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Al-Qaeda threatens Charlie Hebdo for republishing Mohammed cartoons: Report
AFP
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Representative image. Credit: iStockPhoto
Representative image. Credit: iStockPhoto

Al-Qaeda has threatened French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo with a repeat of a 2015 massacre of its staff after it republished controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the SITE observatory said on Friday.

Al-Qaeda in its publication One Ummah had warned that Charlie Hebdo would be mistaken it believed the 2015 attack was a "one-off" after the magazine printed the "contemptible caricatures" in a defiant issue that marked the start of the trial in Paris of suspected accomplices in the attack.

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(Published 11 September 2020, 23:32 IST)