Web of Terror: Paris attackers’ connection to global jihad

But when that gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, took hostages at a kosher supermarket the next day, demanding that police stand down from a siege of the Kouachi brothers happening just outside the city, a web of connections started to become clear.

And as investigators look into the horrific events that shook France and the world this month, it becomes clear that the links spread from Paris out to Yemen, Syria, Iraq and beyond.

CNN’s Scott Bronstein and Florence Davey-Attlee contributed to this report.

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