ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attack at Texas Event Showing Muhammad Cartoons
The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for last weekend’s attack in Garland, Tex., during which two assailants shot a security guard before being killed by police officers outside an event devoted to cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, news agencies reported on Tuesday.
The group, which is fighting an insurgency in Syria and Iraq, said on its official radio station Al Bayan that “two soldiers of the caliphate” had carried out the attack, The Associated Press said.
The statement provided few details, however, and it remained unclear whether the extremist group was in fact involved even indirectly in the attack or whether it was making the claim for purely for propaganda value, following a pattern of trying to attract recruits by extolling terrorist attacks against Western targets.
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