Terrorists Attack Charlie Hebdo Offices; Kill Twelve; Manhunt Underway

Around noon today at least two heavily armed attackers, possibly masked, entered the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris and shot and killed 10 journalists. Charlie Hebdo has been targeted for several years by fundamentalist Muslim groups because it republished the famous cartoons originally created by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, and it continues to publish satirical cartoons on the subject of extremism.

The gunmen also killed two police officers. Paris law enforcement is now engaged in a city-wide man hunt for the perpetrators. French President Francois Hollande has vowed that the nation will capture those who carried out the terrorist attack.

The BBC is updating its coverage here.

Additional coverage here from CNN.com (with video), here from Le Monde.