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Video of Paris gunman raises questions of affiliations

This image made from a video posted online by militants on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, shows slain hostage-taker Amedy Coulibaly, who shot a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher grocery in Paris, speaking in broken Arabic that he seems to be reading from a paper, in front of an Islamic State emblem, as he defends the attacks carried out on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, police and the Jewish store.
This image made from a video posted online by militants on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, shows slain hostage-taker Amedy Coulibaly, who shot a policewoman and four hostages at a kosher grocery in Paris, speaking in broken Arabic that he seems to be reading from a paper, in front of an Islamic State emblem, as he defends the attacks carried out on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, police and the Jewish store.

By Associated Press 6 min read

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PARIS — Two days after his death, a video emerged Sunday of one of the Paris gunmen pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group, while his two fellow militants have claimed to be from al-Qaida — a fiercely rival extremist organization.

That seeming contradiction has raised questions about the connections among the three French attackers, whether they acted with the direct involvement or knowledge of the networks, and whether their friendship allowed them to put aside the rift between the groups.

The Islamic State group does not cooperate with al-Qaida’s militants and actually fights them for territory in a side conflict of Syria’s civil war.

In video verified by the SITE Intelligence Group, Amedy Coulibaly said he had worked in coordination with Said and Cherif Kouachi, the “brothers from our team,” who carried out the massacre at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday.