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January 9, 2015 9:00 pm - NewsBehavingBadly.com

An al Qaeda Yemen member says the group is responsible for the Charlie Hebdo killings as “revenge for the honor” of Prophet Muhammad.

AP and The Intercept quoted a statement sent to them by a source within Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), commonly referred to as Al-Qaeda in Yemen.

The statement, provided on condition of anonymity, says “the leadership of AQAP directed the operations and they have chosen their target carefully as a revenge for the honor of Prophet [Muhammad].” It directly refers to the Wednesday attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which resulted in 12 people killed.

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D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

138 responses to Yemen al Qaeda Claim Responsibility Claiming ‘Revenge’

  1. tracey marie January 9th, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    Why are the religous extremists so afraid of secular humor and satire about their gods and prophets…aren’t those dieties and the sycophants capable of taking a hit, I thought they are divine and special

    • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 3:51 am

      Muslims have been under attack by Western Imperialism. The cartoonist knew that Sharia requires death for insults to the Profit. They brought this on themselves.

      • Carla Akins January 10th, 2015 at 5:13 am

        Uh, no.

        • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 10:08 am

          No to what?

      • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 8:58 am

        Right…and they are waiting for their 72 virgins… Did you ever wonder how a culture could have given so much modern thought to the world could retreat to stone age thinking.???

        • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 10:03 am

          Please don’t insult Islam and encourage the rightwing call for violent retribution.

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 10:24 am

            I don’t have to do a thing…they are doing it all by themselves

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 12:23 pm

            You express a disdain for Islam, you are part the problem. There will be no peace with people like you.

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 12:30 pm

            I have a disdain for ALL religions…they are about $$$ and power..

          • Bunya January 11th, 2015 at 7:51 pm

            I agree. Sadly, all religions are about money and power. Well maybe except for the Buddhists. They take a vow of poverty and aren’t in the business of recruiting new members.

          • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 8:15 pm

            “Of all the moral precepts instilled in Buddhist monks the promise not to kill comes first, and the principle of non-violence is arguably more central to Buddhism than any other major religion. So why have monks been using hate speech against Muslims and joining mobs that have left dozens dead?”
            http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22356306

          • Bunya January 12th, 2015 at 10:38 am

            I’m afraid the Buddhist monks have fallen into the Christian/Jewish habit of trashing Muslims. This is disheartening because I thought they’d be the last bastion of sanity.

          • Apocalypse January 12th, 2015 at 12:56 pm

            It is sad, I was shocked when I learned about it.

          • trees January 12th, 2015 at 6:53 pm

            The Buddhist response is in reaction to Islamic activity. They were not inspired by any Judeo Christian impetus.

          • Bunya January 12th, 2015 at 9:09 pm

            I didn’t say the Buddhist response was inspired by Judeo Christian impetus. I said their reaction was unexpected as Buddhists, unlike other religious factions, are non aggressive.

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 12:39 pm

            Did you have your clitoridectomy yet?

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 1:27 pm

            Did you have yours?

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 1:40 pm

            Don’t need it but the men in your culture like them …mutilation is up your alley I see… why are they so afraid of women…just like the hassids your semitic cousins

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 1:46 pm

            Sorry,I thought only women used cats for avatars.

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 1:51 pm

            That cat is more than you can imagine…but then again you don’t care much for animals either..

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 1:56 pm

            Ugh, you probably sly with one and let them lick you after they lick their privates.

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 1:59 pm

            Still keep the goats in the apartment??

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 2:06 pm

            ‘Islamaphobes’ are the worlds greatest threat to world peace.

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 2:10 pm

            And what’s your excuse…I despise all religions …as I said at the start

            And if you are half as smart as you think you are …you know I’m right..power and money and in most religions FEAR of women..

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 2:13 pm

            Your solution must be an atheist war to cleanse the world of religion.

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 2:24 pm

            I don’t need war…you self destruct all by yourselves…How come the leadership is never believer enough to be a suicide bomber?? Just collect the money, power and enslave women..

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 2:32 pm

            So it’s not all religions, you are against Muslims predominately.

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 2:37 pm

            Read whatever you want into it…YOU are the one with a chip on their shoulder..not me..

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 2:38 pm

            Education has failed you on .
            It’s an enabler not only of your everything = same perspective, but creationism, anti-vaccination, climate-change denial, fluoride-mind-control, contrails,…

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 2:55 pm

            I should have realized…a troll LOL You forgot flat earth society ROTFLMAO

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 3:01 pm

            Calling troll is the last resort when losing an argument.

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 3:08 pm

            3 comments is a good start… LOL

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 3:12 pm

            Trolls are addicted to the net and can have the most comments. Usually a private profile when its a man.

          • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 3:55 pm

            you are a troll, go back to politico or whatever pig pen you crawled out of

          • Anomaly 100 January 10th, 2015 at 4:55 pm

            That was uncalled for.

          • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 3:54 pm

            why, because you are a fool

          • StoneyCurtisll January 11th, 2015 at 12:53 pm

            Actually ‘genital mutilation’ is banned in most countries, but the three countries where it is most common are Ethopia, Eritrea, and The Sudan, all of which have Christian majorities.

          • rg9rts January 11th, 2015 at 1:03 pm

            Might be banned but still practiced today…regardless of the nominal creed of the nation… sucking the blood from a bris is banned but still done

          • StoneyCurtisll January 11th, 2015 at 2:30 pm

            it’s all wrong if ya ask me..
            They busted some Rabbi recently for doing the briss and suckin “the blood” off the wound, which is illegal now due to the deaths of a couple of infants form herpies.
            http://forward.com/articles/195306/rabbi-performs-controversial-metzitzah-bpeh-circum/?p=all

          • rg9rts January 11th, 2015 at 2:43 pm

            You think that stops them?? Tradition trumps all

          • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 3:54 pm

            troll , go play in traffic

          • trees January 10th, 2015 at 12:47 pm

            Sounds threatening…..

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 1:26 pm

            If you poke a hornets nest with a stick and you get stung, do you blame the hornets?

          • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 3:53 pm

            troll

          • trees January 10th, 2015 at 10:02 pm

            So, anything denigrating to the prophet Mohammed is justification for violence?

          • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 4:15 pm

            In Islamic states… the violence is done legally through Sharia law. Of course its wrong by our standards.

          • trees January 11th, 2015 at 6:24 pm

            So, Islamic law condones violence.

            That’s interesting.

          • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 6:49 pm

            There are thirteen countries where being an atheist can get you jailed and executed. Afghanistan, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Nigeria, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

            There is some where around 20 countries where apostasy and blasphemy is punished with jail, corporal punishment, and execution. Most of these countries are Muslim majority nations. When the leadership of many Muslim countries believes that violence is an acceptable solution to punish speech they don’t agree with, is it really that surprising that terrorist would use the same methods. That is one of the sources of where terrorists get the idea that they should kill innocent people like charlie hebdo.

          • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 7:01 pm

            This site is anti-Islam, …but it does have a list of the passages in the Koran condoning killing blasphemers, infidels, and apostates.
            http://thereligionofpeace.com/quran/023-violence.htm

            This site is anti-Bible and shows scripture supporting the same things in the Bible.
            http://www.evilbible.com/BiblicalIntolerance.htm

          • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 3:53 pm

            you profess a need to judge, you are a fool and always wrong. newbie troll

          • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 3:53 pm

            shut up

        • StoneyCurtisll January 11th, 2015 at 12:45 pm

          Their 72 virgins are no more real than heaven or hell..

          • rg9rts January 11th, 2015 at 1:04 pm

            All PMSing at the same time.. You know that one was made up by someone that NEVER had to live with one …much less 72..

      • fahvel January 10th, 2015 at 12:46 pm

        perfectly said, “profit”. maroon!

        • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 1:23 pm

          Learn to capitalize your sentences and spell moron and you won’t seem like a one.

      • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 3:52 pm

        do not presume you know me or have any right to judge me. untill you are certain you need to shut the hell up

        • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 4:11 pm

          I only responded to your anti-Islam post. Other than that I don’t know you.

          • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 4:23 pm

            you are a liar and a troll, you came trolling and looking for a fight.

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 4:30 pm

            With your multiple attack against me, it seem you are looking for a fight. I only made one comment to you that wasn’t personal and it seem to have set you off.

      • tracey marie January 12th, 2015 at 7:27 pm

        rotflmao, what an asinine troll you are

    • fahvel January 10th, 2015 at 12:45 pm

      good one TM.

    • StoneyCurtisll January 11th, 2015 at 12:44 pm

      I think they take their fantasy books and deities a lot more serious them most religions.

  2. neworleans878 January 9th, 2015 at 9:28 pm

    Religion may the opiate of the masses, but for these clowns it’s more like crystal meth or crack.

  3. ExPFCWintergreen January 9th, 2015 at 9:56 pm

    I’m sort of tired of hearing Muslims say these cats don’t “represent” Islam. If that’s so, then it’s time for the Muslim community to get its house in order, because these radicals are RE-representing Islam and are playing right into the hands of our own, home-grown radical Christianists and their lickspittle lackeys on Capitol Hill.

  4. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker January 9th, 2015 at 10:51 pm

    You only have to go back over the last 3000 years of history to see the death, suffering, pain and destruction religion has caused mankind.
    But it’s still a real money maker today….without having to pay taxes too….woo hoo!

  5. trees January 10th, 2015 at 4:07 am

    An Islamic organization claims credit for the killings, explains that the killings were carried out for religious reasons, and vows to impose their religious beliefs upon non-believers……

    And the securlar, liberal, non-believers reply……

    Those are not “real Muslims”, cause “real Muslims ” wouldn’t behave this way.

    ???????

    • mea_mark January 10th, 2015 at 11:17 am

      Yup, that is pretty much the way it is. There is an extreme right-wing faction in the middle east that has hijacked parts of the muslim religion and perverted it for selfish reasons. Something similar is happening here in America with Christianity. Should we blame all Christians for the sins of those faux Christians that sin in the name of their supposed GOP God and GOP Jesus?

      • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 3:31 pm

        FYI I have a friend that went on a construction contract to Saudi Arabia to build high rise condo’s and he was shocked to see that as soon as the building was open ….17 stories…the occupiers brought in their goats too. I don’t make slurs… the woman(?) doesn’t know much about her culture..and I have a high count from my HP days and I am private from the troll wars on ET.. and like you,as a mod…your count goes up.

      • StoneyCurtisll January 11th, 2015 at 12:42 pm

        Yes~!

    • fahvel January 10th, 2015 at 12:44 pm

      you got it! even though you are trying to be ironic – you can have a dummo badge too.

    • William January 10th, 2015 at 1:38 pm

      And the right wing reply (as usual)

    • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 3:50 pm

      3 men in georgia, claiming to be god fearing xtians and real americans tried to but bombs to blow up americans they disagreed with…what were you saying?

    • StoneyCurtisll January 11th, 2015 at 12:41 pm

      Thats it..
      Pretend that Christians dont commit acts of terrorism, or genocide..If you are gonna hate, ya might as well hate them too…(you seem to like to hate)

    • Chinese Democracy January 12th, 2015 at 11:41 pm

      real bigots always react the same way !!!!!!!

  6. rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 8:56 am

    No they will find out why god invented drones..

    • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 10:07 am

      Joining the rightwing call for war will only make things worse.

      • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 10:24 am

        And those clowns in Paris didn’t ??? Lay off your hookah

        • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 12:21 pm

          War hawk.

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 12:31 pm

            66-71 SAC ….arclight

          • fahvel January 10th, 2015 at 12:43 pm

            a truly brilliant response from dummo.

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 12:48 pm

            And what pray tell did farfal do in the war…

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 1:10 pm

            Name calling really helps your cause…doesn’t it…Mr. Brilliant

        • fahvel January 10th, 2015 at 12:42 pm

          what clowns dummo?

          • rg9rts January 10th, 2015 at 12:49 pm

            Brain dead too I see farfal

          • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 3:48 pm

            no way, RG is a good guy

        • Chinese Democracy January 12th, 2015 at 11:40 pm

          or at least share

          • rg9rts January 13th, 2015 at 1:08 am

            She was a troll and mea fell for it

      • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 3:48 pm

        so do bombs and war in general.

      • Chinese Democracy January 12th, 2015 at 11:40 pm

        its not religious war .. since terrorists have zero to do with religion. They just use it as a cover. Just like Conservatives do

    • fahvel January 10th, 2015 at 12:42 pm

      I prefer a wing of phantoms shattering the peace and quiet of their desert sanctuary.

  7. trees January 10th, 2015 at 12:54 pm

    Ya gotta love liberals, they nothing nothing about Islam, ignore what’s going on in the Islamic world, and pretend that Islamic terrorists are not adherents of Islam…..

    Goofy stuff, that’s for sure.

    • William January 10th, 2015 at 1:11 pm

      “Ya gotta love liberals, they nothing nothing about Islam”
      Isn’t it a little early for that?

    • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 1:32 pm

      Islam is the religion of peace.

    • OldLefty January 10th, 2015 at 2:48 pm

      That’s funny.

      That the flip side of what THEY say about YOU.

      There was NO nurturing of radical Islam that was too much to grease the way for Big Business, since the Brits threw in with the Wahabs.

      Remember, funding the Muslim Brotherhood against secular government in Egypt to protect the Suez Canal for the Brits?
      in the 1950s and 1960s the United States supported Said Ramadan as he took over a mosque in Munich, kicking out local Muslims to build what would become one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s most important centers

      ???

      Remember Saadat Hasan Manto’s “Letters to Uncle Sam” in the 1950’s
      “If this gang of mullahs is armed in the American style, the Soviet Union that hawks communism and socialism in our country will have to shut shop….”

      ???

      That’s when we choose the wackos in Pakistan over democracy in India.

      Remember In the late 1980s, Pakistani President Benazir Bhutto, feeling the mujaheddin network has grown too strong, tells George H. W. Bush, “You are creating a jihadi Frankenstein.”

      ???

      Meanwhile, there is a pattern of supporting radicals because they seem more friendly to business, while questing the patriotism of everyone who warns you, then bemoaning their power, screaming “How did THIS happen? and How did these people get so radical??!!”

    • StoneyCurtisll January 11th, 2015 at 12:31 pm

      Is there some type of emotional gratification you get from being both ignorant, and full of hate?
      Of course the two always accompany one another.

    • Chinese Democracy January 12th, 2015 at 11:38 pm

      True! Ya GOTTA love liberals. 🙂

  8. Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 2:20 pm

    http://www.alternet.org/media/45-examples-muslim-outrage-about-charlie-hebdo-attack-fox-news-missed
    “It’s not fair of the network (fox) to say that Muslims have been quiet over the tragedy.”

    • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 4:01 pm

      you are a troll

      • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 4:04 pm

        Believing in fair treatment of Muslims make me a troll? Interesting.

        • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 4:11 pm

          no, you are a troll

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 4:14 pm

            That’s not very respectful. Trolls insult instead of using reasonable replies.

          • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 4:23 pm

            trolls deserve no respect, you came here and was rude and judgemental to many. do not think we fall for your kind of games.

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 4:25 pm

            Denouncing slurs against Muslims and encouraging peace is Rude. Interesting.

          • tracey marie January 10th, 2015 at 4:36 pm

            you are a troll, period

          • Inartic January 10th, 2015 at 4:39 pm

            From my perspective you are. All insults and no substance in your interaction with me.

          • mea_mark January 10th, 2015 at 4:49 pm

            You sure picked a strange time to change your handle and avatar.

          • Apocalypse January 10th, 2015 at 9:16 pm

            I got trolled pretty hard yesterday over a link to an Alternet article and some pew polls, I wanted to see what the reaction would be if I was supportive of Islam. The commenters in question proved that it didn’t matter what side of the issue I was on if it did not comport complete agreement with their comments. I also discovered that freedom of speech is as easily denied by moderators as by terrorist.

          • trees January 10th, 2015 at 10:05 pm

            Just a guess, but it was probably your comment about cats licking that got you banned.

          • Apocalypse January 10th, 2015 at 10:11 pm

            Probably, I have had cats and dogs that I let lick me and sleep with me, the comment was just returning one ethic insult about muslims not liking animals with a Muslim perspective.

          • mea_mark January 11th, 2015 at 8:47 am

            Some of the context may have been loss too since I had already deleted so many comments. Things were getting out of control.

          • mea_mark January 11th, 2015 at 8:46 am

            I don’t want to ban you. Just be careful and let others be what they want to be and if they get out of line flag them. Don’t stoop down to their level.

          • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 9:22 am

            OK.

          • tracey marie January 12th, 2015 at 7:29 pm

            we know who and what you are

          • tracey marie January 12th, 2015 at 7:29 pm

            and you deleted all my comments but let hers stand…interesting

  9. mea_mark January 10th, 2015 at 2:28 pm

    Spirited discussion is fine but please everybody, remain civil and respectful.

  10. trees January 10th, 2015 at 8:16 pm

    Question, are the guys carrying RPGs in the above photo Muslims?

    Just curious

    • Obewon January 11th, 2015 at 7:19 pm

      Palin’s Pals (now convicted & serving 25 years): — March 2011: Five people in the Fairbanks area are arrested on charges of plotting to kidnap or kill state troopers and a Fairbanks judge. All five are self-proclaimed “sovereign citizens” including local militia leader Schaeffer Cox. Via FBI crime data linked. http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/violence-directed-liberal-and-govern

    • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 11:11 pm

      They appear to be.

  11. Obewon January 11th, 2015 at 7:12 pm

    Europol publishes an annual report entitled EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report on their official website proving: Europol Report; All Terrorists are Muslims…Except the 99.6% that Aren’t https://www.europol.europa.eu/latest_publications/37 via http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/terrorism-in-europe/

    2/3+ of all global and domestic terrorism are caused by Sovereign citizen/Patriot movement, Christian identity anarchists!

    • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 8:03 pm

      The loon watch only had graphs up to 2008, which would exclude terrorism in and related to Syria and by Boko Harum…a significant amount.
      The eropol report show a yearly increase in religious terrorism and a decline in other types. At any rate…the 99.6 number seems questionable

      • Obewon January 11th, 2015 at 8:31 pm

        Who ties your shoes? E.g. “Except the 99.6% that Aren’t https://www.europol.europa.eu/latest_publications/37 via http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/terrorism-in-europe/

        • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 8:41 pm

          Nice Ad Hominem . I read your links. Only the loon watch suggested 99.6 percent and it not take data after 2009 into account, nor did it adequately support it’s claim to begin with. From the article ” I used official FBI records to show that only 6% of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from 1980 to 2005 were carried out by Islamic extremists.” that would be 94% aren’t….only most Islamist terror happens in other countries…look at your europol report.

          • Obewon January 11th, 2015 at 9:04 pm

            “Sovereign Citizens, Tax-Protestors Number One Domestic Terror Threat Says DHS Orb”-August 2014.

            EuroPol cites Internationally and annually, proving that you grasp at debunked strawman arguments.

          • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 9:23 pm

            I don’t think you read or understood the entire report. What does Muslim rights (which are suppressed in Islamic countries) have to do with Boko Harum or the killers in France . There have beeb few Islamist terror attacks in the US (like the Boston bombing), most are in other countries.

          • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 9:49 pm

            Being number one does not equal 99.6%

            From the article ” I used official FBI records to show that only 6% of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from 1980 to 2005 were carried out by Islamic extremists.”

            That would be 94% on US soil, …after 911 most attacks have been overseas,
            http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/terrorism-in-europe/

          • Obewon January 12th, 2015 at 8:15 pm

            ELF liberates garden gnomes, never killing anyone e.g. 24% from extreme left wing groups.

          • Apocalypse January 12th, 2015 at 9:28 pm

            Not many terrorist match this
            http://www.bbc.com/news/world-30080914

          • Chinese Democracy January 12th, 2015 at 8:01 pm

            I remember when it was discovered 99.9 of domestic terror threats came from the right and McTurtle was outraged!

          • Obewon January 12th, 2015 at 8:12 pm

            McTurtle outraged-Ha!
            Mitch: ‘ I’l only believe RWNJ’s are USA’s majority terrorists when Dinesh D’Souza is imprisoned and Birther Ben Carson sells snake oil…’

    • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 9:58 pm

      July 2008-2011 via linked FBI crime reports.
      Pre ISIS and Boko Harum numbers.

  12. Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    “Jihadist attacks killed more than 5,000 people in just one month, an investigation by the BBC World Service and King’s College London has found.”
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-30080914

    • Obewon January 11th, 2015 at 7:49 pm

      GWB’s USA Christian Oil Pirate Terrorists killed 1 M to 2 M unarmed Iraqi women, babies and children for the $6 trillion+ you got shafted with.

      • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 8:10 pm

        That war deserves condemnation.
        Does Bushes actions excuse Boko Harum slaugherting 2000 Nigerian civilians in the last few days. Or the murder of the cartoonists. Can they kill up to 1 to 2 million to get even before we condemn their actions.

        • Obewon January 11th, 2015 at 8:29 pm

          You don’t seem to get that 99.6% of all Muslims aren’t terrorists and these (Saudi Arabian Wahabi financed) extremists are derided by most every Islamic member and organization.

    • Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 10:03 pm

      In one month…, bombs accounted for the most deaths, with 1,653 people killed in 241 explosions. These included 38 suicide blasts, which took 650 lives and 128 other bombs, such as improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which killed 555.

      Some explosions were large and aimed at the public while others were highly targeted, such as the man who got inside a police headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, before blowing himself up.

      Gun attacks took at least another 1,574 lives, while a further 666 deaths were described as ambushes, many of which are likely to have involved shootings.

      It is estimated that 426 people were murdered in execution-style killings, including 50 who were reported to have been beheaded in Syria, Yemen and Libya.

      Among these were captured US aid worker Peter Kassig, who was beheaded along with a group of Syrians in the middle of the month.

      Mortars and shelling killed 204 people and 49 were attacked with knives.

  13. Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 10:30 pm

    The majority of EU Member States continue to consider religiously inspired terrorism as a major threat, as evidenced by the significant increase in the number of arrests. Two attacks and several disrupted plots in 2013 illustrate this threat. Al-Qaeda and like-minded terrorist groups abroad continued to encourage self-organised attacks within the EU aiming for indiscriminate casualties.
    https://www.europol.europa.eu/latest_publications/37

  14. Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    Statistics before 2012 tell little about the present.

    There were nearly 10,000 terrorist attacks in 2013, a 44% increase from the previous year, the Global Terrorism Index 2014 report added.

    The report said militant groups Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and the Taliban were behind most of the deaths.

  15. Apocalypse January 11th, 2015 at 10:55 pm