I guess it´d be better to get him alive and all the info he has as well if the are other "cells" around...
You are right Kai, it would be easy to take him down but any collceted intelligence in this matter is needed.
Definitely an AQ-job. Not only has he been in AFPAK for terrorist training but he has connections to extremist muslim groups in France.
Lets quickly jump to conclusions about who and what he is. Yesterday he was NEO now he is AQ. Tomorrow he he will be a Martian agianst planet Earth.
They f..ing know his name! They got his brother! He's been in the crosshairs of the police for guess what ... connections to muslim terrorists/extremists. Oh, and he's told them he's AQ. Jumping to conclusions? Not so much IMO. edit: Typos fixe.
TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - A gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al Qaeda, including three children at a Jewish school, said on Wednesday he would hand himself over to police to end an hours-long siege in southwestern France. About 300 police, some in bullet-proof body armor, cordoned off an area surrounding a four-storey house in a leafy suburb of the city of Toulouse where the 24-year-old Muslim man, identified as Mohamed Merah, was holed up on the ground floor. Goto: French school killings suspect says will surrender - Yahoo! News
I'm glad they got his brother alive and made him talk : explosives have been found in his car only minutes ago! Apparently the nutters were about to do more damage.
It was reported this guy has trained in Pakistan with AQ. He has murdered 7 and has a mountain of explosives. It had to take thousands of dollars to travel between Pakistan and France and I doubt he paid in cash. If fact I don't think you could pay in cash, it would set off all sorts of alarms !! He had to pay for living expenses and Toulouse, France is not a cheap place to live.... I'm sure his motorcycle and the explosives cost a bundle.... So like the old saying goes, FOLLOW THE MONEY !! Someone had to put out a paper trail if it be a charge card or a money wire. He had to have a phone so records of payments would be available. Hell, he was arrested on February, 24th on traffic charges. How did he make bail ?? Who paid it ?? FOLLOW THE MONEY !! I just hope this leads to others that financed this creep. But what I find amazing is this little snot, Mohammed Merah, is only 24 years old... Let's say it took a year or so to train in Pakistan (whatever that is) and it took a year or so to travel and settle in France. So he started his life of terror at around 20-22 years old ! Back when I was 20-22 I was chasing skirts and feeling my oats, not murder and terror. It's a changing world and I don't like the changes.
Actually it is my expierence that the older you are the more stable, how many middle aged suicide terrorist are there? Sure there are 'leaders' who organise and occasionally partake, but most actual doers are the young. Look at the Red/anachist gangs of the '70's in Europe as an example. Is AQ really that much different?
He's been in prison in Afghanistan in 2008 but escaped when the Taliban attack and freed a s...load of this scum.
There are conflicting statements regarding the veracity of this! I really hope they get him alife, good intel is more important then "an eye for an eye" justice!
I read that too Markus B., but then I read also that it was his brother that was included in that mass escape. I think I'll hold off on biting on this for a bit of time.
You dont need the BBC, try this brand new thing called the internet, it does have other news sources. Even my Iphone even has news on it.
I was listening to old fashioned VHF radio while having breakfast. By the way, even your Iphone? Strange expression.