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Meet the Charlie Hebdo Truthers. Here Are Their Bizarre Conspiracy Theories.
The available evidence suggests the attackers who killed 12 people and wounded 4 more at the French weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday targeted the magazine because of its history of publishing cartoons about Islam and Muslims. But which radical group, if any, the killers might belong to is unclear: Some reports claim the gunmen shouted their allegiance to "Al Qaeda in Yemen" during the attack; others claim that a Charlie Hebdo tweet mocking ISIS's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, suggests that the Islamic State must have been involved.
Unsatisfied by these explanations, some people are digging deeper, asking who really was to blame for the bloodshed. Here's a rundown of some of the strangest theories:
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President Barack Obama
As if on cue, American conservatives began figuring out ways to somehow blame President Obama for the attacks. Rush Limbaugh claimed that Obama's proclamation in his 2012 United Nations speech following the Benghazi attacks"the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam"emboldened the Paris attackers. "You have the president of the United States rationalizing barbaric behavior," Limbaugh said. "These actions have consequences."
US Intelligence
Russian website Lifenews.ru ran an interview with a political analyst named Alexei Martynov, who suggested the militants were "the US intelligence services." Claiming the notion that the Muhammad cartoons motivated the attack "looks funny," Martynov said, "I am sure that American 'curators' are behind the events in Paris, behind those Islamists, in one way or another. The US is conveniently wreaking havoc in Europe with the goal of muzzling the common sense voices that are calling to restore cooperation with Russia."
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The available evidence suggests the attackers who killed 12 people and wounded 4 more at the French weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday targeted the magazine because of its history of publishing cartoons about Islam and Muslims. But which radical group, if any, the killers might belong to is unclear: Some reports claim the gunmen shouted their allegiance to "Al Qaeda in Yemen" during the attack; others claim that a Charlie Hebdo tweet mocking ISIS's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, suggests that the Islamic State must have been involved.
Unsatisfied by these explanations, some people are digging deeper, asking who really was to blame for the bloodshed. Here's a rundown of some of the strangest theories:
...
President Barack Obama
As if on cue, American conservatives began figuring out ways to somehow blame President Obama for the attacks. Rush Limbaugh claimed that Obama's proclamation in his 2012 United Nations speech following the Benghazi attacks"the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam"emboldened the Paris attackers. "You have the president of the United States rationalizing barbaric behavior," Limbaugh said. "These actions have consequences."
US Intelligence
Russian website Lifenews.ru ran an interview with a political analyst named Alexei Martynov, who suggested the militants were "the US intelligence services." Claiming the notion that the Muhammad cartoons motivated the attack "looks funny," Martynov said, "I am sure that American 'curators' are behind the events in Paris, behind those Islamists, in one way or another. The US is conveniently wreaking havoc in Europe with the goal of muzzling the common sense voices that are calling to restore cooperation with Russia."
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You KNEW it would happen, The Charlie Hebdo Truthers emerge (Original Post)
MohRokTah
Jan 2015
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NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)1. Obama did it? Can an usurper also be an emboldener?
I am mocking them, of course!
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)2. It was Israel, just like 9/11!!!!!!!11111one
They're floating that one, too.
Not to mention Laura Ingraham blaming France for it.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)3. France? Well... I was thinking...
shenmue
(38,506 posts)4. Mother of Mercy!
How dumb do you have to be?