The suspected killer of a Paris police officer is linked to the brothers accused of the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre and is likely responsible for the armed siege at a kosher food store Friday, an official said. Amedy Coulibaly, 32, who is wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a female cop in the southwestern suburb of Montrouge early Thursday, is linked to Charlie Hebdo attack suspects Coulibaly and Cherif and Said Kouachi, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor's office said. The link between the suspects has not been specified, though Reuters earlier quoted a police source as saying the terror suspects were part of the same jihadi cell. U.S. Counter-terrorism sources told NBC News that the U.S. intelligence community is investigating possible links between the recent attacks in Paris and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, The officials said while ISIS may have the potential to stage attacks, only AQAP has a “demonstrated and repeated” history of such attacks in recent years. Police also issued an appeal for sightings of Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, in connection with the Montrouge cop killing.
