Experts: Gunmen in Paris Attack Likely Had Military Training

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“Likely they were military trained,” said security consultant Olivier Gutta. According to him the question is whether they are jihadists who have recently returned from training and combat in a Mideast war zone for either al Qaida or the rival jihadist group the self-styled Islamic State or are self-recruited assassins who had served in the French military or another national army.

According to French newspaper Le Monde, witnesses report the attackers said they were carrying out the assault on behalf of al Qaida in Yemen. But this has not been confirmed and no claim for responsibility for the shootings has been made.

“The attack appears to have been executed by hardened and well-trained fighters who may have received instructions at a training facility overseas, or locally in France,” according to Bill Roggio, managing editor of The Long War Journal, a publication of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington DC-based research organization. “The attackers may also be ex-military,” he said.
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