“We think Coulibaly had probably accomplices… The threat is still present,” Valls said, echoing concerns of U.S. security experts that the extremists who killed a total of 17 people last week in Paris may not have worked alone.
Valls’ comments come a day after a video emerged online which shows one of the gunmen, Amedy Coulibaly, pledging his allegiance to the leader of the Iraqi terror group ISIS and claiming his actions are “totally justified.” In the video, Coulibaly shows off an arsenal of several firearms and at one point wears what appears to be a ballistics vest…
Over the weekend a senior U.S. intelligence official told ABC News the French terror attacks, specifically the Charlie Hebdo assault, were carried out with the support of an unknown number of “enablers” from some form of jihadi network that reached into Syria and Yemen. Morten Storm, a former jihadi who spied on AQAP for years for Western intelligence, told ABC News last week he suspected such a network was involved in the massacre.
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