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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks: ‘First of the Storm’

John Bickley

The radical Islamic group that President Obama said Friday morning was “contained” has claimed responsibility for the devastating coordinated terrorists attacks in Paris Friday evening that left over a hundred dead and hundreds more wounded. The attacks, said the Islamic State on its encrypted messaging accounts Saturday, is just the “first of the storm.”

ISIS issued its statement in multiple languages Saturday, condemning Paris as a “capital of prostitution and obscenity” and praising the “faithful group of the soldiers of the Caliphate” who carried out the “blessed attack” on innocent civilians “for which Allah facilitated the causes for success.”

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