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A Charlie Hebdo newspaper is displayed at a newsstand in Nice southeastern France, on Jan. 14.(Photo: Lionel Cironneau, AP)
The first edition of Charlie Hebdo since the terror attacks in Paris last week that left 17 people dead appeared to sell out at newsstands across France within minutes of going on sale Wednesday.
Copies of Charlie Hebdo's defiant new issue were running low just a few minutes after being made available at dawn at kiosks, according to Agence France-Press and the Associated Press. The AP said it witnessed scuffles as people realized that copies were selling quickly.
Wednesday's issue of the satirical newspaper features a cartoon on its cover depicting the prophet Mohammed. He is crying and holding a sign in his hands that says, "Je suis Charle" ("I am Charlie") — a reference to the slogan adopted by anti-violence and free speech campaigners in the wake of the attacks. It is forbidden under Islam to show images depicting the prophet.
Three million copies have been printed — 60,000 are usually published— and the print run may be extended. It has been translated into six languages and is being distributed internationally for the first time.
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Paris terror attacks
A week ago, gunmen linked to radical Islam murdered eight staff members at the magazine along with four other people. Four more people were killed in separate attacks on a policewomen and at a kosher supermarket.
The publication of Charlie Hebdo's controversial cover comes as France's government was preparing new, tougher anti-terror laws. On Wednesday, police detained French comic Dieudonne for defending terrorism in comments posted on Facebook.
In a separate development, al-Qaeda in Yemen reiterated Wednesday claims of responsibility for the attack on Charlie Hebdo.
The group released a new video in which Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP as the branch is known, said the attack on Paris newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" was in retaliation for insulting the prophet Mohammed.
The video was briefly available on YouTube before being taken down. Last week, the same group released a statement to the Associated Press in which they claimed responsibility for the "Charlie Hebdo" killings.
In the video, Al-Ansi says France is part of the "party of Satan" and he warns of further "tragedies and terror." Al-Ansi says Yemen's al-Qaeda branch "chose the target, laid out the plan and financed the operation."
Amedy Coulibaly, who held hostages at the Jewish supermarket, pledged allegiance in a video released on Sunday to Islamic State militants.
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Defiant 'Charlie Hebdo' staff defends Mohammed cover
Copies of the upcoming edition of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo are stacked at a distribution centre in Nantes, France, Jan. 13, 2015. Charlie Hebdo will feature cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in its next edition, to be published on 14 January. It will have a print run of 3 million, up from an earlier announced run of 1 million, and far in excess of the weekly magazine's usual circulation of 60,000. The cover shows a turbanned man weeping under the caption 'All is forgiven,' in French, holding a sign saying 'I am Charlie,' according to a draft published by Liberation daily online.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Eddy LeMaistre, epa)
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