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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® from PMI is a globally recognized certification for experienced project managers. For those newer to the field, PMI's Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® is a common starting point. Other notable certifications include those focused on agile methodologies, such as the PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)®, and program management certifications like the Program Management Professional (PgMP)®. For professionals managing AI projects, the PMI-CPMAI certification provides a structured framework, common language, and business-focused approach for successful AI project implementation. #### How does PMI support career growth for professionals? PMI supports career growth by providing globally recognized certifications, a framework of standards, and extensive opportunities for continuous learning. Members gain access to a global community for networking, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. The organization also produces research and thought leadership on emerging trends, helping professionals stay current with skills in areas like AI, agile practices, and strategic business management. These resources are designed to help professionals at all levels enhance their skills and advance their careers. #### What is the PMBOK® Guide? The PMBOK® Guide, or A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, is PMI’s foundational guide to generally accepted project management knowledge and practice. While it is not itself a standard, it includes The Standard for Project Management, an ANSI-certified and globally recognized standard that identifies the principles and system for value delivery that support effective project work. 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A look at how the world has united in response of the terror attacks in Paris._ by [Vivienne Walt / Paris](https://time.com/author/vivienne-walt/), [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/) and [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) Updated: Dec 13, 2023 8:12 PM UTCPublished: Jan 9, 2015 4:46 PM UTC  Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris. Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris.Dan Kitwood—Getty Images by [Vivienne Walt / Paris](https://time.com/author/vivienne-walt/), [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/) and [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) Updated: Dec 13, 2023 8:12 PM UTCPublished: Jan 9, 2015 4:46 PM UTC Three terror suspects and four hostages were killed in France on Friday, as police brought to an end two separate hostage incidents relating to the deadly terror attacks on satirical newspaper _Charlie Hebdo_. In an industrial estate outside Paris, police killed the two brothers who allegedly mounted Wednesday’s devastating assault that killed 12 people and set off the biggest manhunt in modern French history. Just a 15-minute drive away, SWAT teams killed another gunman who had holed up all afternoon in a kosher supermarket in a city suburb with several hostages. The siege left five dead in total, but the gunman’s alleged co-conspirator remained on the run Friday night, having escaped as police stormed the store. ### Witness Scenes From the Paris Hostage Standoff  Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris. Dan Kitwood—Getty Images  Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris. Dan Kitwood—Getty Images  French police special forces evacuate local residents on Jan. 9, 2015 in Saint-Mande, near Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris. Martin Bureau—AFP/Getty Images  People are led away from the scene as Police mobilize with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris. Dan Kitwood—Getty Images  Police are mobilized with reports of a hostage situation at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris. Dan Kitwood—Getty Images  A screengrab taken from an AFP TV video shows a general view of members of the French police special forces launching the assault at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris, on Jan. 9, 2015. Gabrielle Chatelain—AFP/Getty Images  The moment when members of the French anti-terror forces RAID storm the kosher store where Amedy Coulibaly, an islamist gunman holds hostages, on Cours de Vincennes in Paris, on Jan. 9, 2015. Nicolas Gouhier—ABACA Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, 34 and 32, the two French-born brothers who authorities say stormed _Charlie Hebdo_ with Kalashnikovs and then fled in a stolen vehicle, holed up in a commercial building in the small town of Dammartin-en-Goèle early on Friday morning, holding one hostage inside. They were killed following a long standoff with police. It now appears that the attack on _Charlie Hebdo_ may have been plotted by an al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen. The Kouachis [telephoned a French news channel](http://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/video/2015/01/09/les-interviews-des-terroristes-par-bfm-tv-pendant-les-prises-d-otages%5F4552984%5F3236.html), BFM Television, during the siege to tell them the attack had been ordered by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Later on Friday, an AQAP member claimed the group had directed the attack “as revenge for the honor” of the Prophet Muhammad, [the AP reports](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d91038227f634d0cb3ee49947e13a0c1/yemeni-official-suspect-paris-attack-fought-al-qaida). As SWAT teams closed in on the Kouachis, a separate crisis unfolded in the Porte de Vincennes area, the easternmost edge of Paris. Inside the Hyper-Casher kosher supermarket, a gunman held several people hostage, and finally died in a blaze of gunfire as crack anti-terror forces stormed the building at sundown. The French ambassador to the U.S., Gerard Araud, confirmed the news in a tweet: > [](https://twitter.com/GerardAraud/status/553592824495865856) That gunman, police said, was Amedy Coulibaly, 32, the same man believed to have opened fire on police officers in the southern Paris suburb of Montrouge on Thursday morning, after they stopped their car, and then fled the scene with girlfriend Hayat Boumedienne, 26\. One of the officers, a woman, died of her injuries about two hours after the shooting. Coulibaly also [contacted BFM](http://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/video/2015/01/09/les-interviews-des-terroristes-par-bfm-tv-pendant-les-prises-d-otages%5F4552984%5F3236.html) as he was under siege to say he had been acting on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), but the extremist group—which is not allied with al-Qaeda—has not claimed to have engineered that attack. At least 10 hostages escaped, according to a Alliance Police Union spokesman, [CNN reports](http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/09/europe/charlie-hebdo-paris-shooting/index.html)—but Boumedienne is believed to have escaped from the store in the confusion as hostages fled the building. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve confirmed that four hostages had died, and four more injured. French President François Hollande urged his citizens to bind together against “fanatics who have nothing to do with the Muslim religion” in a speech on Friday. “This solidarity is something that we have to show with all our capacity. We are a free people, we will not give in to any pressures or any fears,” he said. “I assure you that we will come out even stronger from this hardship.” Speaking at an event in Tennessee, President Barack Obama said his aides had been in close contact with their French counterparts Friday as the hostage situations unfolded. “The United States stands with you today, stands with you tomorrow,” he said. “We grieve with you. … We grieve with you, we fight alongside you to uphold our values, the values that we share, universal values that bind us together as friends and as allies. “In the streets of Paris, the world has seen once again what terrorists stand for,” Obama added. “They have nothing to offer but hatred and human suffering.” ### French Police Respond to Hostage Situation in Industrial Estate  Armed security forces fly overhead in a military helicopter in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, Jan. 9, 2015. Thibault Camus—AP  Police and army forces take positions in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast Paris, as part of an operation to seize two heavily armed suspects, Jan. 9, 2015. Michel Spingler—AP  Members of the French gendarmerie intervention forces arrive at the scene of a hostage taking at an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, Jan. 9, 2015. Christian Hartmann—Reuters  Children wait inside the Henri Dunand school before being moved to a safe location to be picked up by their parents in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, France, Jan. 9, 2015. Peter Dejong—AP  Police forces evacuate the children of the Henry-Dunant primary school located next to printing company Creation Tendance Decouverte CTD, where the two Charlie Hebdo gunmen are detaining a hostage, in Dammartin-en-Goele, north of Paris, France on Jan. 9, 2015. Thierry Orban—Abaca  French police officers patrol in Dammartin-en-Goele where two brothers suspected of slaughtering 12 people in an Islamist attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo held one person hostage as police cornered the gunmen, on Jan. 9, 2015. Sipa  Smoke rises from a building in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, where the two brothers suspected in a deadly terror attack were cornered, Jan. 9, 2015. Michel Spingler—AP While Wednesday’s massacre and Thursday’s shooting at first appeared unconnected, French Prime Minister Manual Valls told reporters on Friday that the two were indeed linked, and that the Kouachi brothers seemed to have contact with Coulibaly. French officials said on Thursday night that the older Kouachi brother, Saïd, had traveled to Yemen in 2011 for weapons training. Police have tracked Chérif, the younger brother, for years, after arresting him in 2004 while he tried to travel to Syria for military training, in order to move on to Iraq to fight U.S. troops as part of al-Qaeda’s franchise there. French intelligence sources will now need to piece together the details—including the question as to how the Kouachis were able to pull off France’s worst terrorist attack in generations, against _Charlie Hebdo_‘s office, which had received multiple threats against it over the past few years. A White House spokesperson said President Barack Obama had been kept updated on the situation, with national security agencies and White House officials in touch with their French counterparts on a “minute by minute” basis. –_Additional reporting by Zeke J Miller / Washington_ _Read next:_ [_Watch Parisians Vow To Stand Strong Against Terror Threat_](http://time.com/3661514/paris-terror-attack-mourners/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3661623/charlie-hebdo-paris-terror-suspects-hostage-police/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3661623/charlie-hebdo-paris-terror-suspects-hostage-police/"},"headline":"Paris Terror Attack Suspects Killed After Police Standoffs","datePublished":"2015-01-09T16:46:37.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T20:12:24.000Z","description":"Twin raids bring to an end hostage situations in an industrial estate and a Kosher grocery","url":"https://time.com/3661623/charlie-hebdo-paris-terror-suspects-hostage-police/","keywords":["France"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbc432aa394875bd/698779045f570f4dcbb14970/paris-hostage-situation-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Vivienne Walt / Paris"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcbc432aa394875bd/698779045f570f4dcbb14970/paris-hostage-situation-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Paris Hostage Situation","caption":"Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes on Jan. 9, 2015 in Paris.","creditText":"Dan Kitwood—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3661623/charlie-hebdo-paris-terror-suspects-hostage-police/","name":"Paris Terror Attack Suspects Killed After Police Standoffs"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The World Mourns The Paris Terror Attacks","description":"A look at how the world has united in response of the terror attacks in Paris.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/tr7uFm9a/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-01-08T22:47:43.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tr7uFm9a.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3661623/charlie-hebdo-paris-terror-suspects-hostage-police/","duration":"PT1M29S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3661623/charlie-hebdo-paris-terror-suspects-hostage-police/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```