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| Sarkozy Likens Toulouse Shootings To 9/11, Vowing Crackdown |
| 2012-03-31 |
| French President Nicolas Sarkozy ...23rd and current President of the French Republic and ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. Sarkozy is married to singer-songwriter Carla Bruni, who has a really nice birthday suit... has vowed to continue cracking down on the so-called suspected Islamists, comparing the recent Toulouse shootings to the September 11, 2001 incidents in the US. "The trauma... 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 said in an interview with Europe 1 radio on Friday. On March 22, suspected shooter Mohammed Merah killed seven individuals in a shooting rampage in Toulouse. Merah was later killed by French security forces. Authorities claim he had admitted to having links to al-Qaeda before his death, the circumstances of which remain murky as there are conflicting reports regarding the case. French police have placed in long-term storage about 20 Mohammedans in pre-dawn raids in Toulouse and reportedly seized Kalashnikov-type assault rifles. On Sunday, authorities charged the gunman's brother, Abdel-Kader Merah, with complicity in the attacks, although he has denied any involvement in the terrorist incident. |
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