U.S. probing Islamic State claims it was behind Texas cartoon attack

The area around a car that was used the previous night by two gunmen is investigated by local police and the FBI in Garland

By Mark Hosenball and Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. investigators were looking into claims by the Islamic State that it was behind a failed attack on a Texas exhibit of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in which two gunmen were killed, but officials said on Tuesday they doubted the militant group’s direct involvement. The Syria- and Iraq-based Islamic State (IS) said on its official online radio station that “two soldiers of the caliphate” carried out the attack on Sunday in Garland, a suburb of Dallas.

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