ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attack in Nice

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By ALISSA J. RUBIN and AURELIEN BREEDEN
JULY 16, 2016

NICE, France — The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for the Bastille Day attack on the seaside promenade in Nice, France, which killed 84 people and injured 202.

“The man behind the running-over operation in Nice, France, is a soldier from the Islamic State, and he carried out the attack to answer the calls for targeting the nationals of countries in the coalition that is fighting Islamic State,” said a statement from a social media account linked to the Amaq News Agency, which bills itself as the terrorist network’s semiofficial news outlet.

Also on Saturday, the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist communications, said that the Islamic State had featured its claim of responsibility in a news bulletin on its radio station, Al Bayan, and that it “threatened that ‘crusader states’ are not safe.”

The claim must be greeted with caution. The Islamic State has at times asserted responsibility for attacks carried out in its name, even when there was no indication that the terrorist network had any direct role in planning or carrying out the violence ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/world/europe/isis-nice-france-attack.html?_r=0

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... Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, asked on Friday if he could confirm the attacker's motives were linked to jihadism, said: "No... We have an individual who was not known to intelligence services" ...

Edwin Bakker, Professor at the Centre for Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, said the claim did not necessarily point to any formal link.

"Islamic State called for such (individual) attacks to be carried out back in 2014. They are also using the public perception that an attack like this seems to fit Islamic State. Investigators still have not discovered a direct link between Islamic State and the attacker, so it is a cheap claim," he said ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-attacks-nice-raid-idUSKCN0ZW0DT

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2. The claim must be greeted with caution.

I like that this sentence is buried in the middle of the article. This is what our media has become : huge titles to attract attention and then a disclaimer that it is a dubious claim buried in the article.

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3. that has been disproved.....

just attention getting headlines....