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PARIS — Two al-Qaida-linked brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo massacre came out of their hideaway with guns blazing Friday and were killed in a clash with security forces, French police said. Moments later, another hostage-taker in Paris was killed in a separate clash, along with three of his hostages.

France has been high alert since the country’s worst terror attack in decades — the massacre Wednesday in Paris at Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead.

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A member of al-Qaida’s branch in Yemen said Friday the group directed the attack against the French satirical magazine “as revenge for the honour” of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

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The member provided to The Associated Press a statement in English saying “the leadership of AQAP directed the operations and they have chosen their target carefully.”

He says the attack was in line with warnings from the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden to the West about “the consequences of the persistence in the blasphemy against Muslim sanctities”