Yemen-based faction al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) today released a video claiming credit for last week’s attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 people dead.
The video showed top AQAP figure Nasr Ansi declaring the target as specifically chosen and financed by the group as revenge for the magazine’s portrayals of the prophet Mohammed.
The Kouachi brothers both trained in Yemen, and one of them claimed AQAP support when they carried out the attack, so the video just confirms what was largely already known.
Questions about whether AQAP was responsible were fueled primarily by the secondary attacker, at the Paris kosher grocery store, claiming he was affiliated with ISIS. That still might be the case, but it seems that the initial attackers were almost certainly indeed linked to the Yemeni group.
Kinda late, no?
What a stupidity, but it works in now completely dumbed down world. Yemen "Al-Qaeda" is a Saudi outfit run by a Saudi intelligence operative. Anyone in Yemen that organized against it, got smacked down by a drone, as "Al-Qaeda". Today, Saudis are in a deep trouble in Yemen, as they lost control of the situation. There is a DANGER THAT THE PEACE MAY BREAK OUT, and put Al-Qaeda out of business! That would be a tragedy! And also, geopolitically looking, an outcome will be two states that will not be so easy to manipulate, and that is on what brainy geopolitical buttheads consider "important" passage, Bab-al-Mandeb.
It is very simple. North Yemen, once an independent country, would become what it was — a Shia ruled land, while South, once independent Sunni state, would regain its independence. They have agreed to it — and the only obstacle is Saudi Arabia and US. Saudi Al-Qaeda has been surrounded into few little towns, and will easily lose against two strong entities. Here comes West to the rescue!
Why not shout from the rooftops that the phony Al-Qaeda is responsible for Paris attack — and voila! Drones will descent on the enemies of Al-Qaeda, giving Saudi outfit means to claw out of its confinement, and be AGAIN able to terrorize population at will. Now, all they have is bombing attacks they organize through their operatives and the stash of explosives hidden around the country.
There is the solution — stop funding terrorism, JUST STOP IT. The Paris duo was in Syria, where they were the celebrated heroes of France and the rest of the West. They had their airline tickets paid for, their pocket money, directions to their units, then weapons, training, clothing, food, vehicles, gas, telecom. Those that save their pay, and have money to come back, come to live in the shadows, half-world of being watched. As if that will stop radicalized individuals that have learned how to kill without mercy even newborn babies — to do what they have been trained for.
Another barbarians group supported by an modernized and fashionable kingdome regime created by an fake democracy when they started Neo world order presented by Bush regime.
It’s a nice narrative, believable ? notsomuch