Qaeda in Maghreb warns France of more attacks
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb warned France to expect new attacks over its hostility to Islam.
NICOSIA (AFP) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb warned France on Monday to expect new attacks over its hostility to Islam, and praised jihadists behind last week s Paris killings.
"France is paying today the price of its aggression against Muslims and its hostile policy towards Islam," AQIM said in a statement posted on jihadist websites.
"As long as its soldiers occupy countries such as Mali and Central Africa and bombard our people in Syria and Iraq, and as long as its stupid media continues to undermine our prophet (Mohammed), France will expose itself to the worst," it added.
The jihadist group also paid tribute to the three gunmen behind the killing of 17 people in a three-day massacre last week in Paris that began with an attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The statement described them as "the soldiers of Islam" and "heros of the battle of Paris".
