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ByLoriHinnantand Elaine Ganley The Associated Press PARIS Withexplosionsand gunfire, security forces on Friday ended a three-day terror spree around Paris, killing the two al-Qaida- linked brothers who staged a murderous rampage at a satirical newspaper, and an associate who seized a ko- sher supermarket to try to help them escape. The worst terrorist at- tacks France has seen in decades killed at least 20 people, including the three gunmen. The fate of a fourth suspect — the wife of the market attacker — re- mained unclear. Al-Qaida's branch in Ye- men said it directed the at- tack against the publication Charlie Hebdo to avenge the honor of the Prophet Mu- hammad, a target of the weekly's satire. Paris shut down a famed Jewish neighborhood amid fears that a wider cell might launch further violence. President Francois Hol- lande called on his nation to remain united and alert. "The threats facing France are not finished," he said. "We must be vigilant," he said — and defiant. "We are a free people who cave to no pressure." The drama, which played out on live TV and in so- cial media, began with the brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi methodically kill- ing 12 people Wednesday at the offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo before escaping by car. The next day, a gunman police identified as Amedy Couli- ably shot a policewoman to death south of Paris. It ended at dusk Friday with near simultaneous raids in two locations: a printing plant in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, where the Koachis were holed up with a lone hostage, and the Paris supermarket where Coulibaly was holding shop- pers at gunpoint and threat- ened to kill them unless po- lice let the Koachis go. As black-clad security forces surrounded both sites, booming explosions, heavy gunfire and dense smoke heralded the news that the sieges were over and the three gunmen were dead — but also killed were four of the hostages at the kosher market. Sixteen hos- tages were freed, one from the printing plant and 15 others from the store. The attackers had ties to each other and to terrorism that reached back years and extended from Paris to al- Qaida in Yemen. They epito- mized Western authorities' greatest fear: Islamic rad- icals who trained abroad and came home to stage attacks. After the killings at the Charlie Hebdo offices, Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his 34-year-old brother Said led police on a chase around northeastern France, rob- bing a gas station and stealing a car before end- ing up at the printing plant in Dammartin-en-Goele, which is near Charles de Gaulle airport. BFM television said it spoke with Cherif Koua- chi, who told the station they were financed and dis- patched by al-Qaida in Ye- men. A member of the al-Qa- ida in the Arabian Penin- sula provided a statement Friday in English to The Associated Press saying the group's leadership "di- rected the operations and they have chosen their tar- get carefully." The attack was in line with warnings from the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to the West about "the consequences of the persistence in the blasphemy against Mus- lim sanctities," the mem- ber said, speaking on condi- tion of anonymity because the group's regulations do not permit him to give his name. He said the group has de- layed its declaration of re- sponsibility for "security reasons." The brothers were cor- nered there for much of the day before the explosions and gunfire rang out in the twilight and a police SWAT team clambered onto the roof. Town spokeswoman Au- drey Taupenas said the brothers had died in the clash. "They said they want to die as martyrs," Yves Al- barello, a local lawmaker inside the command post, told French television sta- tion i-Tele. At the kosher grocery near the Porte de Vincennes neighborhood in Paris, the gunman burst in shooting just a few hours before the Jewish Sabbath began, de- claring "You know who I am," the official recounted. The attack came before sun- down when the store would have been crowded with shoppers. Paris police released a photo of Coulibaly and his wife, Hayat Boumeddiene, who the official said was an accomplice. Several people who were wounded when the gunman opened fire in the grocery store fled and got medical care, the official said. Minutes before police stormed both sites, Cou- libaly had threatened to kill his five hostages if authori- ties launched an assault on the two brothers, a police official said. BFM also said it spoke with Coulibaly, who said he and the Kouachis were coordinating their ac- tions, and that he was with the militant Islamic State group. The organizations are normally rivals. Police said Coulibaly had been a co-suspect with Cherif Kouachi in a court case involving terrorism that never made it to trial. NEWSPAPER ATTACK French security forces kill gunmen, end hostage sieges PREFECTUREDEPOLICEDEPARIS—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS The suspects Cherif Kouachi, le , and Said Kouachi, now deceased, are shown. FRANCOIS MORI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Police officers look for clues while a body, partially seen at right, lies in the kosher market, in Paris, on Friday. What started as a hunt for two terror suspects took on an even graver focus Friday as French police grappled with a potential terrorist cell. Fresh coverage 5 days Tuesday,January27 Wednesday, January 28 Thursday, January 29 Friday, January 30 & Saturday, January 31 ContactyourAdvertising Representative today (530)527-2151 N EWS D AILY RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY published only in the Deadline for 5x Flights: Friday, January 23 at 10AM CUSTOM DAILY EDITIONS Bull&GeldingSale SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 7 A