Al-Qaeda in Yemen threatens France with new attacks: SITE monitoring group

Washington: A top official from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) threatened France with fresh attacks following those at the Charlie Hebdo magazine and at a Jewish supermarket, SITE monitoring group has said.

"If you refuse but to wage war, then wait for the glad tiding," Harith al-Nadhari was quoted saying in a video on Friday.

He stopped short of claiming responsibility for the three days of Islamist bloodshed in France that left 17 people dead.

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But one of the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack studied in Yemen, where he attended Al-Qaeda training camps, Yemeni security sources and a classmate have said.

French elite forces stormed two hostage sites on Friday, killing the brothers behind the Charlie Hebdo massacre and an accomplice in a fiery end that also claimed the lives of four hostages at the city center supermarket.