brothers suspected of carrying out the Charlie Hebdo attack, had ties to militant groups and that Said, the older brother, had traveled to Yemen to meet with members of AQAP and possibly to receive training.
Twelve people were killed when brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi launched their assault during an editorial meeting in the magazine's offices.
Hayat was in regular phone contact with the wife of Cherif Kouachi, one of the brothers who shot 12 people dead at the Charlie Hebdo magazine offices on Wednesday, Le Parisien reported.
Zineb El Rhazoui insisted the team did not feel hatred towards brothers Cherif and Saïd Kouachi, who attacked the Paris office, and recognised that "the struggle is with an ideology" as she spoke of the difficult task of injured and traumatised staff pulling together the issue just three days after the attack.
