What is Charlie Hebdo? Behind the covers of the French satirical magazine targeted in deadly attack — mashable.com

French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo lampooned everything and everybody — and especially those who didn't want to be lampooned. The weekly magazine, for years a fixture of the liberal left in France, mocked politicians, business tycoons, military leaders, political conservatives and religious figures. Its cartoon covers often shocked and offended, usually, it seemed, on purpose. Wednesday's attack on the magazine's office in Paris — one of the deadliest deliberate attacks on journalists on record — left ten journalists and two police officers dead in what authorities described as a "terrorist attack." At least two gunmen participated in the massacre, shouting "Allahu akbar!" as they stormed the magazine's building, according to eyewitness reports.

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