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发帖数: 29846 | 1 French police kill Paris massacre suspects, hostage-taking terrorist; Al
Qaeda rep says group directed magazine attack
Published January 09, 2015
A member of Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen said the group directed the massacre
at a Paris magazine, hours after near simultaneous raids by French police on
Friday killed the two Islamist brothers behind the attack and another
terrorist.
The raids, conducted at locations 25 miles apart, took out Cherif and Said
Kouachi and a suspect in a policewoman's killing who had seized hostages at
a Paris grocery on the brothers' behalf, but also left four hostages dead,
according to authorities and reports from the scene.
The Al Qaeda member on Friday provided a statement in English to The
Associated Press saying "the leadership of AQAP directed the operations and
they have chosen their target carefully."
There was no independent confirmation of the report. However, Cherif Kouachi
told a French TV station before Friday's raid at an industrial park that he
was sent by Al Qaeda in Yemen and had been financed by the cleric Anwar al-
Awlaki, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Yemen in 2011.
If confirmed, the attack would be the first time Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen
has successfully carried out an operation in the West after at least two
earlier attempts.
The Al Qaeda member said the attack was in line with warnings from the late
Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden to the West about "the consequences of the
persistence in the blasphemy against Muslim sanctities," adding that it was
"revenge for the honor" of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, which the satirical
Charlie Hebdo had occasionally lampooned.
The lightning-quick strikes earlier Friday ended two tense, hours-long
standoffs, one at a printing plant north of the city and the other at a
kosher supermarket on Paris' east side, where four hostages were killed, as
many as 15 were freed. A hostage held north of the city by the brothers, who
killed 12 in a commando-style attack at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, was
reportedly freed. The fast-moving developments, signaled by explosions and
gunfire at a printing plant in Dammartin-en-Goele, followed by similar
sounds at Hypercacher (Hyper Kosher), a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris,
brought to a climax a three-day terror ordeal and manhunt involving nearly
90,000 police and military personnel. |
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