Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday that last Wednesday’s attack on a French satirical magazine was committed by militants who had fought in Syria for the West-backed aim of ousting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power.<\/p>\n
\u201cCooperation [with the West on counter-terrorism] has been suspended. Meanwhile, terrorists do not suspend cooperation with each other. Terrorist activity knows no bounds,\u201d Lavrov said. \u201cThe two brothers who attacked the editorial office of the Paris magazine had mastered \u2018the art of terror\u2019 in Syria, fighting with those who had been trying to oust Bashar al-Assad – an aim supported by our Western counterparts,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Seventeen people were killed in the French capital and its neighbourhoods in the terrorist attacks last week. Among them were ten journalists from the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine, three policemen and four visitors of a kosher grocery store.<\/p>\n
A video of supposedly Amedy Coulibaly, who murdered the\u00a0five people, has emerged online. He swears his allegiance to the Islamic State in the clip and attempts to justify the wave of terror attacks.<\/p>\n
The man much resembling Coulibaly talks of being a \u201csoldier of the Caliphate\u201d and states that he coordinated his plans with the brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, who perpetrated a bloody massacre at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The man asserted that \u2018France is a legitimate target.\u2019 He is referred to as Abo\u00fc Bassir AbdAllah al-Ifriqip and wears military body armor, displays an array of weapons and does push-ups.<\/p>\n
He pledges his allegiance to \u201cCaliph Ibrahim\u201d, also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed leader of the Islamic State and speaks about the attack on the policewoman in the past tense, suggesting the attack had already been completed.<\/p>\n
In the background of the video, radio news is already documenting the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices.<\/p>\n
All the jihadists belonged to the same terrorist cell, according to French police. The man in the video discusses how they coordinated with one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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