WHO ATTACKED PARIS? HOUSE CHAIRMEN SAY IT’S STILL UNCLEAR, writes Bridget Johnson:

Congressional leaders said Friday night that it still wasn’t clear which terrorist group was responsible for coordinated terror attacks that killed more than 150 people.

Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula was behind the January attacks in the city on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a grocery store. The terror group talked about their operation in the summer issue of Inspire magazine and threatened new attacks on France, “the party of Satan.”

“It is France that has shared all of America’s crimes. It is France that has committed crimes in Mali and the Islamic Maghreb. It is France that supports the annihilation of Muslims in Central Africa in the name of race cleansing,” said the magazine. “They are the party of Satan, the enemies of Allah the Almighty and the enemies of His Prophets – peace be upon them.”

No group has claimed responsibility yet and intelligence officials were still trying to piece together the events. The attacks at seven sites included a mix of methods: gunmen, suicide bombers and drive-by shooters.

One of the gunmen, at the Bataclan concert venue, reportedly shouted in French that they were conducting the attack because of what was happening in Syria.

It could also be another terror affiliate that has a big beef with France: al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

Five terrorists were reportedly “neutralized,” possibly leaving several at large.

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said “we do not yet know what specific group is responsible, but their strategy of attacking soft targets, spreading terror and uncertainty, and using the fear they create to further radicalize and recruit is one we will have to get much better at confronting.”

On one level, CNN knows who the suspects are – “extremists:”

(To be fair, the article the Tweet links to actually uses the T-word, astonishingly enough, given CNN’s lifetime of moral equivalency.)