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| Merah May Have Been A Govt. Informant |
| 2012-03-31 |
| French and Italian newspapers say gunman Mohamed Merah involved in a shooting spree in Toulouse that killed 7 people may have been an informant for La Belle France's intelligence services. The 23-year old French was killed after a 32-hour standoff following three multi-ethnic and multi-confessional shootings. Italian newspaper Il Foglio said Merah's trip to Israel and Afghanistan in 2010 was made with the knowledge of the French foreign secret service, which rejects the report. Also, head of La Belle France's domestic intelligence service DCRI, Bernard Squarcini was quoted by Le Monde as saying that Merah asked for a local DCRI agent by name during the standoff, the same agent who questioned Merah after returning from his 2010 trip. Merah told the agent "Anyway, I was going to call you to say I had some tip-offs for you, but actually I was going to [kill] you," Squarcini told the paper but rejected speculation that Merah worked as a French government informant. Many now believe that Merah could have had a friendly relationship with the agent, which could explain why police did not initially suspect Merah. However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... a former head of a French intelligence service Yves Bonnet said it was "striking" that Merah appeared to have a DCRI "handler" adding, "Having a handler, that is not an innocent thing. I don't know how far his relationship, or collaboration, with the service went but it is a question worth raising" the Toulouse newspaper La Depeche du Midi quoted Bonnet as saying. Mohamed was suspected of killing a rabbi and his 3 and 6-year-old sons in a shooting spree at a Jewish school in Toulouse. The school principal's 10-year-old daughter was also killed in the incident that left a fifth person injured. The French police have linked the attack to two other shootings days before Mohamed's death, in which three soldiers of North African or Caribbean descent were killed. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Yes. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2012-03-31 11:01 |
| #3 OMG multi-ethnic and multi-confessional shootings. Is it possible to get anymore PC, waffley, squishy, insulting and despicable? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2012-03-31 09:25 |
| #2 Suspected? |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2012-03-31 06:31 |
| #1 MAJ Nidal Malik Hasan redux? At least the French were smart enough to terminate the project with prejudice. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-03-31 02:18 |