New 'Charlie Hebdo' cover released

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Show Caption Hide Caption See Charlie Hebdo's somber new cover after attack USA TODAY'S Editor at Large/Media Columnist Rem Rieder discusses Charie Hebdo's new magazine cover that came out today and the mag to come out on Wednesday.

The latest issue of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, published by survivors of last week's deadly terror attack, features a cover cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed holding a sign that says "Je suis Charlie,'' an echo of the slogan of support for freedom of speech that spread across the globe after the tragedy.

The news agency Agence France-Presse on Monday distributed a copy of the new cover, which carries a caption that reads "Tout est pardonne,'' which translates into English as all is forgiven.

USA TODAY traditionally does not show images of Mohammed to avoid offending Muslim readers. But the magazine cover has enough news value to warrant its publication in this case.

Remaining Charlie Hebdo staff on Tuesday said an unprecedented run of 3 million copies of the next issue Wednesday were planned. "Three million people will have Mohammed's, the prophet's drawing, at home," Zineb El Rhazoui, a columnist for the newspaper, told the BBC. The remaining staff previously said that a million copied would be published.

"We will not give in. The spirit of 'I am Charlie' means the right to blaspheme," lawyer Richard Malka told France Info radio.

The press run is a huge jump from the normal circulation of 60,000 copies and reflects the strong outpouring of support from the public, including a show of solidarity by 1.5 million people in central Paris on Sunday.

Meanwhile, as many as six terror-cell members may still be at large after the Paris terrorism attacks, French police say.

Two French police officials, who were not identified by name, said one of the at-large cell members has been spotted driving a car registered to the widow of one of the slain attackers, Associated Press reported from Paris.

Paris police are searching for a Mini Cooper car registered to the widow, Hayat Boumeddiene, who Turkish officials say is now in Syria.

The two gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris last week, killing 12 people, had shouted that their mission was to avenge the newspaper's publication of what they said were denigrating cartoons about Islam.

The bloody attack triggered three days of terror in France, climaxing Friday in the fatal shooting of the Chérif Kouachi, 32, and his brother, Said, 34, by security forces in a town north of Paris, and the killing of an associate, Amedy Coulibaly, 32, who had taken over a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris, killing four people.

Some 10,000 security forces are being mobilized to protect the population against other possible terrorist attacks.

"The threat is still present," said Prime Minister Manuel Valls. He told BFM television on Monday that France is at war against "terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam."

The unity rally Sunday featured a procession led by French President Francois Hollande, who was joined by other world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.

The security forces will be deployed beginning Tuesday at the country's most vulnerable locations, including Jewish schools, said Jean-Yves Le Drian, France's defense minister.

On Friday morning, only hours before his death, Coulibaly told BFM television that he had coordinated his attacks with the Kouachi brothers. He claimed to be a member of Islamic State, the extremist organization that has taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq. Chérif Kouachi, in a separate interview, said the attacks were planned and financed by Al-Qaeda in Yemen.

Authorities initially believed that Coulibaly's common-law wife, Hayat Boumediene, 26, was involved in a policewoman's death and the supermarket takeover.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the state-run Anadolu Agency on Monday, however, that Boumediene arrived in Turkey from Madrid on Jan. 2, ahead of the attacks, and stayed at a hotel in Istanbul before crossing into Syria on Thursday.

In another development, a Yemeni reporter told the Associated Press on Monday that in 2010 he met Said Kouachi who claimed to have lived with the Nigerian who tried to carry out the failed al-Qaeda "underwear bomb" plot five years ago.

Yemeni journalist and researcher Mohammed al-Kibsi said he first met Kouachi in the capital, Sanaa, while the gunman was studying Arabic.

Al-Kibsi told the AP on Monday: "He was very polite and had a sense of humor so for me I could not expect that a few years later he would be the suspect of a terror attack."

The journalist said that Kouachi said that he had lived with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, convicted of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner.

In addition, a senior French police officer investigating the attack on Charlie Hebdo killed himself only hours after the bloody terrorist act, France 3 reports.

Commissioner Helric Fredou, 45, shot himself in his police office in Limoges last Wednesday night, the radio station reported.

"On this particular day of national mourning, police commissioners are hit hard by the tragic death of one of their own," said a spokesman for The Union of Commissioners of the National Police, The Daily Mirror reports.

Colleagues told France 3 that Fredou was overworked and "depressed," The Mirror said.

Contributing: William M. Welch, USA TODAY; Associated Press