One of the two brothers who killed 12 in a massacre at French satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo this week has said he received financing by al-Qaida preacher Anwar al Awlaki in Yemen.
Cherif Kouachi, who was killed along with his older brother by police on Friday after a siege at a printing works in north France following a three-day manhunt, made the assertion to BFM-TV before his death while holed up inside the building.
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Al Awlaki, an influential international recruiter for al-Qaida, was killed in September 2011 in a drone strike.
A senior Yemeni intelligence source earlier told Reuters that Kouachi's brother Said had also met al Awlaki during a stay in Yemen in 2011.
