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March 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
De Hautecloque told Le Monde that negotiations with Merah had been going well
and he had passed over a trove of information about the dreadful killings he
had taken part in during the previous ten days. “It was like a
testament before his departure,” he said. “We tried to the end to
negotiate his surrender. He announced at 10.45pm on Wednesday that he wanted
to die weapons in hand and that is what he did.”
Merah, who had been wearing a bullet proof vest beneath his Arab dishdash
robe, managed to leap through a window before being shot dead with a bullet
to the head. He left behind him two wounded officers.
Claude Guéant, France’s Interior Minister, told reporters at the scene: “Officers
used to this type of situation said they had never seen such a violent
assault.”
Only a day earlier Mr Gueant had emphasised the intent to capture Merah alive. “We
have one priority – to take him alive so that he can surrender to face
justice.”
Throughout the night police had conducted an operation designed to intimidate
the gunman and exert extreme psychological pressure in the hope of ending
the stalemate with his surrender.
With electricity and gas supplies already cut off to the five storey apartment
block, the surrounding streets of the Cote Pavee district of Toulouse were
thrown into darkness at around 10pm when the first of a volley of explosions
were directed at the building.
The controlled detonations continued intermittently throughout the night
interspersed with spotlights on 17 Rue Sergent Vigne and continuing after
dawn with flash grenades.
Mr Gueant explained: “The decision to arrest him was taken this morning
(Thursday). At 10.30am, grenades were launched, as others had been during
the night, but there was no reaction from him to this. The RAID officers
then decided to enter the flat first by the door, then the windows which had
had their shutters blown off overnight.”
As the drama finally came to an end after 32 hours fresh details emerged of
Merah’s links to Islamic extremist organisations.
His descent into darkness began in the grim housing estates of Les Izards and
Mirail, where he is mostly remembered for his love of football and
motorbikes and for buying sweets for local children.
But within a few years he had transformed into an angry young jihadist with a
fanatical belief in Salafism, an ultraconservative brand of Islam.
French authorities believe that he and his older brother, Abdelkader, became
involved in two local Islamist organisations, Forsane Alizza (The Knights of
Pride) and a more militant, jihadist network known as the Toulouse group.
The Toulouse group, which brought together young fundamentalists of North
African descent, was formed in around 2006, with the stated aim of targeting
American interests in France and sending recruits to Iraq.
The organisation was investigated by the authorities in 2006 and 2007. Merah’s
older brother, Abdelkader Merah, who was arrested by French police on
Wednesday, was believed to be a member.
“Mohamed was about 18 years old but we think he may have been in contact
with those on the list, through his brother, including more recently when
members of the group were released from prison,” an investigator told
French newspaper Aujourd’hui.
“It is a structured group that maintains links with other networks in
Paris and Belgium. We are focusing our efforts on the links the group may
have had with the Merah brothers.”
“Some of them trained for combat and documents were found which led us to
believe that they were preparing themselves for kamikaze actions,” a
judicial source said.
In 2009 several members of the group were found guilty of various
terrorist-related offences and given prison sentences of between six months
and six years.
The younger Merah was not among those arrested. Instead he dabbled in petty
crime and worked on and off as a panel beater.
He lived largely on the dole, frequently changing address, and castigated his
mother for not living with a man – her single status was an affront to his
increasingly hard-line views.
A social worker who knew Merah as a teenager said he started off as a normal
young boy but was later “indoctrinated” by Salafist extremists
from the area.
“He liked danger – he used to race cars and motorbikes and do dangerous
stunts. That turned into delinquency and petty crime. But to then start
killing people, that is something quite different. Somebody must have
directed him,” Christophe, who has worked with generations of North
African immigrant teenagers, told The Daily Telegraph.
“He fell in with the Salafists – the hard core who want to attack the
West. It’s not uncommon – I overhear 17-year-old kids here saying how they
want to become suicide bombers. These kids get brainwashed, they become
predators.”
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