https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/25996949/al-qaeda-claims-french-attack-derides-paris-rally/?cmp=ydn

"Al Qaeda in Yemen has claimed responsibility for the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, saying it was ordered by the Islamist militant group's leadership for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, according to a video posted on YouTube.

Gunmen killed a total of 17 people in three days of violence that began when they opened fire at staff in Charlie Hebdo's offices last week in revenge for publication of satirical images of the Prophet.

One Western source said no hard evidence of a direct operational link to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) had yet been found.

But this was the first time that a group officially claimed responsibility for the attack, led by two French-born brothers of Algerian extraction, Cherif and Said Kouachi, who had visited the poor Arabian peninsula country in 2011.

Authorities in France hunting possible accomplices say they are on alert for further attacks.

"As for the blessed Battle of Paris, we... claim responsibility for this operation as vengeance for the Messenger of God," said Nasser bin Ali al-Ansi, an AQAP ideologue, in the recording.

Ansi said the "one who chose the target, laid the plan and financed the operation is the leadership of the organisation", without naming an individual.

He added without elaborating that the strike was carried out in "implementation" of the order of overall al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, who has called for strikes by Muslims in the West using any means they can find.

Ansi also gave credit for the operation to slain AQAP propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki, a preacher cited by one of the gunmen in remarks to French media as a financier of the attack.

It was not clear how Awlaki, killed by a U.S. drone in 2011, had a direct link to the Paris assault, but he inspired several militants in the United States and Britain to acts of violence."

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I am not sure how they know that Mo was offended... He is dead after all.

I have no personal cause to offend Mo either to be honest, I neither know him on a personal level, nor do I choose to believe all (hmm, perhaps any) of what is accredited to him.

I do however, have no problem what so ever ridiculing a bunch of cowards like AQ, particularly when they come out claiming credit for an atrocity like this one.

Herein lieth the problem as I see it. Those deeply offended by the actions of terrorists seem to consistently go down the path of attacking the entire faith. Now, we have seen right here how that goes, for example, if one attacks all of Christianity because of some Catholic Priests who took advantage of their position to abuse children and the subsequent cover ups.... Certainly is a problem for the Catholic Church, however, it in no way tars ALL Christians.

Post, scream, draw or write your ridicule of the faceless cowards who hide behind ANY faith who either commit, sponsor or order barbarous acts of violence against others. I don't say "innocents" because I have this idea that our species kind of lost any innocence it may have once had centuries (or longer) ago...