3,700 homes destroyed in Baga as Amnesty Int'l release satellite images from attack

Amnesty International has released satellite images from the January 2nd and 7th Boko Haram attack in Baga Borno state. Early reports put the death toll from the attack at 2000 but that has been disputed by the Nigerian military who put the death toll at 150.
According to a reportcarried out by AI's Nigeria researcher, Daniel Eyre, about 3,700 homes in two villages, Baga and Doron Baga were destroyed by the militants. The report claims that of all the Boko Haram attacks, the one carried out in Baga last week is so far the deadliest. Continue...

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First pic inside the blood- stained Charlie Hebdo newsroom where people were massacred

Above is the haunting first photograph from inside the Charlie Hebdo office where 8 cartoonists, a visitor, a maintenance worker and a police officer were massacred yesterday afternoon January 8th in the deadliest terrorist attack in Paris in decades. Another police officer was killed outside the building
The pic shows blood-stained wooden floors, papers strewn across the corridor & a blood everywhere.

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Meet the brothers who killed 12 people in Paris massacre yesterday

Brothers Cherif Kouachi (left), 32, & Said Kouachi (right), 34, both from Paris, have been identified as the men who stormed into the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo yesterday and killed 12 people, including two police officers. A third suspect, 18 year old Hamyd Mourad, who didn't fire any shorts, surrendered to police late last night after seeing his name circulating on social media. The two brothers, who are said to have been trained in Yemen as assassins, are still at large.

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Charlie Hebdo cartoonist who let the terrorist into the office speaks, says she was under desk as massacre took place

Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Corrine Rey (pictured above) was the person who let two armed terrorists into the French satirical magazine's office today. The young mother said she 'd just returned from picking her daughter from school when she was confronted by the men who threatened to kill her daughter if she doesn't give them the entry code for the building.
"I had gone to pick up my daughter at day care, arriving in front of the magazine building, where two masked and armed men brutally threatened us.

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