Charlie Hebdo
Everyone seems to want a piece of history.
Three
million copies of Charlie Hebdo's first edition since the terrorist
attacks flew off newsstand racks on Wednesday. Another million or so
went on sale Thursday.
The cover
features a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed crying as he holds a sign
saying "Je suis Charlie," or "I am Charlie," beneath the headline "All
is forgiven." This run of the magazine could reach 5 million copies.
The victims
Two more funerals for victims of the violence were being held Thursday.
They
are policeman Franck Brinsolaro and Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Bernard
"Tignous" Verlhac. Both were killed at the magazine's offices.
Brinsolaro
was on duty as a protection officer and Verlhac was there for an
editorial meeting when, authorities said, brothers Said and Cherif
Kouachi burst into the newsroom and gunned down staffers, killing 12 and
wounding 11.
The claim
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility Wednesday for last week's rampage at the satirical magazine.
The attack was years in the making, AQAP commander Nasr Ibn Ali al-Ansi said in a video, claiming U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was the mastermind behind it.
Al-Awlaki was the terror group's spokesman before a U.S. drone strike killed him in Yemen in 2011.
For
days, intelligence analysts have been trying to piece together whether
the Kouachi brothers, the gunmen who attacked the magazine, met him on trips to Yemen -- a theory that could be bolstered by the new video's claim.
Al-Ansi praised the magazine attack, saying it was revenge for Charlie Hebdo's depictions of Mohammed.
U.S. authorities said they think the video is authentic. But they weren't ready to say that AQAP helped carry out the assault.
AQAP did not claim responsibility for Friday's deadly siege at a kosher grocery store in Paris, but praised it.
"It
was a blessing from Allah" that the store siege, in which four hostages
were killed, took place about the same time, al-Ansi said.
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