Paris – The SITE Intelligence Group is reporting that a lesser-known jihadist group is claiming responsibility for three shootings in southern France that left seven people dead.
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The reported claim Thursday by Jund al-Khilafah, a group that has also claimed past attacks in Afghanistan and Kazakhstan, comes after Mohamed Merah — the leading suspect — died after a firefight with French police.
SITE, which monitors jihadist messages on the Internet, said the group issued a statement in jihadist forums saying “Yusuf of France” led an attack Monday, the day of shootings that killed a rabbi and three Jewish children in Toulouse.
French police say Merah, 23, had bragged to them that he carried out the seven slayings to “bring France to its knees.”
Stupid group as they will be knocked off one by one.
If they were involved they wouldn’t they have trumpeted the fact BEFORE he died? Sounds like they’re publicity hounds.