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France’s gendarmes are searching for the men below, Chérif Kouachi on the left, and his brother, Said, on the right. They’re the chief suspects in yesterday’s terrorist murders at the Paris based satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. The images are appearing all over the world and were, I presume, provided by French law enforcement authorities.
The left image of Chérif is the result of a few minutes work on my part. I used off-the-shelf software (Photoshop and Pixinsight) to make tonal and color corrections, and to bring his face into sharper focus. CNN (where I obtained the image), the New York Times, and other major news outlets can do this at least as well as I can. So can France’s constabulary. So, why didn’t they?
