[Peace-discuss] Jeremy Scahill on Paris Attacks, the al-Qaeda Link & the Secret U.S. War in Yemen

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Guests

 <http://www.democracynow.org/appearances/jeremy_scahill> Jeremy Scahill,
co-founder of the TheIntercept.org, where his most recent article is "Al
Qaeda Source: AQAP Directed Paris Attack." His latest book, Dirty Wars: The
World is a Battlefield, is out in paperback. His film Dirty Wars was
nominated for an Academy Award. He is also the author of the best-selling
book Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army. 

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Qaeda Source: AQAP Directed Paris Attack" by Jeremy Scahill (The Intercept)

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The gunmen who attacked Charlie Hebdo staff, Chérif and Said Kouachi, were
killed by French police on Friday following a three-day manhunt. Shortly
before his death, Chérif Kouachi told a French television station he
received financing from the late Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was
killed by a U.S. drone in Yemen in 2011. Both brothers reportedly traveled
to Yemen that same year and had weapons training in the deserts of Marib, an
al-Qaeda stronghold. Meanwhile, a video released over the weekend shows
Amedy Coulibaly ― the gunman who killed four hostages at a kosher
supermarket in Paris ― pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. In a
statement to The Intercept, a source within al-Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula (AQAP), claimed responsibility for the Charlie Hebdo attack,
saying: "The leadership of #AQAP directed the operation, and they have
chosen their target carefully as a revenge for the honor of Prophet … the
target was in France in particular because of its obvious role in the war on
Islam and oppressed nations." We speak to the reporter who broke this story,
The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill, about al-Awlaki’s background and the Paris
shooters’ claims of militant ties.

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