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Al Qaeda-linked group claims Bangladesh killing: SITE
Source: Reuters
World | Fri Apr 8, 2016 11:44am EDT
Al Qaeda-linked group claims Bangladesh killing: SITE
A group affiliated with al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the killing of a liberal Bangladeshi blogger this week, the SITE monitoring service said on Friday, citing a statement posted by the group online.
Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladesh division of al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), said its members had carried out the attack as "vengeance" because blogger Nazimuddin Samad had abused God, the Prophet Mohammad and Islam in Facebook posts.
Reuters was not immediately able to verify the authenticity of the message but SITE said the group had provided a link to its digital signature to verify it.
The 28-year-old was killed in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Wednesday by attackers wielding machetes, the latest in series of murders of secular activists by suspected Islamist militants.
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Al Qaeda-linked group claims Bangladesh killing: SITE
A group affiliated with al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the killing of a liberal Bangladeshi blogger this week, the SITE monitoring service said on Friday, citing a statement posted by the group online.
Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladesh division of al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), said its members had carried out the attack as "vengeance" because blogger Nazimuddin Samad had abused God, the Prophet Mohammad and Islam in Facebook posts.
Reuters was not immediately able to verify the authenticity of the message but SITE said the group had provided a link to its digital signature to verify it.
The 28-year-old was killed in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Wednesday by attackers wielding machetes, the latest in series of murders of secular activists by suspected Islamist militants.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-blogger-qaeda-idUSKCN0X51Y4
