French Magazine Lampooned Religious, Political Figures

The French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo had just tweeted a cartoon mocking Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi when masked gunmen burst into its Paris office Wednesday. Paris police said at least 12 people were killed, including two police officers, and another 20 people were injured, with four or five listed in critical condition. Ten members of the Charlie Hebdo staff died in the attack, prosecutors said. Among the dead were four cartoonists, including...

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