Al-Qaida member in Yemen says group directed Paris attack

[Bosonic]

Source: AP

CAIRO (AP) — A member of al-Qaida's branch in Yemen says the group directed the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris "as revenge for the honor" of Islam's Prophet Muhammad.

The member on Friday provided to The Associated Press a statement in English saying "the leadership of AQAP directed the operations and they have chosen their target carefully."

He says the attack was in line with warnings from the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to the West about "the consequences of the persistence in the blasphemy against Muslim sanctities"

He said the group has delayed its declaration of responsibility for "security reasons."

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d91038227f634d0cb3ee49947e13a0c1/yemeni-official-suspect-paris-attack-fought-al-qaida

[Blue_In_AK]

1. My guess is these guys would take credit

even if they had nothing at all to do with it.

[Roy Rolling]

2. Since they did it on someone's behalf...

What did Muhammad say? Isn't saying you hear from Muhammad just as bad as someone drawing Muhammad under their rules?

[Burf-_-]

3. Cue the Predator Drones in masse.

Bon Voyage Motherfuckers!!

[Jefferson23]

4. Wish I could be believe this will end well. Horrific mess. n/t

[herding cats]

5. The brothers spoke to the media and said they were sent by al Qaeda in Yemen

Before they were killed they did a phone interview making the claim. There's a link to the video in the link below the excerpt.

Terror Suspects Spoke to Media Before Death: We Were Sent by al Qaeda

Before they were both killed by police in separate raids, suspected terrorists Chérif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly spoke to BFMTV and indicated they carefully planned their “operations” and were loyal to radical Islamic networks in the Middle East.

Kouachi and his brother Said had escaped Paris after the Wednesday attack on Charlie Hebdo‘s office, leaving 12 people dead. They holed up in a Dammartin-en-Goele industrial park, taking one person hostage, until police swarmed and killed them. Coulibaly was the gunman who took several people hostage at a Kosher grocery in Paris, hours after killing a policewoman in the city. He was also killed when police raided on him.

Both men indicated their attacks were coordinated to a degree. “We were just synched for the beginning,” Coulibaly told the French news outlet. “When they started at Charlie Hebdo, I started to do the policemen,”

“I was sent by al Qaeda in Yemen,” Kouachi said in a separate interview. “It’s Anwar al-Awlaki who financed me,” he added, referring to the al-Qaeda leader killed by a U.S. drone strike in 2011. “We are the defenders of the Prophet,” he declared, likely in reference to the Hebdo cartoons that made caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammed.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/terror-suspects-spoke-to-media-before-death-we-were-sent-by-al-qaeda/

[Jefferson23]

6. snip* Catching and punishing those responsible for the Charlie Hebdo massacre is not

going to deter people who have martyrdom as a central feature of their faith. But bringing to an end, or even just de-escalating the war in Syria, would begin to drain the waters in which violent jihadism flourishes.

Such a de-escalation means the US, Britain, France and their allies accepting that they are not going to overthrow Bashar al-Assad and Assad accepting that he is not going to win back all of Syria.

There should be ceasefires between government and non-jihadi rebels. Power would be divided within Syria and, for the first time, governments in Damascus, Baghdad and Paris could unite against violent Sunni jihadism.

- Independent

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11383818