Shooting Suspect Still Holding Police at Bay

Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 by Post Scripts

by Jack Lee

UPDATE: Toulouse shooting. It’s been 24 hours since the gunman has been holed up in an apartment. Three French police officers have been wounded in gunfire. “TOULOUSE, France — For Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman suspected of killing four Jews and three Muslim soldiers in southwestern France, the road to radicalization ran from a delinquent childhood in Toulouse to Kandahar in Afghanistan.” Read more here.

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2 Responses to Shooting Suspect Still Holding Police at Bay

  1. Tina says:
    Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 10:07 pm

    This quote from Der Speigel says it all for me:

    The case threatens to turn into a fiasco for the French authorities. Apparently Merah was able to travel to a terrorist camp in Afghanistan and later return to France unmolested, despite having been arrested and having subsequently escaped from prison in the meantime. Although the events brought the man to the attention of the intelligence agencies, they fatally underestimated the threat he posed.

  2. Post Scripts says:
    Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 7:51 pm

    Tina, I heard on the news that he was caught in Afghanistan at a road check point by us. He was taken into custody and shipped back to France. The French did nothing. – Jack

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