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DHS increases security

"Homeland Security officials said Monday they have stepped up security at federal buildings and enhanced security screenings at airports in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks in Paris," USA Today's Gregory Korte writes.

Details here.

The reason Obama wasn't at the solidarity march in Paris

Bulgaria may extradite Frenchman with alleged links to Paris attackers

Reuters — Bulgaria plans to extradite a Frenchman suspected of knowing or having been in touch with one of the two Islamist militants who shot dead 12 people at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's offices last week, prosecutors said on Monday.

Using a European arrest warrant alleging that he had abducted his 3-year-old son and was likely to take him toSyria, Bulgarian police arrested Fritz-Joly Joachin, 29, on Jan. 1 at a border checkpoint when he tried to cross into Turkey.

A second European arrest warrant cites his possible association with one of the attackers and "conspiracy in terrorism" but has not yet been officially translated, a spokesman for the Haskovo regional prosecutors' office said.

The chief prosecutors' office in the Bulgarian capital Sofia declined to comment on the content of the second warrant.

A moment of silence

Via Agence France-Presse/Getty photographer Patrick Hertzog: Members of the European Parliament observe a minute of silence in Strasbourg, eastern France, for the victims of an attack by armed gunmen on the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo:

Upbringing and training of Charlie Hebdo assailants 

The Guardian's Angelique Chrisafis delves into the backgrounds of the attackers:

All three gunmen were French, from the Paris area, raised and radicalised there. The daily Libération called them “kids of France”. One lawyer on the case of the “Buttes-Chaumont” cell- called them the “lost children of the Republic”. The government now faces serious questions about homegrown terrorism and how men with convictions, jail terms and a place on the US blacklist slipped through the net.

More on the anti-Muslim incidents in France

Agence France-Presse — There have been more than 50 anti-Muslim incidents in France since last week's shootings by gunmen claiming to represent Islamist groups, the country's Muslim community said on Monday.

The incidents included 21 reports of shooting at Islamic buildings and the throwing of some form of grenades, and 33 threats, a spokesman for the monitoring body at the Central Council of Muslims in France said.

Timeline of terror attacks in Europe

The attack at the Charlie Hebdo offices last week was the "the biggest attack since July 2011, when a right-wing extremist opened fire on a youth camp in Norway," The Washington Post reports. 

Criticism over US 'high official' absence at Paris march

The solidarity march in Paris over the weekend, reported to be the largest rally in France's history, drew many leaders and delegates from around the world. One notable absence — that has drawn some criticism — was a "high official" from the US.

Here's US Secretary of State John Kerry's response to the critics, as reported by CNN:

"The U.S. has been deeply engaged with the people of France since this incident occurred," Kerry told reporters, adding that the United States has offered intelligence and law enforcement help. "This is sort of quibbling a little bit in the sense that our assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was there and marched, our ambassador was there and marched, many people from the embassy were there and marched."

Reports of more anti-Muslim attacks in France

Tributes to victims of Paris attacks at Place De La Republique

Turkey cannot be blamed for Paris suspect's entry to Syria: PM Davutoglu

Reuters — Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday Turkey should not be blamed after a suspected accomplice in last week's attacks in Paris traveled through Turkey to Syria before the killings occurred.

Turkish authorities first require intelligence in order to bar suspected travelers, he said, speaking at a news conference in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Turkey has deported between 1,500 and 2,000 foreign nationals whose names have appeared on a black list of 7,000 people provided by international intelligence agencies, he said.

On PEGIDA and the Paris attacks

Marches organized by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West or PEGIDA are planned across Germany today. The group held large-scale rallies in Dresden last week, which sparked larger counter-protests in Berlin and other German cities. 

Yesterday, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas called for the group to call off the rallies, Deutsche Welle reports. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has also condemned the protests. Merkel will reportedly join a "tolerance" march in Berlin tomorrow. 

Learn more about the PEGIDA movement here.

Europe's new terrorists are low-tech lone wolves who can still make major impact

GlobalPost's Paul Ames reports from Lisbon, Portugal:

Perhaps one of the most chilling images of Europe's modern terrorist threat is in the cringeworthy video of Cherif Kouachi attempting to rap.

The hip hop career was a failure, like much of the pre-terror life of Kouachi, his brother Said, and Amedy Coulibaly, the brothers’ alleged accomplice in last week's attacks that killed 17 people in Paris. The three men, all in their early 30s, were killed during raids on Friday.

Yet the transformation of the Kouachis and others like them from punk underachievers into trained killers able to wreak low-tech havoc in a major Western capital has become the number one nightmare of Europe's security forces.

Read on here.

France to deploy 10,000 soldiers in the country

Reuters — France will deploy 10,000 soldiers on home soil by Tuesday and post almost 5,000 extra police officers to protect Jewish sites after the killing of 17 people by Islamist militants in Paris last week, officials said. Speaking a day after the biggest French public demonstration ever registered, in honor of the victims, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the country remained at risk of further attacks.

Soldiers would guard transport hubs, tourism sites and key buildings and mount general street patrols.

"The threats remain and we have to protect ourselves from them. It is an internal operation that will mobilize almost as many men as we have in our overseas operations," Le Drian told reporters after a cabinet meeting.

The victims, including journalists and police, died in three days of violence that began on Wednesday with a shooting attack on the political weekly Charlie Hebdo, known for its satirical attacks on Islam and other religions. Many at Sunday's march wore badges and carried placards declaring "I Am Charlie."

The Charlie Hebdo attackers, two French-born brothers of Algerian origin, singled out the weekly for its publication of cartoons depicting and ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad. Charlie Hebdo's remaining members are working on an eight page issue due to come out on Wednesday with a one-million copy print run.

Its lawyer, Richard Malka, told France Info radio there would be caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. "We will not give in. The spirit of 'I am Charlie' means the right to blaspheme," he said, adding that the front page would be released Monday evening.

The three days of bloodshed ended on Friday with a hostage-taking at a Jewish deli in Paris where four hostages and another gunman were killed. That gunman declared allegiance to Islamic State insurgents and said he was acting in response to French military deployments against militant Islamist groups overseas.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 700 police officers would be placed at all 717 Jewish schools across the country in addition to some 4,100 gendarmes already deployed. "Synagogues, Jewish schools, but also mosques will be protected because in the past few days there have been a number of attacks against mosques," Prime Minister Manuel Valls told BFM TV.

Past coverage

Catch up on coverage of last week's deadly attacks across France:

At least a million march in Paris, thousands join rallies around world

Paris shooting suspects killed, along with hostage-taker and captives in Paris 'anti-Semitic' attack

Manhunt for Paris shooting suspects continues