America
IS claims responsibility for Texas shooting
IS claims responsibility for Texas shooting
Baghdad, May 5 The Islamic State (IS) militant group on Tuesday
claimed responsibility for an attack on Sunday outside a US venue for
conference on cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed.
In a statement read on its al-Biyan radio station, the IS said that "two
soldiers of the caliphate" opened fire at an exhibition where the
conference was held in the city of Garland in Texas, Xinhua news agency
reported.
"We tell America that what is coming is worse and more bitter, and that
you will see from the soldiers of the IS what will aggravate you," said
the statement.
The radio station is based in the IS-controlled city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
On Sunday evening, two men drove up to the Culwell Event Center in Garland, and
opened fire when the "Draw Mohammad" contest and conference was
coming to an end, wounding an unarmed security guard.
The two were shot dead by police.
The attack in Texas was the first inside the US to be claimed by the extremist
group.
In January, a deadly attack killed 12 people at the Paris office of French
satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo after it put an image of Prophet Muhammad on its
cover.
Another deadly shooting occurred the following month at an event in Copenhagen
featuring an artist who had caricatured the Prophet.