A.M. Links: Nearly 4 Million Participate in French Unity Rallies, U.S. Says No Intel Al-Qaeda Involved in Paris Attacks, Other Newspapers Targeted After Reprinting Charlie Hebdo Cartoons
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euronews Nearly 4 million people participated in a unity rallies in Paris and across France, joined by several dozen heads of state and government including the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas. The United States, which sent no high-level representatives, says it has no credible intelligence that Al-Qaeda was involved in Wednesday's attack on the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo—the masked gunmen told witnesses they were with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which reprinted some of Charlie Hebdo's illustrations, was targeted by arsonists this weekend while the offices of Belgian newspaper Le Soir, which also ran some of the cartoons, were evacuated after receiving a bomb threat.
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