DUBAI: The responsibility for the audacious attack on fresh satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo was claimed by Al Qaeda in Yemen in a video posted online.
The outfit said that it was “vengeance” for the French weekly’s blasphemous cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).
“We, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, claim responsibility for this operation as vengeance for the messenger of Allah,” one of the group’s leaders, Nasser al-Ansi, said in the video titled: “A message regarding the blessed battle of Paris.”
Ansi said Charlie Hebdo attack was ordered by Al Qaeda chief Ayman Zawahiri.
“The leadership of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was the party that chose the target and plotted and financed the plan… It was following orders by our general chief Ayman al-Zawahiri,” he said.
“The heroes were chosen and they answered the call,” he said.
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