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Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:30 am Post subject:
Yes, already looking very 'Gladio' - main questions for me are is this a covert op designed to play out into the French presidential election or is theire any genuine sentiment being expressed here - and who put them up to it of course
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:32 am Post subject:
The EDL and Breivik go international.
Pretty Clear isn't it?
NATO/Israel and the Safari Club types, our 21st Century Nazis, have created Al Quaeda and are telling them the infidels such as Gaddafi and Assad must be destroyed as it is the will of Allah.
Now they are unveiling their other side - rather closer to their true beliefs if you ask me
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 7:22 am Post subject:
If he says he's got 'links with Al CIAda'
Looking more like a much bigger power-play is behind this
See also the equal mix of stories saying he is Far Right and Al Quaeda.
Just like The Sun on the day after the Breivik killings.
I smell BS!!!
French police involved in shoot-out with Toulouse suspected killer
http://www.euronews.com/2012/03/21/french-police-involved-in-shoot-out -with-toulouse-killer/
21/03 06:46 CET
Two French police officers have been wounded in a shoot-out at a house in Toulouse. In an operation linked to the killing of three children and a rabbi on Monday, officers have surrounded a house.
Inside is a 24-year-old suspect who claims to have links with al Qaeda.
Police are trying to persuade the man to give himself up. A second man thought to be the suspect’s brother has been arrested.
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:32 am Post subject: Another one under "surveillance"
"The suspect was already being monitored" (BBC News commentator, 21/03/12).
Isn't it amazing how many of these characters are already known to the authorities and under surveillance at the time of their outrageous, and of course totally unexpected, crimes.
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Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:18 am Post subject:
All turning nasty at the stroke of midnight.
We may never know now.
That's the way they like it.
Another Muslim demonised.
Nothing proven just the French police's word which ain't worth a centime.
Another election twisted.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:43 am Post subject:
French gunman's death 'logical outcome' of police strategy: Lawyer
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_780496.h tml
Published on Mar 22, 2012
TOULOUSE, France (AFP) - The lawyer of self-proclaimed Al-Qaeda serial killer Mohamed Merah said on Thursday his death in a shootout was the 'logical outcome' of French police strategy in the siege of his flat.
'His death is the logical outcome of the strategy adopted, he was increasingly shut up in his autism, in his removal from reality, nothing was done to help him and reestablish a link, dialogue,' Mr Christian Etlein told AFP.
Mr Etelin defended Merah, 23, against a series of petty crime charges over the years before the radicalised Islamist went on the rampage, allegedly killing seven people.
He said the police strategy during a 32-hour siege of Merah's flat in southern city Toulouse 'could only push him straight towards being hardline and wanting to die with weapons in his hands.'
Mehdi Nedder, who saw Merah on a recent night out, could not understand what had happened to a "normal young man". "Three weeks ago he was in at a nightclub," Mr Nedder told the Associated Press. "And this morning I hear we're talking about al-Qa'ida. How can you change like that in three weeks?"
Though it surprised those who thought they knew him, Merah had been radicalised two years ago, becoming a self-taught, Salafi Muslim extremist. Mr Etelin said he believed Merah's two-year prison term for a mugging could have "provoked hate for the justice system" and "laid the groundwork from which he threw himself into this religious fanaticism".
Merah was released from jail in September 2009, then twice travelled to Pakistan. He crossed the border into Afghanistan, where he was picked up by police in Kandahar – a province with strong ties to the Taliban – handed to US forces and deported back to France.
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Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:06 am Post subject:
French shootings: Calls for probe into 'failures'
INTELLIGENCE failures to be precise!
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France is facing calls for an inquiry into possible intelligence failures after a series of murders by a gunman in the south of the country.
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On Thursday French officials admitted that Merah had been followed by intelligence agencies for years.
They said that as recently as November 2011 he was questioned by France's DCRI domestic intelligence agency to explain his trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Commentators in France and abroad have criticised the intelligence services for failing to track Merah closely enough.
In response, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said: "I understand that people can ask questions whether there were intelligence failures. We need clarity on this."
Separately, officials in Washington said Merah had been on the US government's no-fly list, banning him from boarding any aircraft to America.
The unnamed officials added that Merah's name had been on the list for some time.
However, I won’t rule out the possibility that Merah was actually trained by Israeli forces. Marah may have conducted a false flag operation. By way of deception is, after all, the Mossad’s motto.
Gilad Atzmon:
Read the story of Naeim Giladi, an Israeli agent operating in Iraq in the late 1940’s.
http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/is-it-an-israeli-false-flag-again.html #entry15547959 _________________ "Soon after the year 2000 has been written, a law will go forth from America whose purpose will be to suppress all individual thinking. This will not be the wording of the law, but it will be the intent" Rudolf Steiner: Gegenwärtiges und Vergangenes in Menschengeiste (The Present and the Past in the Human Spirit)
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:27 pm Post subject:
The Return of Gladio And The Rebirth of Terror Under French Tyrant Nicolas Sarkrazy
Saman Mohammadi
The Excavator
Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:11 CDT
Who’s the real tyrant who "kills his own people"?
Another day, another false-flag terror event in another advanced Western democracy. This time, the people of France are the target of Western state-sponsored terrorism and the strategy of tension. The patsy’s name is Mohammed Merah. The names of the people who were murdered by the French state are Jonathan (Yonatan) Sandler, plus two of his young children named Aryeh and Gabriel, and another child named Myriam Monsonego.
This is an ordinary state-run terrorist operation to increase tension, fear, and hatred in Western society. This is what the fascist State does when it is free to write history on the spot and blow stuff up. It kills innocent children to make the submerged public gasp for air, hate the scapegoat, and demand security and steel nerve from the leaders of the State.
Vincenzo Vinciguerra, an Italian neo-fascist and terrorist, described in 1984 the existence of a shadow network of military officials and political leaders in Italy who frequently organized terror attacks to keep the country within the sphere of right-wing politics. This network was part of a larger structure known as Gladio that included government fascists in Europe, America, and NATO. Vinciguerra, who was a mercenary of this secret state-terror network until the day he raised awareness of its existence, said in the famous documentary, Operation Gladio:
Sarkozy’s Backers To Use Toulouse Attacks To Steal French Election – UPDATE!
Joe Quinn
Sott.net
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:07 CDT
[Author Note] As this is a developing story, updates are posted at the end of the article:
Sarkozy speaking in Toulouse, March 19th 2012. A ‘strong leader in a crisis’. But who is behind the crisis?
French President Sarkozy’s 2012 re-election bid has been faltering almost since he was ‘elected’ in 2007. Long viewed by a majority of the French public as a latter-day Napoleon wannabe, some were perplexed as to how he won the 2007 presidential race, given that one year before the election, opinion polls placed him a definite second, and between then and the election he did nothing to justify his alleged increase in popularity, with his ‘Bling Bling’ approach to electioneering turning the stomachs of many French people. In addition, within a few months of his ‘victory’ in May 2007, Sarkozy’s popularity had plummeted to around 30% as people reacted to his austere economic reforms, on which he had openly campaigned, mind you. How to explain such a sudden turnaround so soon after his victory? It was only on election day that, somehow, the diminutive son of a Hungarian immigrant and his ‘princes of Paris‘ were gifted 5 years in the Elysee palace.
Toulouse siege: ‘no evidence gunman had ties to al Qaeda’
London Telegraph
March 24, 2012
The admission will fuel speculation that Mohamed Merah was a “lone wolf” and a “self-starter” who co-opted the al Qaeda brand to commit the massacre.
The official, who is close to the investigation into the attacks by Merah, 23, said there is no sign he had “trained or been in contact with organised groups or jihadists”.
Merah was killed in a gunfight with police Thursday after a 32-hour standoff. Prosecutors said he filmed himself carrying out three attacks since March 11, killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three French paratroopers with close-range shots to the head.
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 4:31 pm Post subject: "Mission accomplished": Le Figaro celebrates Merah
Le Figaro, 23 March 2012
Mission accomplished
10:31 am: After a 32-hour siege, the assault was launched by the RAID and GIPN teams (*).
12:36 pm: The operation is over. The men leave the site.
(*) Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion (RAID) and Groupes d'Intervention
de la Police Nationale (GIPN) are French special forces police units.
[Note: Please click the URL link below to see the other images of this compilation]
excerpt from: Intent on murder to the last: Toulouse scooter assassin dies in hail of gunfire
Serial killer shot as he leapt from window firing weapon
by John Lichfield, The Independent, 23 March 2012
“The scooter assassin, Mohamed Merah, insisted on writing his own bloody script to the end. After a 32-hour siege, the man who threatened to bring France “to its knees” died in a hail of police bullets yesterday while jumping from a window firing an automatic weapon.
It was confirmed that the 23-year-old French citizen, of Algerian origin, made chilling videos of his three attacks in the Toulouse area [in southern France] in the past fortnight, using a miniature camera draped around his neck. Footage recovered from his flat by police shows him executing, at point-blank range, three Jewish children and a teacher on Monday and three off-duty soldiers in two attacks earlier this month.”
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:51 am Post subject:
Which crook at the DGSE leaked this deliberately to Al Jazz?
Do the victims' families want it shown? Question not asked.
Once again Al Jazeera is potentially being used to foist explosive footage. To ignite racial tension. Another hypnotic Trial By Media on the cards.
Still no evidence whatever has been produced that Merah actualy carried out these shootings or shot this snuff-movie film. But the MSM have not noticed that. Have the French people?
At last Merah's brother has been charged with stealing the POWERFUL scooter.
Again we only have the pro-Sarkozy cops' word for this.
The mainstream media NEVER debate the salient points - ALWAYS off the ball.
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Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:08 pm Post subject:
MERAH IS INNOCENT?
"Mohamed Merah" One witness described the killer as "quite fat" and having a tattoo or scar on his face. (BBC News )w
The alleged Toulouse shooter, Mohamed Merah, would appear to be an innocent patsy.
Reportedly, the REAL Mohamed Merah had never been in prison in Afghanistan.
Reportedly, the REAL Mohamed Merah was a fun-loving young chap who liked girls, who was described as being popular and polite, but who had been in trouble with the law.
French shooting suspect not jailed in Afghanistan
Merah's lawyer, Christian Etelin, has said that Merah was in prison in France at the time he was supposed to be in Afghanistan.
According to Reuters, the Kandahar governor's office has said that "security forces in Kandahar have never detained a French citizen named Mohamed Merah."
One might suppose that French Interior Minister Claude Gueant was lying when he said that Merah had been to Afghanistan, and had carried out his killings in revenge for what he had witnessed there.
In Pakistan, an intelligence official said that Merah had never been arrested in Pakistan either. "We have no information about him," the Pakistani official said.
"Mohamed Merah"
According to Whatreallyhappened: "Merah was never in jail in Afghanistan and was still in France during the time he was claimed to be in jail in Afghanistan.
"More and more it looks like this guy was a patsy for a false-flag operation to build sympathy for Israel and a 'wag the dog' to take the media focus off of the massacre of 16 civilians (9 children) by Americans in Afghanistan earlier this month." -http://whatreallyhappened.com/
IT ALSO LOOKS LIKE THE SHOOTINGS ARE DESIGNED TO HELP SARKOZY GET RE-ELECTED!
Of course it is possible that the French secret service smuggled Merah out of jail in France so that he could work for them in Afghanistan.
Sarkozy's Poll Lead After Shootings
Reportedly, the REAL Mohamed Merah was not an Islamic fanatic.
Merah talked about 'cars, bikes and girls'
"Just a few weeks ago, Mohamed Merah partied at a nightclub, and an acquaintance noticed nothing out of the ordinary.
"Another friend said the former car body shop worker liked to talk about 'cars, bikes, girls and sports'.
One might suppose that Prosecutor Francois Molins was lying when he told reporters that Merah was a self-taught Salafi Muslim who had been to Afghanistan twice and had trained in Pakistan.
The official story is that Merah called a French television journalist and told him he carried out the attacks to protest France's ban on veils in public places, the nation's military presence in Afghanistan and in revenge for the deaths of 'Palestinian children'.
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Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:37 pm Post subject:
Toulouse Jew-killing jihadist visited Israel
Maybe he was scouting out targets in his rage and hate against those whom the Qur'an designates as the worst enemies of the Muslims (5:82). "Report: Toulouse Terrorist Visited Israel," by Elad Benari for Israel National News, March 23:
Mohammed Merah, the terrorist who murdered seven people, including a rabbi and three young children, and who was killed by French security forces in Toulouse, visited Israel several years ago, it was reported Thursday.
Channel 10 News reported that the reason for Merah’s visit to Israel is not entirely clear, but it is believed he came to gather intelligence for his attack.
The Channel 10 report was based on a comment made by an American officer serving in Afghanistan to the French newspaper Le Monde. The officer told the newspaper that Merah’s passport had been stamped with entry to and exit from Israel.
However, the National Immigration Authority said on Thursday evening that an initial investigation found that Merah never visited Israel. Kol Yisrael radio reported that the National Immigration Authority said that the terrorist's name, as published in the media, was not found in the list of arrivals to Israel. The authority added that it is continuing to investigate the matter.
Channel 10 noted that there are conflicting reports about whether Merah was identified as an Al-Qaeda activist before 2010, which is when he allegedly visited Israel. The report noted that if he was indeed suspected to be an Al-Qaeda terrorist, then Israeli procedure would have called for him to be interrogated at the airport and to undergo a thorough security check.
It is unknown whether Merah was indeed interrogated or checked, the report said. The Israel Security Agency refused to comment on the issue and said that it was still being review reviewed....
Merah reportedly died when he was shot in the head as he leapt from his window trying to escape the oncoming police.
Mohamed Merah, the notorious killer shot in a stand-off with police a week ago in Toulouse, is still stirring controversy in France. An ex-chief of the French spy agency says Merah might have acted as an informant to the local equivalent of the FBI.
The speculation comes as Yves Bonnet, a former intelligence chief, says Merah might have passed information onto the DCRI, a French domestic intelligence agency.
“He was known to the DCRI, not especially because he was an Islamist, but because he had a correspondent in domestic intelligence,” Bonnet told La Dépêce newspaper on Monday...
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/mar2012/toul-m28.shtml
Reports indicate Toulouse gunman was French intelligence asset
By Alex Lantier
28 March 2012
Press reports and comments by top intelligence officials suggest that Mohamed Merah, the alleged gunman who killed seven people including three Jewish schoolchildren in a nine-day shooting spree in Toulouse, was a French intelligence asset.
These revelations raise questions about French intelligence’s failure to stop Merah, and whether this failure was dictated by political considerations. The investigation of Merah was led by the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI), run by Bernard Squarcini—a close associate of incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy, previously running far behind Socialist Party (PS) candidate François Hollande in next month’s presidential elections, has benefited from massive media coverage after the attacks and now is catching up to Hollande in polls.
In a March 23 Le Monde interview, Squarcini had confirmed that Merah had traveled extensively in the Middle East, even though his legal earnings were roughly at the minimum wage: “He spent time with his brother in Cairo after having traveled in the Near East: Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and even Israel. … Then he went to Afghanistan via Tajikistan. He took unusual routes and did not appear on our radars, nor those of French, American, or local foreign intelligence services.”
Squarcini apparently aimed to bolster the official explanation for Merah’s ability to escape police: he was an undetectable “self-radicalized lone wolf.” This story is being shattered by revelations that French intelligence agencies were apparently in close contact with Merah, trying to develop him as an informant inside Islamist networks...
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Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:26 pm Post subject:
Was Toulouse killer a police informant?
Media reports point to close relationship with French security service despite official denial
John Lichfield
Thursday 29 March 2012
The head of the French internal security service has denied suggestions that authorities "missed" the Toulouse gunman because he was a police informer. Bernard Squarcini took the unusual step of intervening personally to quash speculation that Mohamed Merah was an indic or "snout" for one of his own agents in Toulouse.
Paradoxically, however, the allegations, including stories in the Italian and French regional press, began with a remark by Mr Squarcini himself. The speculation has since been amplified following comments by a retired head of one of the two French security services merged under Mr Squarcini's control four years ago.
Last Friday, the day after Merah, 23, was shot while resisting arrest, Mr Squarcini told Le Monde that the killer had asked, during his 32-hour siege, to speak to a Toulouse-based officer in his agency, the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI). It was this agent – understood to be a young woman of North African origin – who had interrogated Merah when he returned from a two-month visit to Pakistan in November last year.
The DCRI chief told Le Monde newspaper that Merah shocked the agent by saying: "Actually, I was meaning [before the siege] to call to say I had some tip-offs for you. But, actually, I was going to bump you off." In French, he used the word fumer, which means "to smoke" but in slang translates to "murder" or "waste". He also used tu, the familiar word for "you".
In other words, Merah appeared to have a friendly relationship with the agent and intended to lure her into an ambush by pretending to have information about radical Islamist activities in Toulouse. French newspapers have pointed out that even low-level "informant" status for Merah could explain why he passed under the radar of the police and security services.
Well done for covering this on Radio, Tony & Martin. Top marks.
During a brief discussion about this on CIF yesterday with the usual suspects who proclaim the instantly freeze dried narrative as being gospel and that "only assimilated Muslims and Jews were targeted" and "Jews are not now safe in France" etc etc., I pursued the normal path asking for sources etc and this was the reply:
Around 01:00 on 21 March 2012, Merah telephoned France 24, telling a journalist that he had filmed the murders and that he had posted the footage online. He said that he was connected with al-Qaeda and that what he had done was only the beginning. He said that he was motivated by France's ban on wearing the burqa and that "the Jews have killed our brothers and sisters in Palestine."[54]
France 24 said a man called writing around 1 am, posing as the author of the murders. "He said he was in connection with al Qaeda, that what he had done was only the beginning. He said he was against the law on the veil and fought against the French participation in operations NATO in Afghanistan, "said Ebba Kalondo, editor at France 24, who spoke with the man.
"'The Jews have killed our brothers and sisters in Palestine', he added. The man was calm and spoke well. He said he wanted to be heard. He also said he had filmed all the murders, he said that the videos were posted online, "said Ebba Kalondo.
So, the alleged "self confessed Al Qaeda assassin" claim is sourced to an alleged phone call to the head of the African Desk at France 24, allegedly from a male allegedly claiming to be the perp ...
My response to my CIF antagoinist was:
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So, if I rang up a newspaper at 1 am in the morning and claimed it was me what did it, would that be good enough for you ?
The timing of these events and the antics of the chimp Sarkozy is not at all suspicious apparently ...
All, I know is that some folk have been murdered and this chap has also been murdered.
Since we won't get a trial all we have to go on is the instant freeze dried media narrative once again ...
Namibia: Ebba Kalondo 'Angry' With Dead French-Islamic Terrorist
NAMIBIAN-BORN Ebba Kalondo, who is now the deputy head of the Africa Service for France 24 television network, says she is angry with the now dead French Islamic terrorist, Mohamad Merah, for making her his spokesperson during a 32-hour standoff with police last week.
Merah (23) was involved in the killing of seven people: three children and a teacher at a Jewish school, and three French paratroopers last week.
Merah called Kalondo at 01h00 in the morning, when she was about to finish her shift as the senior editor on duty. He wanted her to hear his story and broadcast it.
"I'm still not entirely sure how he managed to get hold of me. France 24 is the only network in France that works 24 hours a day and our footprint is more important than the national channels," she said.
According to her, she did not know at first that she was speaking to a terrorist.
"I don't know how a 'terrorist' sounds like. I was just speaking to a young man," she said.
About 32 hours after Merah had contacted Kalondo to tell his story to the media, he was shot dead during a firefight with French security in Toulouse.
Asked how she she felt about him being killed, Kalondo said: "Very cross. He left me to finish off his story without asking my permission."
Kalondo has been working for France 24, a TV network based in Paris that broadcasts in English, French and Arabic, since 2006. She left Namibia in 2001, and 15 years ago, she was a news presenter on NBC.
"News media have changed dramatically since. Technology has changed our work tools, modes of transmission of images and data no longer needs a mediated platform. Twitter has overtaken the news agencies, and since the Syrian revolution, citizen journalism has come of its own. News gathering, distribution, transmission of news, is a world away since I left NBC," she said.
Besides being part of the news because of Merah, Kalondo's hardest stories involved the gang-rapes of women in Eastern Congo and then interviewing the perpetrators; while the biggest story she covered was the inauguration of American President Barack Obama.
Asked what message she has for Namibia on its 22nd Independence anniversary, Kalondo said: "How does one give advice to a young, beautiful and headstrong woman? I simply hope that she knows that she is more beautiful than most."
Kalondo, who is in Namibia for a break until Friday, said she can't wait for the day when she can return home and be part of "my country's development".
. _________________ The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan.
We hear a laugh on the phone, no smile, just before, the reporter takes the saying "head high", it's not a problem with speech, but rather credibility, or he had his number phone? there was no other person around her including French correctly to meet? or at worst, it aurrait put the speaker so that everyone can hear, even if not, record the conversation, it is rather a good reflex, journalistically speaking, right? foutage of gueul
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from the beginning she says "I do not peus confirm that his is the suspect who call" = ALL SHE SAID FROM THE BEGINNING, it's a trick that surpercherie phone
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How a person wishing to commit two crimes the next day he can call a reporter the day before at 1 am to tell him he is responsible for assassinations Montauban and Toulouse?
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well said and so it seemed very talkative this killer with this nice lady. And then she heard the same Smiles. What a remarkable composure to ask as many pertinent questions about the presidential campaign ... Hopefully the source of that phone call will be traced quickly as he was quick to trace the IP of the mother of the killer ...
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Wait, but you notice the speed of change of the charge? at the beginning when he did not know the origin of the killer they say it was an assassin, and suddenly they found out that this is an Arab MUSLIM, and bah its a terrorist. People disgust me.
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but stop * with your accusations, "it is still a Muslim, oh no my voice your navy) but you are the ZOMBIES SHEEP, you believe everything you notice that they HANDLING you? and MORE if c ' was really a Muslim, and THEN? are also criminals CATHOLIC, JEWISH, buddhists. and then *, stop accusing frankly an ENTIRE religion and learn to question what you see. do not believe everything. brothel, is NOT WIDESPREAD .
_________________ The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan.
French gunman: I was planning more attacks, with outside funds
Police say Mohammed Merah, the gunman responsible for killing three soldiers, a rabbi, and three schoolchildren, made an early morning phone call to France 24 to talk about his motives.
By Robert Marquand, Staff writer / March 21, 2012
Police officers walk next to the building in Toulouse, France, on March 21, where the suspect in the shooting at the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school has been spotted.
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Mohammed Merah, a 24-year-old Algerian who claims ties to Al Qaeda, found himself under siege in a Toulouse apartment at 5:40 a.m. today, only hours after phoning a French television news station to give a concise and clear explanation for his decision to kill seven people, including three children, and to reveal that he planned similar operations in cities across France.
France, which was in a state of apprehension yesterday over an elusive unidentified killer and on its highest state of alert (scarlet), now has not only had several relatives and friends of Mr. Merah under detention, but also volumes of information and motives about the suspect, who was still engaged in a standoff with police as of press time. His mother, two brothers, a friend, and a girlfriend are all under police custody.
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Merah told TV news station France 24 he was allied with Al Qaeda and upholding the honor of his Islamic faith. He also said the killing of the three paratroopers and four Jewish individuals was "necessary” and that he planned to do similar acts in Toulouse again, as well as Paris, Marseilles, and Lyon, according to Ebba Kalondo, the night editor at France 24 who took the call, made from a phone booth at 1 a.m.
“He wanted to qualify some of the details about the bullet casings,” said Ms. Kalondo. He told the editor he would have acted earlier but funding for his attacks – “from inside and outside France” – only recently became available. The funding was for an assortment of weapons and other operational necessities, he said.
French Interior Minister Claude Gueant told reporters in a press conference today that Merah was identified on March 19, the day of the shooting, by tracking an IP address he used to purchase a scooter from the first victim, a French paratrooper named Imad Ibn-Ziater. But Paris prosecutor François Molins said Merah's actual whereabouts – a Toulouse apartment less than two miles from the Jewish school he terrorized – were not discovered until yesterday.
Prosecutors painted a picture of a man who had a violent personality and “mental disorders as a minor.” Merah moved around, living in several different places, and is “of modest means… he can rent by the month and has several places to stay,” Mr. Molins said. Video analysis of his actions at the Jewish school two days ago helped police identify him, implying they may have consulted violent offenders lists. Molins said the young man would stay alone in his room for long periods of time and watched grisly martyrdom films.
The police achieved a break in the case when they checked lists of French citizens who visited Afghanistan and Pakistan, which Merah had done, three times evidently, and investigators cross checked it with lists of young French known to have jihadi sentiments or identified with violent mujahideen actions.
Another major break in the case came when a scooter repairman reported to police that a man entered his shop, asking whether a spray paint job on a scooter would demobilize the scooter tracking system and where the tracker was. The repairman refused to give the latter information and phoned authorities, according to Molins, the prosecutor.
Authorities initially reported that Merah had a cache of explosives in his car but could not confirm this during the press conference. They said they found a car with four weapons, including an Uzi and a pump-action rifle, and that they also tracked down the scooter and helmet used in the attacks.
The prosecutor said Merah “doesn’t have the soul of a martyr, but wants to kill and stay alive,” although he told France 24 there were only two ways he would stop killing: “prison, where he could hold his head up high,” or death.
The prosecutor’s general picture of Merah clashed with the tone of the man who called France 24, although French authorities say Merah has confirmed that he had the conversation. Kalondo said that on the phone Merah was calm, "extremely well-spoken ... very polite ... used no strong language ... was unruffled and sure of himself.
"He said he wanted to avenge his brothers and sisters in Palestine" and was angered by the French law banning the wearing of the burqa, the full-length veil worn by some Muslim women, in public.
. _________________ The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan.
Ebba Kalondo: Immediately he said he wanted to take responsibility for the shootings in Montauban and in Toulouse.
The only part of what he was saying that I thought was choreographed were the details that he said "only could be known by the police or the perpetrators of these acts".
So he gave very specific material, erm details of the circumstances, especially about the bullet casings, the number and there were material items at the murder sites that he shared with me.
He wouldn't share his identity, his personal identity, but he said that he was affiliated to Al Qaeda. That was made very clear.
However he couldn't, he couldn't, he didn't want to expand on whether there's a group, or whether (a) he acted solo, or whether this was a group, but he would interchangeably say "me" - "je" and "nous" - "us".
The motives were also very clear, he said it was to protest against France's recent law banning the Islamic veil and also protesting against Frances participation in the Afghansitan war effort. As for the attack on the Jewish school, he was adamant that it was revenge for the killings of what he termed my little brothers and sisters in Palestine.
Q: You said that he did not reveal his identity but how did he sound ?
Ebba Kalondo: Young, very young early 20's very well spoken, extremely convinced of what he was saying, sincerely convinced and extremely calm, very determined and would end some sentences with exclamations of Arabic phrases, which I would imagine ... and was very convinced of his programme and what had happened and why it had to happen, for him it needed to happen because he said, that basically this law against er that banned the Islamic veil was an affront to Islam and to Muslims around the world.
Q: Now you spoke to him around 1 in the morning, hours before this raid that is ongoing now in Toulouse took place, at the time did he talk at all about further attacks that he was planning ?
Ebba Kalondo: Yeah he specified he said that that France should expect more attacks very soon and he named that there should be attacks in Paris, Lyons, Marseilles and again in Toulouse and the immediate environs on Toulouse, which of course was where the 3 shootings took place a week ago. He said he wasn't scared and said that the only thing that could stop him was either prison or death and he would welcome both.
Q: Ebba, after you received this call, you immediately contacted the authorities. Are they taking the claim seriously.?
Ebba Kalondo: Yes, they took it as a credible claim. It was the first time that anyone had taken responsibility, contacted a media organisation here in France and I think as the morning went on, more and more similarities became apparent, that I can't say for certain but erm clearly the police let it be known that it's probable that it could be him
Q: Did he say why he had chosen our newsroom, Live France 24 ?
Ebba Kalondo: No not really not really, but i would imagine that at 1 o'clock in the monring in the Parisan news room universe, there aren't many rolling news organisations like France 24, who broadcast not only in English and Arabic and in French, with great geographical reach, so I suppose it would be a no-brainer to come to France 24 really.
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Same old story. Allow it to happen and then act to the governments advantage.
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False Flag to get Sarkozy to get reelected..
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use your brain.. the timing couldn't be any better for Sarkozy.. who is also a killer .. and terrorist
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we didn't hear anything from him , even an audio recording !!!!!!
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no evidence prove that this poor guy presumed killed 3 french soldier and 4 jew...little bit of critical thinking...what about if all this was a set up of a secret services again? who have the evidence?
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Her phone call conversation will not be aired !...Because she is a liar !...
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Exclamations? Does she mean shouting. You sure he didnt email you. Sounds like another freedom fighter let through the net to install fear in society and bring public backing for the on going wars in the middle east (Israeli wars). Support for Sarkozys election will increase for how well hes handling the situation. Id like one strong slip up to show the sheeple governments all over the world help 'terrorists' to do this sort of thing. Is there any recording of this conversation btw?
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"Afghan police had checked Merah's identification during a traffic stop, and as a result he was handed over to the U.S. Army, which then put him on board the first plane heading to France."
It sounds like another U.S. patsy sent out to carry out False Flag Attacks.
you are right about the imaginary beings though, no such thing as real " al-quaeda"
As Tony G has already said: Turns out another Afghan chap with the same name was allegedly picked up in Afghan in 2007 and was supposed to have broken out in the Saraposa prison break out in June 2008.
This is a set up for Sarkozy, to show the French people what a great leader he is .Ha Ha what a joke !!! They will fall for it, expect Obama to set up a similar thing nearer the American elections. He is busy now fiddling the figures for the economy showing what great shape the American economy is in. It is all a set up to maintain the status quo.
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This guys a patsy. This is meant to garner support for israel and keep everyone thinking muslims are terrorists... even through the Palestinian issue in there, to make sure we all side with israel and think palestine is bad. Its so obvious now... they keep doing it over and over. You need to stop believing the tv and think for yourself.
I am greatly encouraged by the widespread scepticism these events attract nowadays ...
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"He claims responsibility for a call made to France 24 from a public phone, a call that was made at 11:00 am (local time) and lasted 10 minutes, with a journalist, where he effectively claimed responsibility for these acts that he committed."
Sarkozyism: Not exploiting the "organic Al Q" murders for political gain much ...
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"What must be understood is that the trauma of Montauban and Toulouse is profound for our country, a little – I don't want to compare the horrors – a little like the trauma that followed in the United States and in New York after the September 11, 2001 attacks," he told Europe 1 radio.
Fears of another motorbike serial killer after four shootings in Paris
Police find similarities in murders but as yet no terrorism link has been made
Agencies in Paris
guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 April 2012 20.26 BST
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Police have been on alert in Paris following the recent spate of murders and reports of gunman fleeing on a motorbike. Photograph: Christophe Ena/AP
Police in Paris have linked a 7.65mm gun to four separate murders in the Essone area of the capital since November, raising the possibility of another serial killer following the death of Mohamed Merah in Toulouse on 22 March.
The fourth victim, a 47-year-old woman of Algerian origin, was shot four times in the head on Thursday. The gunman was seen to flee on a motorbike.
Interior Minister Claude Guéant told radio Europe-1: "This series of killings deserves our maximum attention and we're putting all our resources into this affair." Prosecutor Marie-Suzanne Le Quéau told a press conference that police were trying to determine whether there the victims were linked, and whether there was one killer or more than one: "On the theory of a serial killer, I will simply say that three of the murders – the second, third and fourth, show similarities."
However, it was also stressed that as yet no terrorism link had been made, unlike in the seven murders around Toulouse by Merah, who also used a motorbike.
Le Quéau said that a suspect in the first attack was still being held, but had retracted a confession. The fourth victim, Nadjia Lahsene, was shot while in the entrance hall of her housing block in the district of Grigny. A neighbour was quoted as saying: "Everyone is in shock. She didn't feel threatened. She's a normal person, simple, no history." Police appealed for witnesses who saw the gunman, described as tall and slim.
The first victim, Nathalie Davids, a 35-year-old lab assistant, was shot in her block's carpark in Grigny on 27 November. On 22 February, her 52-year old neighbour, Jean-Yves Bonnerue, was killed in the entrance to their building. The third, an 81-year old man, was shot in the suburb of Ris-Orangis on 19 March. 19th.
Le Queau said that over 100 officers have been deployed to investigate the case and carry out identity checks in the area of the attacks. All were killed execution-style, with shots in the head. Le Quéau also said that all four deaths occurred at the same time of day, around 4 to 6 pm. Their locations are also near two trunk roads, allowing a fast escape.
Following the first murder, a man aged 46 was arrested in December; he had been jilted during an affair with the woman, and had a record for petty crime. While in custody and with his lawyer, the man had confessed, but he then made a retraction in front of the investigating judge.
The killings come as France is still distressed by the terror attacks in the south that left dead three Jewish children and a rabbi, plus three paratroopers. Mohamed Merah, the al Qaeda-inspired gunman, also used a powerful motorbike. He was identified, put under siege in his flat, and shot dead while leaping out of the window.
France is holding the first round of its presidential election on 22 April, and the Toulouse case has played into a sharpening of the tone in the campaign; an opinion poll put Socialist François Hollande's lead over President Nicolas Sarkozy at its narrowest so far.
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Information CONFIRMED by the former head of the French intelligence office for Territorial Surveillance, Yves Bonett, who spilled the beans to a newspaper of Toulouse, about Mohammed Merah has been an asset for the French Secret Service. The smoking gun whistleblower who confirms my suspicions that the murderous events in Montauban and Toulouse were an Illuminati inside job.
Posted on 03/27/2012 8:32 - Edited on 27/03/2012 at 12:43 | Interview by Peter Challier
Mohamed Merah had connections with the DCRI, according to former head of the DST
Yves Bonnet, former head of the Directorate for Territorial Surveillance (DST)
In the words of Alain Juppe, there were "gaps" in the case of Mohamed Merah?
The Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence (DCRI), it is true, knew Mohamed Merah. Does this mean that the DCRI has failed in not putting it under greater oversight, tighter? I do not think we should go that far because it's always hard to know what someone intends to do. I know from experience. Moreover, we must never forget that the supervision of a person requires substantial resources and that today, if a fault is in the limited resources of our security services. Unquestionably, the means that are available to the DCRI are not sufficient to cover all needs. I speak of material resources, but above all, human.
Yet elements of challenge. September 10, 2010, the head of the DCRI, Bernard Squarcini, explained the Journal du Dimanche that he placed an immediate threat of Islamist terrorism "the French convert who is radicalized and formed his operation alone" and French jihadi "who leave in Afghanistan. " How is it that Merah spotted, the DCRI has not seen a risk after having a conversation with him, November 14, 2011?
Which, personally, I think asking questions is that the boy had obviously relations with the DCRI as we have learned through the statements of Bernard Squarcini himself. That is to say he had a correspondent in domestic intelligence. So call it "correspondent", call it "case officer" ... I would not know how far these relationships, even this "collaboration" with the service, but one may well wonder about that.
To put a word on things, he was an indicator of the DCRI?
Well that's ... that's exactly the problem. As presenting a challenge, though, is that he was known to the DCRI not specifically because he was Muslim, but because he had a correspondent in domestic intelligence. Or have a correspondent that is not totally innocent. This is not trivial.
Reference was also a delay at the beginning of the investigation. What do you think?
Yes, there was time lost by judges. It should have been considered from the outset that this was a terrorist act. Free kill military is a terrorist act. But it must be recognized, and it is unfortunate that less attention than the killing of military killings of children. Which is another debate. But yes, from the outset, an anti-terrorism judge should have been seized and it is a judicial problem, because whenever there is a crime, it is justice that occurs.
In this regard, it is nevertheless Claude Gueant which monopolized the screens. Was it the role of Interior Minister to comment on the live action of Raid?
Claude Gueant had absolutely no communication skills. It is quite clear. The Interior Minister is not required to intervene in a case which is in the hands of judges. Not only the administrative authority does not interfere with the investigation said that Mr. I Gueant, he is a minister, is not a police officer, but he has even less to comment on the progress of the survey.
What do you think of how the intervention was conducted to challenge Mohamed Mehra? This choice of the seat and the assault rather than that which prevails generally in the arrests of ETA members, for example: a discrete arrest, when the suspect out of his house?
A priori, there was a large latency. The latency should benefit professionals, the most numerous, best equipped, best trained ... Afterwards, the data of the intervention, I would defer to the opinion of Christian Prouteau, if an expert in France, it's him: he is surprised that we have not managed to take him alive. He thinks he has not used the right means, and it was stupidly deprived of the expertise of the GIGN, and we must recognize that in such case, the most professional, most skilled and best, these are the GIGN gendarmes. After, why was wanted to take the Raid ..?
To political issues?
Some say. I will not go far: I do not have the file in hand. But when one considers a violent intervention where police risk their lives should be careful and measured, to ensure that police do not risk their lives and that to me is an extremely important. now I am one of those who regret that he has not really been taken alive and many questions remain. A case like this should be an expert.
A parliamentary committee?
I'd rather see the General Inspectorate of the National Police and the General Inspectorate of the Gendarmerie. For me, this is a problem of technicians. Parliamentarians contribute nothing to the debate, except that the parliamentary commission of inquiry has legal powers.
There was a lightness of police action in light of all this?
Lightness may be saying much but you can feel that media considerations took precedence over everything else. And it begs the question of the effectiveness of the "Vigipirate red." I ask repeatedly, as in this case, we have noticed his perfect nullity. Schools are meant to be protected against the red and Vigipirate example is terrible. Vigipirate is to display and it is useless. By cons, strengthen the capacity of the DCRI, and police ahead, yes. But for a number of years, we sacrifice, we gripe about the credits, we lower the quality of staff. When I was a member, we eliminated a number of posts of commissioner to replace them by peacekeepers, excuse me, but this is not the same level.
These events, however, pointed right at the back window on the theme of "laxity" of the supposedly left on these security issues. What do you think?
This accusation is not worth a nail. Not really a nail. I was director of the DST under leftist governments, the result proved that I was not left since I became an MP Udf, but the Left has ever asked me my card and I was able to act in a completely free, without restrictions and with the support of my ministers, particularly Gaston Deferre. Say that the left is more lax than the right, it's great anything.
The measures announced by Nicolas Sarkozy?
I say watch out for freedom, we should not fall through the dan draconian measures. In addition, our arsenal of laws is sufficient. Let's start with enforcing the laws.
A week after the tragedy, questions still arise
What was the role of domestic intelligence services?
In autumn 2011, Mohammed Merah returned from Afghanistan. On November 22 he went to a summons to the police. He was examined by two people. One officer of the regional domestic intelligence, the DRCI, and a specialist in Islamist movement, special envoy of the central management in Paris. Mohammed Merah is recovering from hepatitis contracted while in Pakistan, will explain that he had gone there for sightseeing ...
Officials will be obliged to let him go because without offense, no evidence has been found against him. But there they will continue covert surveillance, which began long ago, from his first stay in Pakistan or Afghanistan. They find the boy "weird", sneaky, potentially dangerous ... So, what would it take to make that point?
What has served Vigipirate?
Since 7 July 2005, when the London bombings, the alert level has been consistently maintained Vigipirate red. Vigipirate combines the action of the armed forces and police on sensitive sites. Joint patrols armed-police are assured of 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., in principle. Schools, places of worship, places "sensitive". But this plan is not prevented in the performance of the murders, especially to the college Ozar Hatorah.
What could we expect therefore a Vigipirate scarlet?
"A Nazi or an Islamist"?
From the beginning of the investigation, immediately after the murders of the soldiers of Montauban, the police were convinced that this move could only be that of a "Nazi or Islamist."
However, some police officers, who may fit this profile in the far south are barely a dozen people. Why did we not spotted faster Mohammed? Probably because the boy had an atypical profile, between the small neighborhood thug and Islamist Used: unlike his brother, he had no habits or behaviors of an Islamist. "We just rolled in flour," says an investigator.
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