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January 15, 2015       Share:    

Source: http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/markaz/posts/2015/01/10-paris-attacks-yemen-al-qaeda-terror-charlie-hebdo

Paris Attacks Underscore Deep Threat Still Posed by Al-Qaeda

(Brookings) Bruce Riedel - Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula took credit for last week's attacks in France. The AQAP's religious authority, Harith Al Nazari, hailed the attack on the French cartoonists as a religious duty and promised more attacks against French, British and American targets. Nazari has denounced the self-proclaimed Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and his caliphate as illegitimate. The Paris attacks serve to burnish al-Qaeda's claims to be the legitimate leadership of the global jihad and the true heirs of Osama bin Laden.

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