[{"command":"openDialog","selector":"#drupal-modal","settings":null,"data":"\u003Cdiv class=\u0022m-person m-person__popup node node--type-leader node--view-mode-extremist-convert-card ds-1col clearfix\u0022\u003E\n\n  \n\n  \n\u003Cdiv  class=\u0022m-person__image\u0022\u003E\n    \n                \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-field-extremist-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item\u0022\u003E  \u003Cimg loading=\u0022lazy\u0022 src=\u0022\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/awlaki_grids\/public\/extremist_image\/Peter%20Cherif.png?itok=TnQmI46t\u0022 width=\u0022186\u0022 height=\u0022186\u0022 alt=\u0022\u0022 typeof=\u0022foaf:Image\u0022 class=\u0022image-style-awlaki-grids\u0022 \/\u003E\n\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \n      \n                \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-node-link field--type-ds field--label-hidden field__item\u0022\u003E  \u003Ca href=\u0022\/extremists\/peter-cherif\u0022 class=\u0022a-button--center a-button\u0022 hreflang=\u0022en\u0022\u003EView Report\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \n      \n  \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cdiv  class=\u0022m-person__meta\u0022\u003E\n    \n                \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field__item\u0022\u003E\u003Ch2 class=\u0022a-header--3\u0022\u003E\n  Peter Cherif\n\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \n      \n                \u003Cdiv class=\u0022clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-extremists-convert-descrip field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item\u0022\u003E  \u003Cp\u003EForeign fighter, France: A foreign fighter suspected to have played a central role in the January 2015 \u003Cem\u003ECharlie Hebdo\u003C\/em\u003E attacks in Paris. Cherif began fighting with al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2004, and was arrested in December of that year by U.S. forces stationed near Fallujah. He was transferred to Abu Ghraib in August 2005, and sentenced to 15 years in prison by an Iraqi court in July 2006. Cherif escaped from prison in March 2007 during an insurgent attack and traveled to Syria, where he surrendered to French authorities in early 2008, claiming to have given up on terrorism. French authorities\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n          \n              \u003Ch3  class=\u0022a-header--5 field-label-above\u0022\u003EConverted to Islam\u003C\/h3\u003E\n  \n              \u003Cp\u003EConverted in 2003 and reportedly became radicalized under the influence of Farid Benyettou, a self-declared imam in Buttes Chaumont, France, who was arrested in 2005 for trying to go to Iraq. Cherif grew up in France to a Tunisian mother and Catholic Afro-Caribbean immigrant father who died when Cherif was 14 years old. Cherif ran into legal trouble for drugs and armed robbery as a teenager. He went on to join the army but was injured while parachute jumping in 2002. Cherif was responsible for introducing \u003Cem\u003ECharlie Hebdo\u003C\/em\u003E attacker Ch\u00e9rif Kouachi to Benyettou, according to French judicial records\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n      \n  \n\n\n  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-extremist-converts-sources field--type-text-long field--label-inline\u0022\u003E\n    \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__label\u0022\u003ESources\u003C\/div\u003E\n                  \u003Cdiv class=\u0022field__item\u0022\u003E  \u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/programmes\/5301512.stm\u0022\u003EBBC News\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/06\/04\/how-france-let-the-charlie-hebdo-killers-go-free.html\u0022\u003EDaily Beast\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/01\/10\/paris-jihadis-were-all-molotov-cocktails.html\u0022\u003EDaily Beast\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2006\/aug\/08\/world\/fg-juliet8\u0022\u003ELos Angeles Times\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/en.rfi.fr\/france\/20110310-french-man-arrested-iraq-sentenced-5-years-prison\u0022\u003ERadio France Internationale\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/meet-farid-benyettou-man-who-trained-paris-attack-suspect-cherif-kouachi-298028\u0022\u003ENewsweek\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/isis-who-are-us-most-wanted-jihadists-list-1522031\u0022\u003EInternational Business Times\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022\/\/\/C:\/Users\/jshain\/AppData\/Local\/Microsoft\/Windows\/Temporary%20Internet%20Files\/Content.Outlook\/LR1XLADE\/v\u0022\u003EWall Street Journal\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n              \u003C\/div\u003E\n\n  \u003C\/div\u003E\n\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n","dialogOptions":{"closeOnEscape":true,"minWidth":850,"resizable":true,"modal":true,"title":"Peter Cherif"}},{"command":"doFootnotes"}]