French shooting suspect Mohamed Merah arrested after Toulouse siege

National Post ^ | 3-21-2012 | National Post Wire Services

[Colonel Kangaroo]

A gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al-Qaeda, including three children at a Jewish school, has been arrested by police after an hours-long siege in southwestern France.

About 300 police, some in bullet-proof body armor, had earlier 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.

Merah had been arrested for bomb making in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar in 2007 but escaped months later in a Taliban prison break, the director of prisons in Kandahar said.

Merah, a French citizen of Algerian origin...

[null and void]

Mohamed? That was ...unexpected...

[Road Glide]

Very interesting, considering that early reports suggested the killer might be from a right-wing Nazi-sympathizing group...

Could the media have been biased? Ya think?

[jmacusa]

Hang the worthless Saracen bastard.

[no-to-illegals]

Good news regarding an arrest. Thanks for the update.

[Miss Behave]

Bump

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Let me guess, France has no death penalty.

[txrangerette]

Fantastic news!

Wonder how they identified him?

I know we aren’t privy to that info, as that would help the terrorists to know that.

[rhubarbk]

I think, yes!

[mykroar]

Damn Tea Partiers anyways.

[JudgemAll]

Islamic leftist Nazi sympathizer it is, ah, what a surprize!!! Another leftist protected minion who is a poor martyr so long he is or feels inferior, until he has the means... then he is just like Hitler or Stalin or Mao, or all these parasites who use state schemes to keep their biscuit paycheck of cowards.

[jakerobins]

Another ROP’er.....It’s going to be worse when Barry lets more Taliban leaders out of Gitmo! (I suppose our State Run media will tell us it’s only those Amish at it again)

[Yaelle]

Glad they got the al Qaeda monster.

[Baynative]

I heard he had valid concerns and wanted to reason with authorities.

[null and void]

Hear! Hear!

[Travis McGee]

Mohammed. I’m shocked.

[whatexit]

They had to capture him alive so they could surrender to him.

[MichaelP]

1st reports were Neo Nazis... Doesn't surprise me one bit!Suspect had been to Pakistan and Afghanistan too! Again, no surprise!

Mike

[The Great RJ]

Gee I thought he would have been Amish.

[ohioWfan]

Yep. Right-wing "Mohammed." That's the ticket, MSM. You had it figured out from the get go...../s

(Actually, I was thinking they'd figure out how to blame it on Sarah Palin).