Qaeda Group in Yemen Claims Responsibility for Charlie Hebdo Attack

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Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said one remaining unknown was whether one or both of the brothers had contact with Al Qaeda or other militant groups since 2011.

“In this case both the Kouachis and A.Q.A.P. insist that A.Q.A.P. financed this operation, trained the brothers for it and formulated the target,” he said, using the acronym for Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. “Rather than being suggestive of a sleeper cell that sat and waited for three years, some subsequent contact seems likeliest although at this point not definitely proven.”
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