Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed the Jan. 7 attack by Cherif and Said Kaouchi on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and said an attack by Amedy Coulibaly the same day on a Jewish market in Paris “coincided” with the AQAP attack. The print run for the “survivor” issue of Charlie Hebdo was expanded after three million copies sold out. Prime Minister Valls said yesterday that blasphemy will never feature in the laws of France. Since last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris, the Justice Ministry has opened 37 cases involving support for terrorism and 12 for threatened terrorist acts. The Parliament has approved continuing the French airstrikes in Iraq against the Islamic State, and a French aircraft carrier will be deployed to the Gulf to support the US-led mission against the terrorist group.
