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A pro-style jihadist commando attack in Europe?s heart. Cui bono?
Careful planning and preparation, Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenade launcher, balaclavas, sand-colored ammunition vest stuffed with spare magazines, army boots, easy escape in a black Citroen?
And the icing on this particularly lethal cake: faultless Paris-based logistical support to pull it all off. A former top French military commander, Frédéric Gallois, has stressed the perfect application of ?urban guerrilla technique? (where are those notorious Western counter-terrorism ?experts? when one needs them?)
Some said they spoke perfect French, while others maintained their command of the language was mangled and broken. Anyway, what matters is that they uttered the magic word: ?We?re Al-Qaeda.? Better yet, they told a man in the street: ?Tell the media that this is Al-Qaeda in Yemen,? which means, in American terror terminology, Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP), which had Charlie Hebdo?s editor/cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier (?Charb?) on a hit list duly promoted by AQAP?s glossy Inspire magazine. Accusation: "Insulting the Prophet Mohammed."
And just to make sure everyone had the perpetrators implanted on their brain, the killers also said, ?Allahu Akbar?,?We have killed Charlie Hebdo? and ?We have avenged the Prophet.?
Case closed? Well, it took only a few hours for French police to identify the (usual?) suspects: French-Algerian brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi. The third man, the driver of the black Citroen, apparently 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, then turned himself in with an ironclad alibi. So the third man remains a cipher.
They all wore balaclavas. The Kouachi brothers have not been captured, but the police seem to know very well who they are. Because they found an abandoned ID in the black Citroen (oh, the troubles of being a command in a rush?) How come they didn?t know anything before the carnage?
Right on cue, Cherif Kouachi?s bio was splattered all over the shop. He was on a global watch list. Along with six others, he was sentenced in May 2008 to 3 years in prison for ?terrorism?; in fact unloading a dozen young Frenchmen via madrassas in Egypt and Syria to none other than Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the killed-by-an-American-missile former head of Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the spiritual father of Daesh/ISIS/ISIL.
Also right on clue, a full narrative was ready for mass consumption. According to French police ?experts,? this could be an attack ?ordered from abroad and executed by jihadists coming back from Syria that have escaped us,? or it could be ?suburban idiots that radicalized themselves and concocted this military attack in the name of Al-Qaeda.?
Scrap option two, please; this was a pro job. And staying with option one, this points right at ? what else - blowback. Yes, they could be Daesh/ISIS/ISIL mercenaries trained by NATO (crucially, France included) in Turkey and/or Jordan. But it might get even false-flag nastier. They could also be former or current French special forces.
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