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Newspaper magazine is hotter than hotcakes
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Long pre-dawn queues of people were seen at many magazine kiosks across Paris including at Gare du Nord, where dozens of people lined up before 6am.
French journalist Agnès Poirier reported queues at two newsagents in a small town in Brittany where she is based. “I’ve never seen that many people queue for a newsagents to open,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“I couldn’t get a copy myself because there were too many people, but in a show of generosity the people who got their copies shared with everybody else,” she added.
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Long pre-dawn queues of people were seen at many magazine kiosks across Paris including at Gare du Nord, where dozens of people lined up before 6am.
French journalist Agnès Poirier reported queues at two newsagents in a small town in Brittany where she is based. “I’ve never seen that many people queue for a newsagents to open,” she told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
“I couldn’t get a copy myself because there were too many people, but in a show of generosity the people who got their copies shared with everybody else,” she added.
Re: is it really about freedom of speech
Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch claims responsibility for Charlie Hebdo slaughter
Yemen branch says attacks revenge for Charlie Hebdo publishing cartoons of the Prophet
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 14 January, 2015, 9:52pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 14 January, 2015, 10:19pm
Associated Press in Cairo
Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Yemen's al-Qaeda branch has claimed responsibility for the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, with a top commander saying it was revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
The claim came in a video posting by Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - or AQAP as the branch is known - via the group's Twitter account.
[video=youtube;soukze0MIEs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soukze0MIEs[/video]
In the video, Ansi said the assault on the magazine's office, which killed 12 people - including editors, cartoonists and journalists, as well as two police officers - was in "revenge for the Prophet".
He said AQAP "chose the target, laid out the plan and financed the operation" against the weekly, though he produced no evidence to support the claim.
The assault was the beginning of three days of terror in France that saw 17 people killed before the perpetrators, three Islamic extremist attackers, were gunned down by security forces.
The two brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, who carried out the Charlie Hebdo attack were "heroes," Ansi said.
"Congratulations to you, the Nation of Islam, for this revenge that has soothed our pain," he said. "Congratulations to you for these brave men who blew off the dust of disgrace and lit the torch of glory in the darkness of defeat."
Ansi accused France of belonging to the "party of Satan" and said the country "shared all of America's crimes" against Muslims - a reference to France's military offensive in Mali.
He also warned of more "tragedies and terror" in the future.
Washington considers AQAP as al-Qaeda's most dangerous offshoots. Formed in 2009 as a merger between the terror group's Yemeni and Saudi branches, AQAP has been blamed for a string of unsuccessful bomb plots against US targets.
These include a foiled plan to down a Detroit-bound airliner in 2009 using a new type of explosive hidden in the bomber's underwear, and another attempt a year later to send mail bombs hidden in toner cartridges on planes bound to the US.
The Charlie Hebdo strike is the Yemen-based branch's first successful strike outside its home territory - and a triumph for its trademark double strategy of waging jihad in Yemen to build its strength to strike abroad.
At least one of the two brothers involved in the attack on the weekly travelled to Yemen in 2011 and either received training from or fought alongside the group, authorities say.
A US intelligence assessment shows Said Kouachi, 34, was trained in preparation to return home and carry out an attack.
French police say as many as six members of the terrorist cell behind the Paris attacks may still be at large, including a man seen driving a car registered to the widow of one of the gunmen.
The country has deployed 10,000 troops to protect sites like Jewish schools, synagogues, mosques and travel hubs.
"This cell did not include just those three," said French police union official Christophe Crepin. "We think … they had accomplices, because of the weaponry, the logistics … These are heavy weapons. When I talk about things like a rocket launcher - it's not like buying a baguette on the corner. It's for targeted acts."
Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch claims responsibility for Charlie Hebdo slaughter
Yemen branch says attacks revenge for Charlie Hebdo publishing cartoons of the Prophet
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 14 January, 2015, 9:52pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 14 January, 2015, 10:19pm
Associated Press in Cairo
Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Yemen's al-Qaeda branch has claimed responsibility for the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, with a top commander saying it was revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
The claim came in a video posting by Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - or AQAP as the branch is known - via the group's Twitter account.
[video=youtube;soukze0MIEs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soukze0MIEs[/video]
In the video, Ansi said the assault on the magazine's office, which killed 12 people - including editors, cartoonists and journalists, as well as two police officers - was in "revenge for the Prophet".
He said AQAP "chose the target, laid out the plan and financed the operation" against the weekly, though he produced no evidence to support the claim.
The assault was the beginning of three days of terror in France that saw 17 people killed before the perpetrators, three Islamic extremist attackers, were gunned down by security forces.
The two brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, who carried out the Charlie Hebdo attack were "heroes," Ansi said.
"Congratulations to you, the Nation of Islam, for this revenge that has soothed our pain," he said. "Congratulations to you for these brave men who blew off the dust of disgrace and lit the torch of glory in the darkness of defeat."
Ansi accused France of belonging to the "party of Satan" and said the country "shared all of America's crimes" against Muslims - a reference to France's military offensive in Mali.
He also warned of more "tragedies and terror" in the future.
Washington considers AQAP as al-Qaeda's most dangerous offshoots. Formed in 2009 as a merger between the terror group's Yemeni and Saudi branches, AQAP has been blamed for a string of unsuccessful bomb plots against US targets.
These include a foiled plan to down a Detroit-bound airliner in 2009 using a new type of explosive hidden in the bomber's underwear, and another attempt a year later to send mail bombs hidden in toner cartridges on planes bound to the US.
The Charlie Hebdo strike is the Yemen-based branch's first successful strike outside its home territory - and a triumph for its trademark double strategy of waging jihad in Yemen to build its strength to strike abroad.
At least one of the two brothers involved in the attack on the weekly travelled to Yemen in 2011 and either received training from or fought alongside the group, authorities say.
A US intelligence assessment shows Said Kouachi, 34, was trained in preparation to return home and carry out an attack.
French police say as many as six members of the terrorist cell behind the Paris attacks may still be at large, including a man seen driving a car registered to the widow of one of the gunmen.
The country has deployed 10,000 troops to protect sites like Jewish schools, synagogues, mosques and travel hubs.
"This cell did not include just those three," said French police union official Christophe Crepin. "We think … they had accomplices, because of the weaponry, the logistics … These are heavy weapons. When I talk about things like a rocket launcher - it's not like buying a baguette on the corner. It's for targeted acts."
Re: Former pap mp maidin packer defends charlie hebdo killers
Hongkongers clamour for next issue of Charlie Hebdo
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 15 January, 2015, 2:42am
UPDATED : Thursday, 15 January, 2015, 2:42am
Danny Lee [email protected]
A man buys multiple copies of Charlie Hebdo as people queue at a newsstand in Paris. The magazine's normal print run of 60,000 has been expanded to five million. Photo: AP
Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine that was the target of a bloody terrorist attack, will go on sale in Hong Kong today as part of a special print run that has now reached five million copies.
Parenthèses bookstore on Wellington Street has been taking orders from the city's 17,000-strong French expatriate community since Tuesday after word spread that it would be stocking the magazine, which normally has a print run of just 60,000. This issue's print run has already been increased from three million.
Hong Kong will be one of the few - if not the only - places in Asia where the magazine will be on sale. The cover of the new issue features a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed holding a sign that reads "Je suis Charlie", and the headline, in French, "All is forgiven".
However, a local Muslim community leader said the sale of the magazine in the city could provoke anger.
The delivery of the French-language edition is part of a special print run in tribute to 12 people killed in the January 7 massacre when two gunmen stormed the magazine's Paris office. As of Tuesday evening, 150 orders had been placed for the edition, which has a cover price of HK$50.
The bookstore's Swiss owner, Madeline Progin, told the South China Morning Post: "Orders keep coming. Yesterday [Tuesday] morning we had about 30 orders, now we have about 150.
"We have an order for 200, but you know, maybe they cannot print so quickly, so we may receive tomorrow only half our order and the rest by the end of the week."
Progin said she was not worried for the safety of herself, the store, its staff or its customers.
"I've never felt any threat of any kind here," she explained.
Qamar Minhas, chairman of the Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong, said: "This edition will cause a new wave of hatred.
"Muslims will be hurt and upset but our reaction must be our teaching of our Prophet … enduring tolerance, patience and mercy."
Progin said the magazine used to have some subscribers in Hong Kong but the lack of distribution for such a specialist publication meant it was not possible to obtain it regularly.
"We don't sell Charlie Hebdo generally, because we don't have customers for it," she said.
"At the beginning … I contacted [the supplier] and I said I would order about 50 originally, so I think 200 is a lot.
"There are many young French people in Hong Kong I think and many people who want to support [the magazine]."
Hongkongers clamour for next issue of Charlie Hebdo
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 15 January, 2015, 2:42am
UPDATED : Thursday, 15 January, 2015, 2:42am
Danny Lee [email protected]
A man buys multiple copies of Charlie Hebdo as people queue at a newsstand in Paris. The magazine's normal print run of 60,000 has been expanded to five million. Photo: AP
Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine that was the target of a bloody terrorist attack, will go on sale in Hong Kong today as part of a special print run that has now reached five million copies.
Parenthèses bookstore on Wellington Street has been taking orders from the city's 17,000-strong French expatriate community since Tuesday after word spread that it would be stocking the magazine, which normally has a print run of just 60,000. This issue's print run has already been increased from three million.
Hong Kong will be one of the few - if not the only - places in Asia where the magazine will be on sale. The cover of the new issue features a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed holding a sign that reads "Je suis Charlie", and the headline, in French, "All is forgiven".
However, a local Muslim community leader said the sale of the magazine in the city could provoke anger.
The delivery of the French-language edition is part of a special print run in tribute to 12 people killed in the January 7 massacre when two gunmen stormed the magazine's Paris office. As of Tuesday evening, 150 orders had been placed for the edition, which has a cover price of HK$50.
The bookstore's Swiss owner, Madeline Progin, told the South China Morning Post: "Orders keep coming. Yesterday [Tuesday] morning we had about 30 orders, now we have about 150.
"We have an order for 200, but you know, maybe they cannot print so quickly, so we may receive tomorrow only half our order and the rest by the end of the week."
Progin said she was not worried for the safety of herself, the store, its staff or its customers.
"I've never felt any threat of any kind here," she explained.
Qamar Minhas, chairman of the Incorporated Trustees of the Islamic Community Fund of Hong Kong, said: "This edition will cause a new wave of hatred.
"Muslims will be hurt and upset but our reaction must be our teaching of our Prophet … enduring tolerance, patience and mercy."
Progin said the magazine used to have some subscribers in Hong Kong but the lack of distribution for such a specialist publication meant it was not possible to obtain it regularly.
"We don't sell Charlie Hebdo generally, because we don't have customers for it," she said.
"At the beginning … I contacted [the supplier] and I said I would order about 50 originally, so I think 200 is a lot.
"There are many young French people in Hong Kong I think and many people who want to support [the magazine]."
Re: Goh Meng Seng said Charlie Hebdo shooting was the work of Mossad.
Latest Charlie Hebdo issue hits newsstands, sells out in minutes
Date January 15, 2015 - 2:21AM
Nick Kirkpatrick, Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Aviva Cashmira
The latest issue of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo hit newsstands on Wednesday and sold out within minutes. Thousands of Parisians lined up to purchase the special edition featuring a depiction of the prophet Muhammad. The issue is the first since last week's attack on the paper that killed 12 people, 17 by weeks' end, in the worst terrorist attack in Paris in decades
The issue was created by the surviving staff working out of borrowed offices and now has a print run of 5 million — 83 times the usual circulation.
One newsstand in Paris sold out of the edition only five minutes after opening. Jean-Baptiste Saidi, a van driver who delivered copies early in the morning told the Associated Press: "Distributing Charlie Hebdo, it warms my heart because we say to ourselves that he is still here, he's never left."
People made reservations days in advance, lined up before dawn and even so scores were turned away as they attempted to buy the latest issue of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls could be seen walking on French television toting his copy of the magazine, but others were not so lucky.
Some stores were mobbed with crowds reminiscent of Black Friday in the United States.
"We don't have any more!" shouted the owner of a news stand opposite the Port Royal train station as dozens approached looking for the controversial magazine in the 5th Arrondissement.
Like many other newsstands he had opened early, at 6 am. He received only 30 copies. By 8:30 am he still had a few of the magazines, but they were reserved for regular customers. He sold them quietly, slipping them into bags behind the counter and allowing regular customers to leave quickly, paying later.
The first edition of Charlie Hebdo after militants attacked the French satirical newspaper sold out quickly.
For the other, he pointed to a handmade sign that said "Sorry, no more Charlie Hebdo" in French and promised "Tomorrow."
Michel Petitjean, 58, a researcher, was among those turned away at 8:30 am, for the third time, he said. He had already stopped at a newsstand that sold out at 6 am, and another that had a line of 30 people with copies reserved.
He said he wanted to buy the magazine "to support the staff of Charlie and for liberty."
"Charlie Hebdo criticises everything," he said, "That shouldn't be a death sentence."
He said buying the magazine was also a way to defend free speech all over the world not just in France.
"There are countries where they don't have freedom of expression, even today," he said as he stood in front of the newsstand.
By afternoon, 27,000 sites nationwide had sold out of the magazine, despite a run of more than 5 million, compared to the usual 60,000. A version was available online, but many said they wanted a copy of the paper and its cover cartoon showing the Prophet Mohammed crying under the headline, "All is forgiven"
Sadli Dahar, 45, a building maintenance worker, was unable to buy a copy and said he planned to read online and try again Thursday. Dahar had seen copies already on sale on ebay for 70,000 Euros ($101,233).
Dahar, who is Muslim and moved to Paris 25 years ago from Algeria, described himself as a moderate who values Charlie Hebdo as an outlet for the type of provocative speech he was not in a position to make without facing a backlash from the Muslim community which he says was "being held hostage by extremists."
"I couldn't say it but Charlie Hebdo could," he said.
He said the attacks have emboldened him and other moderate Muslims to speak out against extremism.
"They succeeded in provoking a debate, " he said of the attackers, "What they did was put this back on the table and enable the Muslim community to step up and speak out."
Martine Blanche, 55, was among the few who managed to buy a copy of the magazine Wednesday at Port Royal after reserving three days in advance.
When she approached the newsstand after 9 am, a few people were lingering, and the agent quietly asked her to pass her purse behind the counter, slipped the copy in and told her to pay later, when she picks up her lunchtime copy of Le Monde.
It was the first time that Blanche, who works at a nearby office as a project manager handling French students' financial aid, had bought the magazine.
"I bought it to support the newspaper, to say we are not afraid and we support freedom of the press," she said.
She had heard about potential protests in the Middle East in response to the magazine's cover, but said Charlie Hebdo's staff should not censure themselves. She had heard a Turkish newspaper reprinted some of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons and called them "very brave."
"Everybody should," she said. "It's a risk, but even if there are risks, we cannot give up. People say it's a fight, it's a war. We cannot abandon the freedom of the press."
At another nearby newsstand in the 6th Arrondissement, the owner had posted a common sign "Pas de Charlie," and when people stopped to ask, he promised "Tomorrow."
Andre Mardukh, 65, has run the newsstand for four years, and said he had orederd a hundred copies of the magazine Wednesday, but only received 20.
Newspaper sales here have suffered as elsewhere due to the internet, and although the neighborhood is wealthy, he said his business has suffered in recent years.
But Mardukh, who is Iranian and Kurdish, said he talks to his customers about the attacks and the broader political situation in the Middle East, that he was flooded with customers on Wednesday and expects to have more discussions in coming days.
He was not taking reservations on Wednesday, even from regular customers, and planned to open early again on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Islamic State group's radio station has described Charlie Hebdo's publication of the new cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed as an "extremely stupid" act.
"Charlie Hebdo has again published cartoons insulting the prophet and this is an extremely stupid act," said a statement read on Al-Bayan radio, which the jihadist group broadcasts in areas under its control in Syria and Iraq.
International sales
LMPI, a distributor of foreign magazines and newspapers in the United States, said the paper stopped selling Charlie Hebdo in the US because of low sales, but will resume delivery for this issue. Martin McEwen, an executive vice president at LMPI, said: "As part of the magazine's first run, we will receive 300 copies, and these will be distributed between Friday and Tuesday in New York, San Francisco and some major French magazine retailers across the US"
The Telegraph reported Smiths News and Menzies in the United Kingdom are planning to purchase up to 2000 copies to supply to stores.
In Turkey, the Cumhuriyet newspaper reported police allowed distribution of the issue as long as any religiously sensitive cartoons were removed.
The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, AP
Latest Charlie Hebdo issue hits newsstands, sells out in minutes
Date January 15, 2015 - 2:21AM
Nick Kirkpatrick, Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Aviva Cashmira
The latest issue of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo hit newsstands on Wednesday and sold out within minutes. Thousands of Parisians lined up to purchase the special edition featuring a depiction of the prophet Muhammad. The issue is the first since last week's attack on the paper that killed 12 people, 17 by weeks' end, in the worst terrorist attack in Paris in decades
The issue was created by the surviving staff working out of borrowed offices and now has a print run of 5 million — 83 times the usual circulation.
One newsstand in Paris sold out of the edition only five minutes after opening. Jean-Baptiste Saidi, a van driver who delivered copies early in the morning told the Associated Press: "Distributing Charlie Hebdo, it warms my heart because we say to ourselves that he is still here, he's never left."
People made reservations days in advance, lined up before dawn and even so scores were turned away as they attempted to buy the latest issue of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls could be seen walking on French television toting his copy of the magazine, but others were not so lucky.
Some stores were mobbed with crowds reminiscent of Black Friday in the United States.
"We don't have any more!" shouted the owner of a news stand opposite the Port Royal train station as dozens approached looking for the controversial magazine in the 5th Arrondissement.
Like many other newsstands he had opened early, at 6 am. He received only 30 copies. By 8:30 am he still had a few of the magazines, but they were reserved for regular customers. He sold them quietly, slipping them into bags behind the counter and allowing regular customers to leave quickly, paying later.
The first edition of Charlie Hebdo after militants attacked the French satirical newspaper sold out quickly.
For the other, he pointed to a handmade sign that said "Sorry, no more Charlie Hebdo" in French and promised "Tomorrow."
Michel Petitjean, 58, a researcher, was among those turned away at 8:30 am, for the third time, he said. He had already stopped at a newsstand that sold out at 6 am, and another that had a line of 30 people with copies reserved.
He said he wanted to buy the magazine "to support the staff of Charlie and for liberty."
"Charlie Hebdo criticises everything," he said, "That shouldn't be a death sentence."
He said buying the magazine was also a way to defend free speech all over the world not just in France.
"There are countries where they don't have freedom of expression, even today," he said as he stood in front of the newsstand.
By afternoon, 27,000 sites nationwide had sold out of the magazine, despite a run of more than 5 million, compared to the usual 60,000. A version was available online, but many said they wanted a copy of the paper and its cover cartoon showing the Prophet Mohammed crying under the headline, "All is forgiven"
Sadli Dahar, 45, a building maintenance worker, was unable to buy a copy and said he planned to read online and try again Thursday. Dahar had seen copies already on sale on ebay for 70,000 Euros ($101,233).
Dahar, who is Muslim and moved to Paris 25 years ago from Algeria, described himself as a moderate who values Charlie Hebdo as an outlet for the type of provocative speech he was not in a position to make without facing a backlash from the Muslim community which he says was "being held hostage by extremists."
"I couldn't say it but Charlie Hebdo could," he said.
He said the attacks have emboldened him and other moderate Muslims to speak out against extremism.
"They succeeded in provoking a debate, " he said of the attackers, "What they did was put this back on the table and enable the Muslim community to step up and speak out."
Martine Blanche, 55, was among the few who managed to buy a copy of the magazine Wednesday at Port Royal after reserving three days in advance.
When she approached the newsstand after 9 am, a few people were lingering, and the agent quietly asked her to pass her purse behind the counter, slipped the copy in and told her to pay later, when she picks up her lunchtime copy of Le Monde.
It was the first time that Blanche, who works at a nearby office as a project manager handling French students' financial aid, had bought the magazine.
"I bought it to support the newspaper, to say we are not afraid and we support freedom of the press," she said.
She had heard about potential protests in the Middle East in response to the magazine's cover, but said Charlie Hebdo's staff should not censure themselves. She had heard a Turkish newspaper reprinted some of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons and called them "very brave."
"Everybody should," she said. "It's a risk, but even if there are risks, we cannot give up. People say it's a fight, it's a war. We cannot abandon the freedom of the press."
At another nearby newsstand in the 6th Arrondissement, the owner had posted a common sign "Pas de Charlie," and when people stopped to ask, he promised "Tomorrow."
Andre Mardukh, 65, has run the newsstand for four years, and said he had orederd a hundred copies of the magazine Wednesday, but only received 20.
Newspaper sales here have suffered as elsewhere due to the internet, and although the neighborhood is wealthy, he said his business has suffered in recent years.
But Mardukh, who is Iranian and Kurdish, said he talks to his customers about the attacks and the broader political situation in the Middle East, that he was flooded with customers on Wednesday and expects to have more discussions in coming days.
He was not taking reservations on Wednesday, even from regular customers, and planned to open early again on Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Islamic State group's radio station has described Charlie Hebdo's publication of the new cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed as an "extremely stupid" act.
"Charlie Hebdo has again published cartoons insulting the prophet and this is an extremely stupid act," said a statement read on Al-Bayan radio, which the jihadist group broadcasts in areas under its control in Syria and Iraq.
International sales
LMPI, a distributor of foreign magazines and newspapers in the United States, said the paper stopped selling Charlie Hebdo in the US because of low sales, but will resume delivery for this issue. Martin McEwen, an executive vice president at LMPI, said: "As part of the magazine's first run, we will receive 300 copies, and these will be distributed between Friday and Tuesday in New York, San Francisco and some major French magazine retailers across the US"
The Telegraph reported Smiths News and Menzies in the United Kingdom are planning to purchase up to 2000 copies to supply to stores.
In Turkey, the Cumhuriyet newspaper reported police allowed distribution of the issue as long as any religiously sensitive cartoons were removed.
The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, AP
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Re: is it really about freedom of speech
What a fucking Islamic moron!! More people are queuing up to buy Charlie Hebdo and getting aware of it..slowly the whole world will be buying that magazine. and the whole world will be making fun of your fucking mohammad. Islam is meant to be ridiculed and not meant to be respected, get the hard truth , you bunch of Islamic shit, go eat pork!!!
Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch claims responsibility for Charlie Hebdo slaughter
Yemen branch says attacks revenge for Charlie Hebdo publishing cartoons of the Prophet
PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 14 January, 2015, 9:52pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 14 January, 2015, 10:19pm
Associated Press in Cairo
Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Photo: SCMP Pictures
Yemen's al-Qaeda branch has claimed responsibility for the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, with a top commander saying it was revenge for the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
The claim came in a video posting by Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - or AQAP as the branch is known - via the group's Twitter account.
[video=youtube;soukze0MIEs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soukze0MIEs[/video]
In the video, Ansi said the assault on the magazine's office, which killed 12 people - including editors, cartoonists and journalists, as well as two police officers - was in "revenge for the Prophet".
He said AQAP "chose the target, laid out the plan and financed the operation" against the weekly, though he produced no evidence to support the claim.
The assault was the beginning of three days of terror in France that saw 17 people killed before the perpetrators, three Islamic extremist attackers, were gunned down by security forces.
The two brothers, Said and Cherif Kouachi, who carried out the Charlie Hebdo attack were "heroes," Ansi said.
"Congratulations to you, the Nation of Islam, for this revenge that has soothed our pain," he said. "Congratulations to you for these brave men who blew off the dust of disgrace and lit the torch of glory in the darkness of defeat."
Ansi accused France of belonging to the "party of Satan" and said the country "shared all of America's crimes" against Muslims - a reference to France's military offensive in Mali.
He also warned of more "tragedies and terror" in the future.
Washington considers AQAP as al-Qaeda's most dangerous offshoots. Formed in 2009 as a merger between the terror group's Yemeni and Saudi branches, AQAP has been blamed for a string of unsuccessful bomb plots against US targets.
These include a foiled plan to down a Detroit-bound airliner in 2009 using a new type of explosive hidden in the bomber's underwear, and another attempt a year later to send mail bombs hidden in toner cartridges on planes bound to the US.
The Charlie Hebdo strike is the Yemen-based branch's first successful strike outside its home territory - and a triumph for its trademark double strategy of waging jihad in Yemen to build its strength to strike abroad.
At least one of the two brothers involved in the attack on the weekly travelled to Yemen in 2011 and either received training from or fought alongside the group, authorities say.
A US intelligence assessment shows Said Kouachi, 34, was trained in preparation to return home and carry out an attack.
French police say as many as six members of the terrorist cell behind the Paris attacks may still be at large, including a man seen driving a car registered to the widow of one of the gunmen.
The country has deployed 10,000 troops to protect sites like Jewish schools, synagogues, mosques and travel hubs.
"This cell did not include just those three," said French police union official Christophe Crepin. "We think … they had accomplices, because of the weaponry, the logistics … These are heavy weapons. When I talk about things like a rocket launcher - it's not like buying a baguette on the corner. It's for targeted acts."
What a fucking Islamic moron!! More people are queuing up to buy Charlie Hebdo and getting aware of it..slowly the whole world will be buying that magazine. and the whole world will be making fun of your fucking mohammad. Islam is meant to be ridiculed and not meant to be respected, get the hard truth , you bunch of Islamic shit, go eat pork!!!
Charlie Hebdo Online: http://www.scribd.com/doc/252607212/Charlie-Hebdo-1178-January-14-2015
Re: Charlie Hebdo Shootings - Censored Video
Afghan Taliban hail deadly Paris attacks, say Charlie Hedbo cartoons ‘repugnant’
Militants release statement lauding Charlie Hebdo attackers for 'bringing the perpetrators of the obscene act to justice' and denouncing magazine's new cartoons of Prophet
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 15 January, 2015, 2:37pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 15 January, 2015, 6:28pm
Agence France-Presse in Kabul
French commuters queue to buy the new edition of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at Gare de Lyon train station in Paris on Wednesday. Photo: EPA
The Afghan Taliban on Thursday condemned the publication in France of further cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, and lauded last week’s deadly Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris.
An English language statement from the group said they “strongly condemn this repugnant and inhumane action and consider its perpetrators, those who allowed it and its supporters [to be] the enemies of humanity”.
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It added the gunmen who killed the magazine’s staff on January 7 were “bringing the perpetrators of the obscene act to justice”.
On Wednesday, French President Francois Hollande declared Charlie Hebdo was “alive and will live on” after its new edition sold out in record time, as al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack.
In the magazine’s latest edition, the prophet was depicted with a tear in his eye, under the headline “All is forgiven”, and holding a sign reading “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie).
The Afghan Taliban, which ran a hardline Islamic government in the east Asian country from 1996-2001, said world leaders should prevent such cartoons from being released.
They said publication must be stopped to prevent “further harming world peace”, adding that to do otherwise would mean “the beliefs and sacrosanctity of over a billion people is desecrated and the world is pushed further into the fire of hatred and war”.
A few hundred people demonstrated last week in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan, praising the gunmen and criticising President Ashraf Ghani’s condemnation of the attack in Paris.
Previous insults to Islam have sparked violent protests in the ultra-conservative Muslim nation.
Afghan Taliban hail deadly Paris attacks, say Charlie Hedbo cartoons ‘repugnant’
Militants release statement lauding Charlie Hebdo attackers for 'bringing the perpetrators of the obscene act to justice' and denouncing magazine's new cartoons of Prophet
PUBLISHED : Thursday, 15 January, 2015, 2:37pm
UPDATED : Thursday, 15 January, 2015, 6:28pm
Agence France-Presse in Kabul
French commuters queue to buy the new edition of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at Gare de Lyon train station in Paris on Wednesday. Photo: EPA
The Afghan Taliban on Thursday condemned the publication in France of further cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, and lauded last week’s deadly Islamist attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris.
An English language statement from the group said they “strongly condemn this repugnant and inhumane action and consider its perpetrators, those who allowed it and its supporters [to be] the enemies of humanity”.
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It added the gunmen who killed the magazine’s staff on January 7 were “bringing the perpetrators of the obscene act to justice”.
On Wednesday, French President Francois Hollande declared Charlie Hebdo was “alive and will live on” after its new edition sold out in record time, as al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack.
In the magazine’s latest edition, the prophet was depicted with a tear in his eye, under the headline “All is forgiven”, and holding a sign reading “Je suis Charlie” (I am Charlie).
The Afghan Taliban, which ran a hardline Islamic government in the east Asian country from 1996-2001, said world leaders should prevent such cartoons from being released.
They said publication must be stopped to prevent “further harming world peace”, adding that to do otherwise would mean “the beliefs and sacrosanctity of over a billion people is desecrated and the world is pushed further into the fire of hatred and war”.
A few hundred people demonstrated last week in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan, praising the gunmen and criticising President Ashraf Ghani’s condemnation of the attack in Paris.
Previous insults to Islam have sparked violent protests in the ultra-conservative Muslim nation.
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Message to offended Muslims.
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Message to offended Muslims.
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French Muslims smart at honouring of Charlie Hebdo - teens argue cartoons feed discrimination
Date January 15, 2015 - 5:05PM
Solidarity move: Up to 4 million people marched in solidarity in France after the Charlie Hebdo attack. Photo: Getty Images
Gennevilliers: Rather than fall quiet as requested during a national minute of silence last week, three boys in Hamid Abdelaali's high school class in this heavily Muslim suburb of Paris staged an informal protest, speaking loudly through all 60 seconds.
Across France, they were not alone. In one school in Normandy, some Muslim students yelled "God is Great!" in Arabic during that same moment. In a Paris middle school, another group of young Muslims politely asked not to respect the minute, arguing to their teacher, "You reap what you sow."
Abdelaali, a 17-year-old high school senior who did observe the quiet minute, said he did so only because he was outraged by the killings in the name of his religion that were carried out at Charlie Hebdo - the satirical French newspaper attacked by Islamist extremists. But he also said he feels disgusted by a newspaper whose provocative cartoons had used the image of the prophet Muhammad for satire - and which continued to do so in its tragicomic first edition that hit news stands on Wednesday morning.
Muslim area: A street market near the Cite des Bosquets, a housing complex largely populated by Muslims in Clichy-sous-Bois, an impoverished suburb of Paris. Photo: New York Times
"I know some kids who agreed with the attack," he said. "I did not, but I also cannot say that I support what Charlie Hebdo is doing."
Within France's Muslim community of some 5 million - the largest in Europe - many are viewing the tragedy in starkly different terms from their non-Muslim compatriots. They feel deeply torn by the now viral slogan, "I am Charlie", arguing that no, they are not Charlie at all.
Many of France's Muslims - like Abdelaali - abhor the violence that struck the country last week. But they are also revolted by the notion that they should defend the newspaper. By putting the publication on a pedestal, they insist, the French are once again sidelining the Muslim community, feeding into a general sense of discrimination which, they argue, helped create the conditions for radicalisation in the first place.
Troop support: A French soldier patrols near a Jewish school in Paris. Photo: AFP
Unemployment and poverty remain far higher among France's Muslims than in the nation overall. Joblessness and poverty are particularly high in heavily Muslim Paris suburbs such as Gennevilliers, an area of sprawling, dense apartment blocks where at least one of the gunmen - Cherif Kouachi, 32 - lived. On the streets here, Charlie Hebdo remains something different, a symbol of what some, such as Mohamed Binakdan, 32, describe as the everyday humiliation of Muslims in France.
"You go to a nightclub and they don't let you in," said Binakdan, a transit worker in Paris. "You go to a party, they look at your beard, and say, 'Oh, when are you going to Syria to join the jihad?' Charlie Hebdo is a part of that, too. Those who are stronger than us are mocking us. We have high unemployment, high poverty. Religion is all we have left. This is sacred to us. And yes, we have a hard time laughing about it."
There were also sharp differences on Tuesday about the cover of Charlie Hebdo in its first edition since last Wednesday's attack, which leaked late on Monday. In it, Muhammad sheds a tear and holds one of the now omnipresent signs saying "Je Suis Charlie" under a headline reading "All is Forgiven".
Mourning: The funeral of murdered police officer Ahmed Merabet in Bobigny, France. Photo: Getty Images
"I wasn't shocked by this cartoon, it's not as obscene as others might have been," said Binakdan. "It was rather well done, way softer than what was published previously. At least they are not showing the prophet making love with a goat."
Others in the Muslim community were less impressed. "My first reaction was angst, this does nothing to make things better," said Nasser Lajili, 32, a Muslim city councillor and youth group leader in Gennevilliers. "I want to make clear that I completely condemn the attack on Charlie Hebdo. But I think freedom of speech needs to stop when it harms the dignity of someone else. The prophet for us is sacred."
Some insisted there is a double standard in freedom of speech and expression here that is bias against Islam. They cite the 2010 so-called burqa ban in France that forbade "concealment of the face" in public, and which Muslim critics say was clearly aimed at devout Islamic women. They also point to the 2008 firing of a Charlie Hebdo cartoonist - Maurice Sinet, known as Sine - after he declined to apologise for a column that some viewed as anti-Semitic. Such action was not taken, Muslim groups note, after their protests over the paper's Muhammad cartoons.
Almost 4 million people across France turned out on Sunday in support of free speech. Yet, on Monday, for instance, a 31-year-old Tunisian-born man was sentenced to 10 months' jail after verbally threatening police and saying an officer shot in last week's attack "deserved it". Also on Monday, a Paris prosecutor opened an investigation against an anti-Semitic French comedian, Dieudonne M'bala M'bala, for a post on his Facebook page calling himself "Charlie Coulibaly" - a reference to Amedy Coulibaly, the gunmen who killed four people Friday inside a Paris kosher market.
The comedian - whose comedy show, which featured an explicit skit mocking the Holocaust, was banned last year for inciting hate - suggested that he was a victim of a double standard.
"My only goal is to make people laugh, and to laugh at death, since death makes fun of us all, as Charlie very well knows," he wrote in a second Facebook post. He concluded by saying, "They consider me to be Amedy Coulibaly when I am no different from a Charlie."
French Muslim officials are decrying an unprecedented wave of anti-Islamic incidents - at least 54 since last Wednesday, including arson attacks on mosques. Yet, some argue, French troops meant to ensure safety on French streets have been disproportionately deployed, putting emphasis on protecting Jewish synagogues and schools.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls sought to calm fears in the Muslim community, saying that "to attack a mosque, a church or a place of worship, to desecrate a cemetery, is an offence to our values. Islam is the second religion of France. It all has its place in France".
Over the past few days, these societal divisions, in increasingly stark terms, have confronted the French. Virginie Artaud, a 44-year-old art teacher in the Paris suburbs, said her predominantly Muslim class of high school-aged students initially balked on Friday when she proposed that they design posters and banners to be displayed at Sunday's unity march against terrorism.
The world, her students told her, hardly takes notice when Palestinian or Syrian children are killed. Why all the attention for a humour magazine that openly mocks Islam's prophet?
"I let them all express themselves, even though they were saying the worst things they had to say," she said. "Everyone listened to each other, and at the end, they decided to make peaceful banners."
But, she said, she was unsure whether any had attended the historic march. Artaud herself had a banner: a shiny silver placard she held aloft Sunday reading "All United, All Charlie" along with blue face paint spelling out the words "Freedom is non-negotiable".
Washington Post
Pakistan Charlie Hebdo protests turn violent as journalist shot
AFP photographer "in serious condition" after shots fired at protests in Karachi against French satirical magazine's depiction of Prophet Mohammed
Thousands of religious party activists are expected to turn out across the country to protest against Charlie Hebdo magazine Photo: EPA/SAOOD REHMAN
By Andrew Marszal, and agencies
11:41AM GMT 16 Jan 2015
Clashes between police and protesters demonstrating against Charlie Hebdo magazine's latest "Prophet Mohammed" cover turned violent in Pakistan on Friday, as an AFP photographer was shot in the port city of Karachi.
Protests have been building in the Muslim country since the French satirical magazine revealed it would feature a depiction of the prophet on the front cover of its "survivor edition", published on Wednesday in response to the Islamist terrorist attack on its Paris headquarters.
"AFP photographer Asif Hasan suffered wounds resulting from gunshots fired by ... protesters, police have not opened fire," Abdul Khalique Shaikh, a senior police officer in southern Karachi, told Reuters.
The journalist was initially said to be in "serious condition", but appeared to be out of danger following surgery.
"The bullet struck his lung, and passed through his chest. He is out of immediate danger and he has spoken to his colleagues," Doctor Seemi Jamali, a spokeswoman for Karachi's Jinnah Hospital where Hassan was taken, told AFP.
A Reuters photographer at the scene said that many protesters appeared to be armed.
Television footage showed police using tear gas and water cannons against protesters outside the French consulate in Karachi.
At least one other person has been injured.
The rallies come a day after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif led parliament in condemning the cartoons, regarded by many Muslims as offensive, in Charlie Hebdo, whose offices were attacked last week leaving 12 people dead.
Thousands of religious party activists are expected to turn out nationwide, including followers of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charitable wing of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group which masterminded attacks on Mumbai in 2008.
The Jamat-ul-Ahrar faction of the Pakistani Taliban meanwhile issued a statement lauding the two brothers who carried out the Charlie Hebdo assault, saying "they freed the earth from the existence of filthy blasphemers".
"O enemies of Islam beware! Every youth of this Ummah (Muslim community) is willing to sacrifice himself on the honour of (the) Prophet," said the statement, which was sent via email by spokesman Ehsanullan Ehsan.
Protesters in the northwest city of Peshawar and central Multan have burnt French flags on the streets.
Rallies are also being carried out in the capital Islamabad and the eastern city of Lahore.
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Terrorist's body to be buried in Paris suburb, official says
Date January 18, 2015 - 4:42AM
Cherif Kouachi's body will be buried in a Paris suburb where he lived before the attack, according to officials. Photo: Getty Images
PARIS - Cherif Kouachi, one of the terrorists who killed 12 people at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo last week, will be buried in Gennevilliers, a suburb of Paris where he lived before the attack, city officials said on Saturday.
Kouachi and his brother Said were killed in a police assault on January 9 after seizing a printing plant in the northern city of Dammartin-en-Goele, following the attack on Charlie Hebdo.
According to a city official from Gennevilliers, Kouachi will be buried in the plot designated for Muslims at the cemetery there at the request of his wife, Izzana Hamyd.
"He was living here," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak publicly about the issue.
"Even if it doesn't please us, we respect French law." The official didn't say when Kouachi would be buried.
Under French law, families who have lost a relative have between 24 hours and six days to bury their dead.
If handling of the body is not specified in a will, they are expected to make an official request for burial to the mayor of the city where the person lived or died. They can also have them buried at a family plot in a graveyard or on their ancestral land.
As police investigators continued to search for potential accomplices of the three terrorists who killed 17 people in the attacks, the fate of the bodies of the other terrorists remained unknown.
Amedy Coulibaly and Kouachi's brother Said were thought to be in a police morgue in Paris, and the Paris prosecutor, who is in charge of the counterterrorism investigation, has not made an official request to bury them.
But on Thursday, several French mayors said they would refuse to let terrorists be buried in their cities, fearing that the graves could become places of pilgrimage for other extremists or spur a violent backlash.
Arnaud Robinet, the mayor of Reims, where Kouachi had settled several years ago, said he would refuse "categorically" to bury him.
"I don't want a grave in Reims to become a place of prayer and contemplation for some fanatics," Robinet said.
Terrorist's body to be buried in Paris suburb, official says
Date January 18, 2015 - 4:42AM
Cherif Kouachi's body will be buried in a Paris suburb where he lived before the attack, according to officials. Photo: Getty Images
PARIS - Cherif Kouachi, one of the terrorists who killed 12 people at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo last week, will be buried in Gennevilliers, a suburb of Paris where he lived before the attack, city officials said on Saturday.
Kouachi and his brother Said were killed in a police assault on January 9 after seizing a printing plant in the northern city of Dammartin-en-Goele, following the attack on Charlie Hebdo.
According to a city official from Gennevilliers, Kouachi will be buried in the plot designated for Muslims at the cemetery there at the request of his wife, Izzana Hamyd.
"He was living here," said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak publicly about the issue.
"Even if it doesn't please us, we respect French law." The official didn't say when Kouachi would be buried.
Under French law, families who have lost a relative have between 24 hours and six days to bury their dead.
If handling of the body is not specified in a will, they are expected to make an official request for burial to the mayor of the city where the person lived or died. They can also have them buried at a family plot in a graveyard or on their ancestral land.
As police investigators continued to search for potential accomplices of the three terrorists who killed 17 people in the attacks, the fate of the bodies of the other terrorists remained unknown.
Amedy Coulibaly and Kouachi's brother Said were thought to be in a police morgue in Paris, and the Paris prosecutor, who is in charge of the counterterrorism investigation, has not made an official request to bury them.
But on Thursday, several French mayors said they would refuse to let terrorists be buried in their cities, fearing that the graves could become places of pilgrimage for other extremists or spur a violent backlash.
Arnaud Robinet, the mayor of Reims, where Kouachi had settled several years ago, said he would refuse "categorically" to bury him.
"I don't want a grave in Reims to become a place of prayer and contemplation for some fanatics," Robinet said.
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