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pn Sunday, January 11, 2015 SunSentinel.com Sun Sentinel 3A Nation World France seeks calm after carnage Said, 34, had been trained in weapons handling in 2011 by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, U.S. officials said. Cherif Kouachi, 32, had been convicted in France in 2008 for recruiting insurgents to fight in Iraq. On Saturday, events took place across France to commemorate the attacks, with makeshift memorials springing up around Paris. Residents flocked to the Charlie Hebdo offices and the kosher grocery to lay flowers, light candles and pay their respects to the victims.

Near the Charlie Hebdo offices, a makeshift memorial to the victims had swelled into a mountain of flowers, candles, handwritten messages and pens an instrument that has come to symbolize defiance of the attackers. A steady stream of people filtered past quietly while a young man played a cello in the corner. "I felt the need to express myself and pay tribute to the Charlie Hebdo victims," explained Gilles Van Els-lande, 27. "This is the right time to play Bach." Meanwhile, Paris was gearing up for a massive solidarity rally Sunday, which was expected to attract thousands and will be attended by several European leaders, including British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Security was being amped up ahead of the march, and Cazeneuve vowed: "All the measures are in place to make sure this event takes place securely." The Associated Press Nation to rally as 'dangerous' woman sought By Christina Boyle Special to Tribune Newspapers PARIS France vowed to combat terrorism with "a cry for freedom" in a giant rally for unity Sunday after a three-day spree of violence horrified the world.

At the same time, police hunted for the girlfriend of one of the three dead Islamist gunmen, now considered the most wanted woman in France. An unnamed Turkish intelligence official told The Associated Press on Saturday that a woman by the same name flew to Istanbul on Jan. 2, five days before the attacks, and may have crossed into Syria. The official told the AP that the woman resembled a widely distributed photo of Hayat Boumeddiene and that she is believed to have traveled to the city of Sanli-urfa near the Syrian border, where "she then disappeared." She is suspected of being an accomplice to her partner, Amedy Coulibaly, who is believed to have gunned down a Paris policewoman Thursday. Authorities say she may have also helped Coulibaly take more than 15 people hostage at a Paris grocery store Friday, resulting in four dead.

Police describe her as "armed and dangerous." The deadliest episode in recent French history left 17 dead and several injured and panicked a nation now struggling with the question JEFF MITCHELLGETTY Mourners light candles Saturday at a makeshift memorial near the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris. Four hostages and three suspects were killed Friday when police ended sieges at a kosher supermarket and a printing company. 0 ing factory in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, about 30 miles northeast of Paris near Charles de Gaulle airport. While attention was focused on that police operation, Coulibaly entered a kosher grocery store in the east of Paris and took several people hostage Friday. He is believed to have shot and killed a policewoman investigating a report of a traffic accident in the south of Paris on Thursday morning.

The two standoffs ended with all three gunmen dead and Boumeddiene's whereabouts unknown. Coulibaly had reportedly telephoned BFM-TV in the afternoon and, when asked if there was a link between him and the Kouachi brothers, he responded, "Yes, we synchronized ourselves for that, the operations." Paris' chief prosecutor, Francois Molins, also said that Boumeddiene was in "constant and sustained" communication with Cherif Kouachi's girlfriend. "More than 500 calls" were made between the two women last year, he said, according to French reports. French President Francois Hollande called an emergency Cabinet meeting Saturday morning and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced the deployment of an extra 320 military personnel. Cazeneuve warned the nation to remain alert.

"We are exposed to risks," he said. Many questions remain unanswered, including how these three men were able to get their hands on such an array of weaponry, including Kalashnikov and other assault rifles, and why they were not under closer watch when they were already known to authorities who monitor security threats. Both Kouachi brothers were on a U.S. no -fly list and Boumeddiene and Coulibaly of how to handle homegrown Muslim extremists. The carnage began Wednesday morning, when Said and Cherif Kouachi entered the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people, including eight journalists and two police officers.

The brothers then went on the run and were finally cornered Friday in a print THE NEWSMAKER Kerry visits Oman's ruler Secretary of State John Kerry stopped News Tribune Newspapers and news services in Germany on Saturday to meet with the ailing ruler of Oman, the Mideast country that's served an important intermediary role in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. Kerry met with Sultan in Qaboos bin Said, 74, who has been receiving medical treatment in Germany since November. North Korea dangles nuclear test moratorium SEOUL, South Korea North Korea has told the United States that it is willing to impose a temporary moratorium on its nuclear tests if Washington scraps planned military drills with South Korea this year, the North's official news agency said Saturday. Washington called the linking of the military drills with a possible nuclear test "an implicit threat," but said it was open to dialogue with North Korea The U.S. has previously refused to cancel military drills with South Korea HECTOR RETAMALGETTY-AFP Obama set to address cybersecurity, ID theft WASHINGTON President Barack Obama will focus on high technology this week, announcing efforts to strengthen cybersecurity, prevent identity theft and increase Internet access, the White House said Saturday.

The initiatives will be included in his State of the Union address, which Obama is previewing before the Jan. 20 speech, rather than saving all his major policy announcements for the speech itself. The risks of cyberattacks have been highlighted in recent weeks by the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment computers. The FBI said North Korea was behind the attack; the U.S. ratcheted up sanctions against the nation in response.

During an event Monday at the Federal Trade Commission headquarters in Washington, Obama will talk about plans to address identity theft and improve privacy for consumers, particularly students, the White House said. He also will discuss the next steps in his BuySecure initiative. The program, created in October, secures payments to and from the government through new credit card technology. Some large companies, including Home Depot and Target, which have had major data breaches, committed to roll out more secure credit card terminals in their stores as part of the initiative. On Tuesday, Obama will visit the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Va, to discuss cybersecurity.

He will talk about efforts to increase information-sharing between companies and the government and to improve collaboration against threats. Anti-government protests in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Protesters march Saturday in Haiti's capital against the government of President Michel Martelly. On Monday, Haiti marks the fifth anniversary of a quake that killed 300,000, but also a new stage in its political crisis. Parliament will come to the end of its mandate and no date has been set for elections. Police defuse bomb in Istanbul shopping mall ISTANBUL Turkish police defused an improvised bomb found in a mall in an Istanbul suburb Saturday, the private Dogan news agency reported.

Police also detonated potentially explosive butane canisters found at another mall. It is the third in a string of recent terrorist incidents in Istanbul. On Jan. police subdued a man after he threw grenades at officers near the prime minister's offices. And on Tuesday, a suicide bomber killed a police officer and wounded another in a tourist district.

AirAsia jef tail does not yield flight recorders JAKARTA, Indonesia The tail of the crashed AirAsia jet was lifted from the Java Sea on Saturday, but it did not contain the flight recorders that are crucial to helping investigators determine why the jet went down two weeks ago. The 30-foot-long piece is the largest portion of the Airbus A320's fuselage to be retrieved by search crews battling stormy waters off Borneo island. The rear of the aircraft is where the recorders are stored. Explosion shakes Ohio refinery, but no one hurt An explosion at an Ohio oil refinery blew out windows at homes in Lima on Saturday and could be felt at least 10 miles away but resulted in no injuries, police said. AH workers were accounted for after the blast at the Husky Lima Refinery, police said.

The blast triggered a fire that burned into the afternoon and sent black smoke billowing into the air above the refinery. Crews were monitoring the air to make sure there was no danger to those nearby. Counterprotest draws thousands in Germany BERLIN Tens of thousands of people protested in the eastern German city of Dresden against racism and for an open society. The protests Saturday came in reaction to weekly anti-Islamic demonstrations that have been taking place in the city for months. The weekly rallies, which have drawn up 18,000 people, are organized by a group calling itself Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West.

Saturday's counterprotests mobilized around 35,000 protesters. Miles 100 TURKEY SYRIA Med. Sea SpaceX launches, but no luck with landing at sea CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla SpaceX sent a supply ship soaring flawlessly toward the International Space Station on Saturday, but the booster rocket ended up in pieces in the Atlantic after a failed attempt to land on a barge. "Close, but no cigar this time," the company's billionaire founder, Elon Musk, announced via Twitter. The 14-story booster did, however, manage to fly back to the floating platform from an altitude dozens of miles high.

Suicide bombers kill 7 at coffee shop in Lebanon A suicide bombing struck a coffee shop Saturday night in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, killing at least seven people and wounding more than 30, security officials and the Red Cross said. Syria's al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front claimed responsibility on Twitter for the blast in Tripoli's predominantly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen. The state-run National News Agency said two suicide bombers carried out the attack, identifying them as Lebanese citizens from the nearby neighborhood of Mankoubeen. LEBANON DETAIL AREA AFRICA ISRAEL JOR. SOURCE: ESRI TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS.