webfact Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Yemen's al-Qaida claims responsibility for Paris attackCAIRO (AP) — A top leader of Yemen's al-Qaida branch has claimed responsibility for last week's attack on a Paris newspaper when two masked gunmen killed 12 people, including much of the weekly's editorial staff and two police officers.Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP as the branch is known, appeared in an 11-minute Internet video posted Wednesday, saying that the massacre at Charlie Hebdo was in "vengeance for the prophet." The paper had published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which is considered an insult in Islam.Al-Ansi say France belongs to the "party of Satan" and warned of more "tragedies and terror." He says Yemen's al-Qaida branch "chose the target, laid out the plan and financed the operation."-- (c) Associated Press 2015-01-14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuchulainn Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Je suis Charlie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lite Beer Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Qaeda in Yemen claims attack on France's Charlie HebdoDUBAI (AFP) - Al-Qaeda in Yemen has claimed responsibility for the attack on Charlie Hebdo in a video posted online, saying it was "vengeance" for the French weekly's cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.Nasser al-Ansi, one of the chiefs of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), said the attack was ordered by Ayman al-Zawahiri, the jihadist network’s global commander."We, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, claim responsibility for this operation as vengeance for the messenger of Allah," Ansi said in the video entitled "A message regarding the blessed battle of Paris."AQAP was formed in January 2009 as a merger of the Yemeni and Saudi branches of Al-Qaeda. Washington regards it as the network’s most dangerous branch and has carried out a sustained drone war against its leaders."The leadership of (AQAP) was the party that chose the target and plotted and financed the plan... It was following orders by our general chief Ayman al-Zawahiri," Ansi said."The heroes were chosen and they answered the call," he said.Speaking over footage of the attack that killed 12 people, Ansi said: "Today, the mujahedeen avenge their revered prophet, and send the clearest message to everyone who would dare to attack Islamic sanctities."Ansi referenced a warning by the late chief of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, who was killed by US commandos in May 2011."If the freedom of your speech is not restrained, then you should accept the freedom of our actions," he said.Charlie Hebdo had angered Muslims in the past by printing cartoons lampooning Mohammed and Islam.The claim of responsibility coincided with the return of Charlie Hebdo to newsstands, amid unprecedented demand that saw the paper to print five million copies.The new issue features another cartoon of Mohammed on its cover, with tears in his eyes, holding a "Je Suis Charlie" sign under the headline "All is forgiven".The perpetrators of the attack, brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, were known to have trained with AQAP.AQAP has a record of launching attacks far from its base in Yemen, including a bid to blow up a US airliner over Michigan on Christmas Day in 2009.The group recently called for its supporters to carry out attacks in France, which is part of a US-led coalition conducting air strikes against jihadists from the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. Source: http://www.nationmul...e-30251898.html -- The Nation 2015-01-14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zumteufel Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 "A message regarding the blessed battle of Paris". If that's what you like to call slaughtering unarmed cartoonists. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post empireboy Posted January 15, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 15, 2015 These people are cowards, heinously inhumane, and despicable.Removing them from society by whatever means necessary as a matter of urgent priority ought not be considered too strong a move by those within whose power it is to join forces and accomplish it.Seems to me they threaten the very existence of civilized humanity far more than global warming or any other current threat. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis7 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Looking for cheap publicity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesis7 Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 No religion on earth gives the right to take another persons life for the sake of revenge from insult . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudcrab Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 No religion on earth gives the right to take another persons life for the sake of revenge from insult . Except Islam apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transam Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 The free world are a coming.................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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