Islamic State calls on Muslims to attack West

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The Associated Press

A copy of the latest edition of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo is placed amongst floral tributes laid outside the magazine’s offices in Paris on January 14, 2015. The first issue of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to be published since a jihadist attack decimated its editorial staff last week was sold out within minutes at kiosks across France. AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET

BEIRUT — The spokesman for the Islamic State group is calling on Muslims living in Western countries to carry out more attacks, saying any loyalist who has the opportunity to “shed a drop of blood” should do so.Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, in an audio recording released Monday, praised recent attacks in Australia, Belgium and France — where gunmen killed 12 people in an assault on the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo magazine.

He also praised the gunman who shot and killed a soldier in October at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed the parliament building before being killed by security forces.

Al-Adnani also made reference to the death last week of Saudi King Abdullah, saying Muslims “are happy for the death of the tyrant of the peninsula.”