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French police identify 3 suspects in attack that killed 12

Paramedics wheel a victim to an ambulance on Jan. 7, 2015 in Paris, France, after an attack where masked gunmen attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and injuring seven. At least two masked attackers opened fire with assault rifles in the office and exchanged shots with police in the street outside before escaping by car. President Hollande said there was no doubt it had been a terrorist attack 'of exceptional barbarity.' A major police operation is under way in the Paris area to catch the killers. (Panoramic/Zuma Press/TNS)
Paramedics wheel a victim to an ambulance on Jan. 7, 2015 in Paris, France, after an attack where masked gunmen attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people and injuring seven. At least two masked attackers opened fire with assault rifles in the office and exchanged shots with police in the street outside before escaping by car. President Hollande said there was no doubt it had been a terrorist attack 'of exceptional barbarity.' A major police operation is under way in the Paris area to catch the killers. (Panoramic/Zuma Press/TNS)

PARIS (AP) — French police officials say they have identified three men as suspects in a deadly attack against newspaper offices that killed 12 people and shook the nation.

Two officials named the suspects as Frenchmen Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, in their early 30s, as well as 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, whose nationality wasn't immediately clear.

One of the officials said they were linked to a Yemeni terrorist network.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive and ongoing investigation.

Cherif Kouachi was convicted in 2008 of terrorism charges for helping funnel fighters to Iraq's insurgency and sentenced to 18 months in prison.

No arrests have been confirmed in the hunt for the attackers. It was the deadliest attack in France in half a century.

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