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Countering reports that the suspect in seven killings in France was one of hundreds of men who escaped from an Afghan prison in 2008, Afghan officials said Wednesday that a man by the same name had indeed escaped then, but was a citizen of Afghanistan, not France.
The suspect has been identified in French media reports as Mohammad Merah. The Afghan authorities said that a Mohammad Merah was arrested on Dec. 19, 2007, and convicted of planting bombs in and around the southern city of Kandahar, which is the area where the Taliban movement began.
“All I can say is that we have this guy Mohammed Merah in our records, but he’s an Afghan citizen,” said Brig. Gen. Abdul Raziq, the police chief of Kandahar Province. “He’s certainly not French.”
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
Sky new are saying he has told police he will surrender late tonight-which makes me wonder what the hell is he doing inside the house?
Originally posted by 1ibl2ibs
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
Sky new are saying he has told police he will surrender late tonight-which makes me wonder what the hell is he doing inside the house?
My concern is that he wants to take out as many people with him as he can. He could be wiring as much as possible to explode.
Originally posted by SloAnPainful
Originally posted by 1ibl2ibs
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
Sky new are saying he has told police he will surrender late tonight-which makes me wonder what the hell is he doing inside the house?
My concern is that he wants to take out as many people with him as he can. He could be wiring as much as possible to explode.
...and the French are letting him do it...
-SAP-
Merah has spent considerable time in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Gueant said. Merah was sent back from Afghanistan to France by the U.S. Army, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said in Toulouse Wednesday. He said Afghan police had checked Merah's identification during a traffic stop, and as a result he was handed over to the U.S. Army, which then put him on board the first plane heading to France.
But a senior U.S. military official gave a different version from the French prosecutor about what happened to the suspect in Afghanistan.
The senior U.S. military official told the CNN contributor Fran Townsend that the French shooting suspect was stopped by Afghan forces who tried to turn him over to the U.S. military. The U.S. directed them to hand Merah to French forces since he was a citizen of their country. He was given over the French military by the Afghans and the French military decided to return him to France, according to the source.
Originally posted by 1ibl2ibs
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
Sky new are saying he has told police he will surrender late tonight-which makes me wonder what the hell is he doing inside the house?
My concern is that he wants to take out as many people with him as he can. He could be wiring as much as possible to explode.
Originally posted by Lord Jules
999, turn it upside down you get 666!
edit on 21-3-2012 by Lord Jules because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by lacrimaererum
15.54 Prosecutor Francois Molins said the US army previously sent the Toulouse gunman back to France after he was arrested in Afghanistan. Afghan police detained Mohammed Merah and then handed him over to the US army "who put him on the first plane headed to France," Mr Molins said.
www.telegraph.co.uk...