French police have been in a standoff with the man they think was behind the shootings of the Jewishs school and the three soldiers. He says he’s part of al Qaeda, and this AP article does not once call the shooter a Muslim, though it identifies some of his victims as such.
A gunman claiming Al Qaeda links and suspected in the killings of three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers barricaded himself in an apartment building Wednesday. He is surrounded by hundreds of police officers and has stopped talking to negotiators.
An early morning police raid to arrest the 24-year-old Frenchman of Algerian descent erupted into a firefight. Three police officers were wounded, Interior Minister Claude Gueant said. After hours of trying to persuade him to surrender, police evacuated the five-story building, escorting residents out by the roof and fire truck ladders.
The bolded text is code for Muslim in France. Apparently, he murdered his co-religionists because he thought they were responsible for Afghanistan. Oh, and he’s totally blaming Israel, as will many pundits. And of course, the AP carries that information in the third paragraph of the lead, making sure it won’t get cut off in the “World News” section of your local papers.
The suspect told police he belonged to Al Qaeda and wanted to take revenge for Palestinian children killed in the Middle East, Gueant said. The suspect also said he was angry about French military intervention abroad, and had spent time in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Gueant said.
So he was radicalized in jihadi camps. And this despicable piece of garbage was brainwashed that murdering children and shooting soldiers as they get money from an ATM is a proper response. But hey, there’s no threat coming from Afghanistan or Pakistan. We should just up and leave, because we killed bin Laden.
Here’s the thing: The anti-Israel angle is going to be played up. But al Qaeda is every bit as ant-Semitic as neo-Nazis, and there are more of them. Just ask Daniel Pearl. Oh, wait. You can’t. Al Qaeda killed him, after forcing him to say “I am a Jew” on tape.
In every generation, they try to destroy us. Our enemies are interchangeable.