Al-Qaeda threatens Charlie Hebdo for reprinting Prophet caricatures

Days after the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo re-printed a series of controversial caricatures depicting prophet Mohammed, the Al-Qaeda has threatened to carry out another massacre at the magazine’s office in Paris. The cartoons had made the weekly magazine the target of a brutal gun rampage in 2015. In the recent edition of its publication ‘One Ummah’, the terrorist group warned both the magazine’s editorial staff and French President Emmanuel Macron that the attack carried out by two Al-Qaeda terrorists in 2015 was not a “one off”. Al Qaeda’s warning came after Charlie Hebdo republished the caricatures to mark the start of a trial of 14 suspected accomplices, who have been accused of providing logistical and material support to the gunmen five years ago.