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The Spectacle Blog
As of this writing, there is a standoff at an apartment building in Toulouse between French authorities and the shooter responsible for seven deaths over a period of eight days.
The gunman has been identified as Mohammad Merah, a Frenchman of Algerian descent who is affiliated with al Qaeda. He had fought with al Qaeda and was imprisoned in 2007 for planting bombs only to escape a year later with help from the Taliban.
Merah told negotiators that he killed the schoolchildren as revenge for killing of Palestinian children and also wanted to kill French soldiers for their involvement in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
French authorities are trying to capture Merah alive. However, he has exchanged gunfire with police and has wounded three officers.
Meanwhile, the three schoolchildren have been laid to rest in Israel.
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PCC| 3.21.12 @ 9:08AM
Gee, he's a Muslim extremist? What a surprise.
A religion of peace? I'll believe that when the so-called moderate adherents of this 8th century faith publicly reject and actively expose their barbaric brethren.
I'm not holding my breath.
Screwtape| 3.21.12 @ 9:50AM
There is no such thing as a religion of peace. Never has been.
9thID| 3.21.12 @ 10:48AM
That esp. applies to the religion of secular humanism and the hundreds of millions they have butchered in the name of collectivism...
Drek| 3.21.12 @ 9:37AM
What's going to happen in Europe in twenty years.............
They're in for it over there.
What their European elites have done, by allowing muslim immigration, is just insane.
Screwtape| 3.21.12 @ 9:51AM
England for the English! Duetschland uber Alles!
9thID| 3.21.12 @ 10:50AM
...and Marxism for the world!
Drek| 3.21.12 @ 11:34AM
Yea, because multiculturalism and diversity is working out so well for them.
Why don't you go take a gander at the incidence of rape and gang rape in Sweeden during the last fifteen years, whereas before rape was so infrequent in Sweeden before that it wasn't recorded in social crime studies because the numbers were statistically "insignificant."
But hey, let's chime in via the keyboards! Then we can all pat ourselves on the back for being so morally superior, -------- isn't that how it goes?
Ken (Old Texican)| 3.21.12 @ 10:22AM
The media has been reporting the shooter is/was a neo-nazi.
OLDRAY| 3.21.12 @ 10:40AM
The French deserve credit for doing their best to capture this Jihad rat alive. He could prove a valuable source of information. Meanwhile the Egyptian parliment declares they are at war with Israel and Obama declares we should continue military funding to Egypt. Where the hell is our Republican Congress? They have proven to be another bunch of wimps In Afghanistan our military now has to ask permission of an Afghan Islamic judge before conducting any night operations . We're now being ordered around by this bunch of enemies of western civilization with Obama's cooperation?
9thID| 3.21.12 @ 10:53AM
Was really sad to see the video of jihadists in N. Africa desecrating a British Christian and Jewish WWII cemetery...
Skippy| 3.21.12 @ 12:04PM
What do you expect from savages?
Dmitry Aleksandrovich| 3.21.12 @ 1:10PM
I predicted that it would be a Wahhabist scumbag. They care nothing for children so much so that they butchered them in Beslan. Unfortunately the U.S. and the West are now working hand and hand with Al Qaeda in places like Libya and now Syria.
Drek| 3.21.12 @ 2:52PM
How can any of us forget Beslan!
The gloves should have come off after that in a major way...........
Frog in Uniform| 3.21.12 @ 4:48PM
Please do not call that jerk a French! Any French arab with an Algerian or Moroccan or Tunisian passport is no French by my yardstick, besides there is absolutely no way for a non muslim French to ever obtain the citizenship of any arab or muslim country, and I'm a firm believer in reciprocity...
What drives me nuts apart from the 2 elite RAID SWATmen wounded by the goat molester is the treatment of the case by the US media:
http://i41.servimg.com/u/f41/1.....ptur22.jpg
Buddhist? Asians? Can't you guys call a turd a turd?