Wednesday - March 21, 2012

seige in paris as al qaeda gunman shoots it out with police

FINAL UPDATE: Defenestration Demonstration
Shot by cops, Mohammed jumps out window. Splat. Dead

TOULOUSE, France - An Islamic extremist who boasted of killing seven people to strike back at France died after being shot in the head by police as he jumped out of his apartment after a fierce gunfight with police, authorities said.

His dramatic death ended a more than 32-hour standoff with an elite police squad trying to capture him alive. The suspect, 23-year-old Mohamed Merah, was wanted in the deaths of three paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a rabbi — all killed since March 11 in what he reportedly told police was an attempt to “bring France to its knees.”
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Prosecutor Francois Molins said Merah, a French citizen of Algerian descent who claimed links to al Qaeda, burst out of his bathroom when police entered his apartment Thursday morning, wildly firing his handgun about 30 times and jumping out an apartment window.

Merah continued to fire “until he was hit by a retaliatory shot from the RAID (elite police unit), which felled him with a bullet to the head,” Molins said.

Holed up alone in an otherwise evacuated apartment building, Merah clung to his few remaining assets, like a small arsenal and authorities’ hopes of taking him alive. He appeared to toy with police negotiators—first saying he would surrender in the afternoon, then under the cover of darkness, then reneging on those pledges altogether, officials said.
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the suspect had plans to kill another soldier—prompting the police raid at around 3 a.m. Wednesday. After it erupted into a firefight, wounding two police, a standoff ensued, with on-and-off negotiations with the suspect that lasted through the night.
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“The killer came out of the bathroom, firing with extreme violence,” Claude Gueant, the interior minister, said, adding that the RAID squad had “never seen an assault like it.”

“Mohamed Merah jumped out the window, gun in hand, continuing to fire. He was found dead on the ground,” Gueant said.

Gueant earlier had said police wanted to capture Merah alive.

Reuters reported that explosions and gunfire were heard for about four minutes as police special forces moved in on the apartment. Authorities used gas to try and paralyze the suspect, the report said.

Mohammed Merah, 23, who claimed to have al-Qaeda training, opened fire on police commandos after they stormed into his flat at 09:30 GMT.
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Prosecutor Francois Molins confirmed in a news conference that a police marksman had killed Merah as he tried to jump out of the bathroom window.

“The examination of the body shows that he was shot in the head and that he was wearing a bullet-proof vest,” Mr Molins said, “and had a gun covered by a pair of jeans.”

“Material to make Molotov cocktails were found on his balcony.”

Mr Molins said a Colt 45 handgun was found next to his body, and he estimated that Merah had fired 30 bullets as the commandos broke in.

Get out the shovels and the squeegees, and throw his remains into the dustbin of history.



UPDATE: GOT HIM HIS BROTHER
crap, he’s still alive. double crap, the main suspect still has not been brought to justice.

The older brother of the self-confessed Al Qaeda terrorist thought to have murdered seven people across south west France over the past two weeks has been arrested.

Abdelkader Mera, 27, was detained this afternoon some 10 hours after a 3am raid when 300 armed police dramatically swooped on his 24-year-old brother Mohammed’s Toulouse home.

Three officers were injured this morning in an ensuing firefight - and Mohammed is now cornered and under siege.

And the story just keeps on getting worse: suspect is a sword wielding kidnapper

Suspected serial killer Mohammed Mera, who broke out of an Afghanistan jail in 2008 as part of a mass Taliban escape, once kidnapped another man, it has been reported. A close family friend of the 24-year-old suspect told Le Parisien she knew him well while in the city’s Izards housing estate.

The woman, Laela, said: ‘He was well known to the police. Around two years ago he kidnapped a young person on the estate.

‘I remember that the mother of the boy in question was wandering around the estate trying to find him. ‘Finally, her son was freed. And I’m convinced then a complaint was lodged, and Mohammed was heard by investigating officers.’

Following the kidnapping, for which he was never charged, he is said to have ‘crossed the estate in combat gear, with a sword in his hand shouting ‘Al Qaeda, Al Qaeda!’.

The police siege has been going on for hours now, with 3 cops wounded so far. The suspect is believed to still be in the apartment building. Further updates when they occur.

Dramatic siege in Toulouse suburb as armed police surround house of ‘Islamic warrior’ suspected of being serial killer
Self-confessed terrorist thought to have killed seven people in two weeks
Mohammed Mera, 24, is ‘armed and dangerous’ and likely to kill again
Has Uzi machine gun, Kalashnikov assault rifle and other weapons
Three tactical police officers wounded as they tried to arrest suspect
Second man believed to be his brother arrested nearby
Gunman’s mother at the siege trying to persuade him to hive himself up
By PETER ALLEN

PUBLISHED: 08:27, 21 March 2012 | UPDATED: 09:23, 21 March 2012

ALL THE REST PLUS PIX HERE AT THE SOURCE. DAILY MAIL




Drew adds a bit from the madly PC AP [ the Associated (with terrorists) Press ], a news article “sanitized for your protection” like the toilet in a hotel room:

The suspect told police he belonged to Al Qaeda and wanted to take revenge for Palestinian children killed in the Middle East, Gueant said. The suspect also said he was angry about French military intervention abroad, and had spent time in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Gueant said.
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An Interior Ministry official identified the suspect as Mohammad Merah, who has been under surveillance for years for having “fundamentalist” views. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
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The suspect “said he wants to avenge the deaths of Palestinians,” Gueant told reporters, adding that he is “less explicit” about why he killed French paratroopers. The paratroopers were of Muslim and French Caribbean origin, but the interior minister said the suspect told them the ethnic origin has nothing to do with his actions. “He’s after the army,” Gueant said.
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A judicial official said the suspect’s mother, his brother and a companion of the brother were detained for questioning. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.

The interior minister had said the suspect’s brother “is also engaged in the Salafi ideology,” a reference to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam.

This article completely ignores the bit of news that the guy is Taliban, and an escapee from a prison in Afghanistan. And he’s made several trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan since coming to France 4 years ago. And he’s over here with mommy, and at least one brother? Oh, they were just fleeing a war zone looking for a better life and a chance to start all over again? Bullshit. Sleeper agents, the whole damn family.

Oh, and the “powerful motorcycle” used in these killings ... is a scooter. Granted, it’s a euro-scooter, a strange thing they call a maxi-scooter, which is a giant 500lb thing with full coverage swoopy fairings, saddle bag boxes, a glove box, etc., “suitable for touring”. Powered by a 530cc 2 cylinder twin that makes 43hp and a 2 speed automatic transmission. Fuel injected and computer controlled. O-60 in 11 seconds, 45mpg. $14,000 with built-in GPS tracking device, which is what French cops used to find the guy. TMAX scooter review, and another one in really fractured English.

A small update from CNN as more details emerge ...

He had been under surveillance by French intelligence for years, the interior minister said.

He had “already committed certain infractions, some with violence,” Gueant said.

He was in a Toulouse court February 24 for causing an accident with injuries and driving without a license and served some time in jail, CNN affiliate BFM-TV reported.

Gueant said the suspect had a car containing more weapons near his apartment.
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Interior Minister Gueant said the suspect is a French national of Algerian origin who spent considerable time in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The suspect’s lawyer, Christian Etelin, said Merah went to Afghanistan two years ago.
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The suspect belongs to a group called Forsane Alizza, or Knights of Glory, Gueant said. The French government banned the group in January for trying to recruit people to fight in Afghanistan.

And an interesting bit of CYA coming from Sandland By The Sea:

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad strongly rejected using his people as a justification for the French killings, calling them a “cowardly terrorist attack.”

“It is time for those criminals to stop exploiting the name of Palestine through their terrorist actions,” Fayyad said in a statement.

Probably a smart act on Fayyad’s part; the murdered Jewish children and their father were laid to rest in Israel, and the Izzies are REALLY PISSED.

I had no time early today to do more then posted, and no time to download photo I thought you should see.  It isn’t that the murder of others is less. The killing of those other children is heartbreaking. But truth to tell, and I don’t know why, but the brutal and cold blooded murder at point blank range of an 8 year old girl who btw was chased down and cornered, somehow the poignancy seems almost more striking.  I hope I’m not putting it too badly and hope you understand.
Anyway .....  Her name was Miriam. The biblical Miriam was elder sister to Moses, and helped hide the baby in the bulrushes.

[ Drew adds the details: ]

On the off chance that you haven’t been following this story, it started with a soldier being murdered when he went to meet somebody to sell his motor scooter. Surveillance cameras caught just how sick a bastard the twisted jihadi really is:

Toulouse Killer Likely Filmed Attack, Executed Little Girl

A tragic update to a tragic story.

Police now say the killer of four Jews in Toulouse likely filmed the attack with a a camera attached to his chest and methodically stalked his victims, murdering a little girl in cold blood.

According to eyewitness accounts, after the killer entered the Jewish Ozar HaTorah school, he chased after 7-year-old Miriam Monsonego and shot her repeatedly.

He grabbed Miriam as she tried to escape, grasped her hair and shot her. Then, as she bled to death on the floor, he lifted up her head and fired two additional bullets.

The brutality of the crime—which also took the lives of Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, and his two sons, Gabriel, 6, and Arieh, 3,—has led French police to suspect a violent, racist intent behind the attacks.

In a bizarre and macbre development, French police also say the killer seems to have filmed the attacks.

Given that they are raised on Political Correctness from birth, and given the wide range of Jew hating groups they have to choose from, French police originally thought that these horrible crimes were perpetrated by neo-Nazis. But filming the murders? No dark humor intended, but that’s a dead giveaway that they’re dealing with jihadis. I’m sure some “suicide bomber farewell videos” will turn up at the creep’s apartment. They always do.

The world needs a purge.

Posted by peiper     on 03/21/2012 at 04:34 AM   
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