French police ended their siege of the building where the multiple murderer jihadi was hiding and attacked. The bastard jumped out the window after trying to take down more people with him. He failed at that, thankfully.
The 31-hour standoff between French authorities and Islamic-extremist Mohammed Merah ended with a series of loud explosions and dramatic gunfight. According police officials, the commotion was the beginning of a raid that left Merah dead.
Claude Guéant the French Interior Minister said the suspect was hiding in the bathroom when the elite police squad raided the apartment. After quietly sitting in the bathtub while the officers searched the apartment, the suspect came out with guns blazing and engaged the armed officers in a shootout that was unlike any they had ever encountered.
Merah then jumped out of a window still shooting while falling to his death. Two police officers were injured in the gunfight but should recover.
The L.A. Times is one of the few sources I could find that call him an Islamist at all, let alone in the lead.
I’m glad the bastard is dead. I’m sorry the police didn’t kill him 31 hours before he died–they gave him another chance to hurt people, and he took it and succeeded. And now the media get to repeat the bullshit excuse that this depraved subhuman murdered children because of Gaza and soldiers because of Afghanistan. It turns out that he was a repeat offender as a juvenile with a record of violence, but that’s no excuse when he flat-out uses Gaza and Afghanistan as his supposed reasons. Even the Palestinians are calling him a criminal and saying he shouldn’t link his murder rampage with their cause. (Well, Salam Fayyad, anyway–that’s one Palestinian, though he’s never condemned Hamas or PIJ terror.)
I’m sure we’re going to read about how he was the product of the French “suburbs”–the urban areas where the Algerian immigrants are raised. But he was a petty criminal with a grudge.
He said Merah had tried to join the military but was rejected. He said Merah was also disillusioned after a string of convictions for petty crimes and after efforts to reduce his sentences through work programs failed.
“He felt rejected by the periods of detention he was handed out, and for his wish to defend France in the army. Now, he is in a process of hate,” Etelin said.
And the media are still trying to push the “lone wolf” scenario.
French authorities – like others across Europe – have long been concerned about “lone-wolf” attacks by young, Internet-savvy militants who find radical beliefs online, since they are harder to find and track.
“Lone wolves are formidable adversaries,” Gueant said.
Except I’m not buying it. He was a petty thief with a record of violence and an axe to grind.
He lost his job a few months ago and spent a lot of time alone at home watching videos on the Internet including some of gruesome Islamist beheadings of hostages, according to the prosecutor.
One woman acquaintance, interviewed on television with her face concealed, said Merah had turned “weird” in recent months, carrying a sword and showing her a video of al Qaeda executions.
He blamed everyone else for his problems, and Islamism gave him the outlet for his anger. Some in the news media are finally calling him what he was: An Islamist.
An Islamic extremist who boasted of killing seven people to strike back at France died Thursday after jumping from his window, gun in hand, in a fierce shootout with police, a French minister said.
But this CBS/AP news story doesn’t so much as identify him as a Muslim:
The French Interior minister says Mohammed Merah, the prime suspect in seven murders in and around Toulouse, died Thursday morning in a jump from an apartment window after “shooting madly” at police who raided the building.
You have to drop down past the middle of the updated on CBS to even find the word “Islam,” and here’s how it’s used:
Still, it was the first time a radical Islamic motive has been ascribed to killings in France in years.
And they won’t drop the lone wolf excuse. Look for it to be big over the next few days as people try to excuse the murderous rampage of a depraved and deviant man.