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By Brian Love

PARIS — A French satirical weekly whose office was firebombed after it printed a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed has reproduced the image with other caricatures in a special supplement distributed with one of the country’s leading newspapers.

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The weekly Charlie Hebdo defended “the freedom to poke fun” in the four-page supplement, which was wrapped around copies of the left-wing daily Liberation on Thursday, a day after an arson attack gutted Charlie Hebdo’s Paris headquarters.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place hours before an edition of

Charlie Hebdo

hit newsstands featuring a cover-page cartoon of Mohammed and a speech bubble with the words: “100 lashes if you don’t die of laughter.”

The weekly, known for its irreverent treatment of the political establishment and religious figures, bore the headline “Charia Hebdo,” in a reference to Muslim sharia law, and said that week’s issue had been guest-edited by Mohammed.