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March 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Police evacuated frightened residents of the building, helping them escape
from the rooftop using fire truck ladders.
Claude Guéant, the French interior minister denied on Wednesday afternoon
earlier media reports that the self-proclaimed 24 year-old al Qaeda
supporter had been arrested.
“The negotiations continue. They are still under way,” he said in a
call to AFP after French TV aired claims the 23-year-old suspect in seven
killings had been taken into custody by police special forces surrounding
his flat.
Speaking to police negotiators he said his actions were done to seek revenge
for Palestinian children and French military postings overseas. The Islamist
is also believed to have told a journalist that he was motivated by France’s
ban on wearing the Burka. Ebba Kalondo, the deputy head of the channel’s
Africa service, says Merah wanted to “take revenge on the law against
the full Islamic veil (in France) ” Kalondo said.
French paratroopers carry the coffin of their comrade Abel Chennouf
during his funeral at the Montauban’s cathedral watched by his pregnant
partner Caroline
As the standoff continued police ran sweeping searches of the homes of Merah’s
mother, brother and brother’s companion. All the were detained for
questioning. Police brought Merah’s mother the scene of the siege, hoping
she could talk her son to surrender but she refused, saying she had “little
control” over her son.
It became increasingly apparent that the spate of terror attacks were a family
affair when explosives were found Merah’s brother’s car.
Mr Gueant said the suspect’s brother “is also engaged in the Salafi
ideology,” a reference to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam.
Cedric Delage, regional secretary for a police union, said a key to tracking
the suspect was the powerful Yamaha motorcycle that he has used in all three
attacks – a dark gray one that had been stolen March 6. The frame was
painted white, the color witnesses saw in the school attack. According to
Delage, one of the suspect’s brothers went to a motorcycle sales outfit to
ask how to modify the GPS tracker, raising suspicions. The vendor then
contacted police.
French policemen and firefighters stand near the Belle Paule residence
on Rue du Sergent Vigne where police attempt to arrest a suspected Al-Qaeda
gunman in Toulouse
A lawyer who has previously represented Merah, described his former client as
a “polite and courteous” man. But the French news sources
suggested that the alleged gunman Mohammed Merah tried to enlist in the
French Foreign Legion and the French army a few years ago but was rejected
on the grounds of his psychological instability and criminal past. A
broadcaster at Europe one reported that “between two trips to
Afghanistan, Mohamed Merah, the alleged perpetrator of the massacre of the
Jewish school in Toulouse and killing soldiers of Toulouse and Montauban,
applied to enter the French army and the Foreign Legion, in 2008. He
presented himself at both recruitment centers in Toulouse, the TIP of the
Foreign Legion and CIRFA of the Army but was not selected because of his
criminal record and his psychological instability.”
The first French paratrooper killed was shot March 11 after posting an
announcement online to sell his motorcycle and investigators believe the
gunman responded and lured the paratrooper into an isolated place to kill
him.
The schoolchildren killed, all of French-Israeli nationality, were buried in
Israel on Wednesday as relatives sobbed inconsolably. The bodies of Rabbi
Jonathan Sandler, his sons Arieh, 5, and Gabriel, 3, and 8-year-old Myriam
Monsenego had been flown there in the day.
At the funeral ceremony in Jerusalem, Myriam’s eldest brother, Avishai, in his
20s, wailed and called to God to give his parents the strength “to
endure the worst trial that can be endured.”
It was believed the suspect’s apartment is on the ground floor in the building
besieged in an operation transpiring to be one of France’s largest manhunts.
As police tried to continue negotiations Merah is reported to have told
French reporters calmly, “Either I go to prison my head held high or to
death with a smile.”
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