France: Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah part of global jihad network

"1,800 calls to over 180 contacts in 20 different countries." Where are those contacts? Is anyone watching them? What jihad mass murders are they plotting?

"Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah 'no lone wolf,'" from the BBC, August 23 (thanks to David):

France's Le Monde newspaper says it has seen confidential documents of the police investigation into Toulouse gunman Mohamed Merah that suggest he was not working alone.

The papers showed he had made more than 1,800 calls to over 180 contacts in 20 different countries, Le Monde said.

Merah had also made several trips to the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Merah, 24, killed three soldiers and four Jewish people in March before being shot dead by police.

Le Monde's article cites confidential papers from the DCRI intelligence agency.

The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says the papers obtained by Le Monde cast light on a young man who was much more than an angry petty criminal that had "radicalised himself" - as suggested by the DCRI earlier in the investigation.

Between September 2010 and February 2011 the former garage mechanic made hundreds of calls to countries including Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Kazhakstan, Saudi Arabia, Bhutan and the UK.

Merah had become known to the intelligence services as early as 2009, after they had been following his sister, Souad, and his brother, Abdelkhadar, who are now both in police custody.

The papers show that intelligence services recorded a trip to a Salafist, or ultraconservative Sunni Islamist, school of obedience in Egypt.

In February 2011, German officials alerted French colleagues that Merah had travelled from Cairo, via Frankfurt, to Toulouse.

It was only in March 2011, after a long trip to Afghanistan, that Merah was placed under tighter surveillance.

Not tight enough.

One official quoted in the papers said Merah changed SIM cards, registered under his mother's name, frequently, and suggested the family was trying to protect him.

Merah, who himself claimed to have al-Qaeda affiliation, was also reported to have contacted one known Salafist in Toulouse and two others who recently left for Mauritania.

Merah was shot dead on 22 March after a huge manhunt culminated in a 32-hour stand-off with police at an apartment in Toulouse.

The Jewish victims included three children murdered at a school....

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France: Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah part of global jihad network

"1,800 calls to over 180 contacts in 20 different countries."

This reminds me that I've been wrong about my advocacy of executing Muslim terrorists without a trial: We should keep them alive -- at least for a while, for creative and unusual interrogation for valuable intel that could save lives.

Note:

BBC still misleads,calling Merah 'a gunman', not the jihadist murderer he was.

^They don't even call him a terrorist. What can you expect from goebbelian media like that at this point?.

Our long-time commenter PRCS agrees with the MSM and with our PC MC leadership: it's right, according to him, to continue calling these Muslim mass-murderers common criminals. As though there weren't guiding and inspiring these "common criminals" an expansionist supremacist blueprint for fanatical violence global in scope today, metastasizing as we speak, and with solid historical roots going back 1,400 years -- during which, for a full thousand of those years, Muslims were, for the same reasons as these "common criminals" as PRCS agrees to call them, launching military Blitzkrieg attacks and full-scale invasions on various parts of the West (succeeding twice in taking vast amounts of territory -- Spain in the 8th century (only won back by us after nearly 800 years of self-defensive fighting) and Byzantium in the 15th century).

From the article: "Between September 2010 and February 2011 the former garage mechanic made hundreds of calls to countries including Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Kazhakstan, Saudi Arabia, Bhutan and the UK."

Now, Islamic Egypt, Islamic Morocco, Islamic Saudi Arabia, are completely to be expected. Egypt is 87 % Muslim, Morocco is 99.9 % Muslim, and Saudi Arabia is 93 %, with its seven percent non-Muslims, all expats, most of them dirt-poor de facto slaves, ferociously repressed.

Nor are Kenya, Kazakhstan and the UK entirely unexpected. Kazakhstan is majority-Muslim and Kenya and the UK have large and aggressive Mohammedan colonies. And wherever there are Muslims, sooner or later there will be jihad plots and plotters...

Kazakhstan became Islamic by the usual violent processes during the middle ages (from circa 1043); during the period of Soviet rule, when all religion was suppressed, a large-ish chunk of the population became nonreligious and those who remained Muslim became somewhat less fanatical perforce).

In 2001, according to my Christian sourcebook of that date, 'Operation World', Kazakhstan was about 60 percent actively-identifying as Muslim, about 15 percent nonreligious (i.e secular and/ or marxist) and about 24 percent Christian, with the remainder comprising shamanists, Buddhists, and Jews.

Christians have made inroads among both Muslims and non-religious (there is a lively, growing Kazakh-speaking church, and the Bible has been translated into Kazakh

http://www.send.org/kazakh-bible-project/

and is circulating briskly);

but Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkey have been funding huge da'wa and mosque-building programs to ginger up Jihad and sharia-mindedness among the Muslims.

At present, the Kazakh authorities seem to be keeping the most zealous sharia-pushers in check; the country is not described as an Islamic state, and Islam is not the official religion, nor is sharia listed as the main source of law. But there are obviously jihad plotters in Kazakhstan, for Mr Merah to communicate with.

CIA factbook on Kazakhstan
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/kz.html

Ethnic groups - Kazakh (Qazaq) 63.1%, Russian 23.7%, Uzbek 2.8%, Ukrainian 2.1%, Uighur 1.4%, Tatar 1.3%, German 1.1%, other 4.5% (1999 census)

Religions (somewhat different breakdown from my other source; the difference is probably in where the 'nonreligious' are placed):
Muslim 47%, Russian Orthodox 44%, Protestant 2%, other 7%

As for Kenya, it is 78 percent Christian, 10 percent animist, 10 percent Muslim, and 2 percent 'other' (mostly Hindu among the Indian immigrant community). The Muslims punch 'above their weight' as always; they have demanded sharia courts. At present Kenya officially has freedom of religion and non-Muslims (mostly Christians) are well represented in government. They have a huge problem with cross-border Muslim ghazi raids into the country out of Somalia; and there are British-born jihadists lurking within the country as well.

UK...well, we all know the problems *there*, all one has to do is think of Melanie Phillips' 'Londonistan'...

But: BHUTAN???

Bhutan is officially a Buddhist state and *all* other belief-systems are strongly repressed. Its civil law is 'based on Buddhist religious law'.

The CIA factbook again:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/bt.html

Ethnic groups: Bhote 50%, ethnic Nepalese 35% (includes Lhotsampas - one of several Nepalese ethnic groups), indigenous or migrant tribes 15%

Religions: Lamaistic Buddhist 75%, Indian- and Nepalese-influenced Hinduism 25%

Note: my Christian source, Operation World (2001), relying on census data and other sources of info immediately prior to that date, gave the stats then (ten years ago) as Buddhist 72 %, Hindu 23 %, Muslim 4 %, 'traditional ethnic' [i.e. not formally Buddhist or Hindu] 0.5 %, and Christian 0.46%.

Sooo...if Muslims are not a big enough presence in Bhutan to even warrant a mention in the CIA factbook on the country for 2012, and if they comprised 4 percent according to my other source of information (and Bhutan had, in 2001, ruthlessly expelled a lot of its Nepali population - whether Hindu, Muslim or Christian - out of the country, so I doubt they would show much consideration to the easily-offending 'feelings' of Mohammedans). what on *earth* is going on subterraneously in **Bhutan**, that Mohammed Merah is making phonecalls to somebody - presumably a jihad-minded Muslim - **there**??

Memo to the Bhutanese government: if you've got any Muslims, boot 'em out. You don't have many and you do not want any more. Your repression, harassment and persecution/ ethnic cleansing of Christians and HIndus is one thing - it really is a violation of human rights, and is cruel and unnecessary - but evicting Muslims is quite another thing, and really would promote the common good of all other Bhutanese.

Mohamed Merah was a devout Muslim - point-blank to the sweet little Jewish kid

The sadist Allah, 9:5 "Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them"

The United States Pentagon and Congress better this thing right within the next 3 months or it may never happen.

The United States Pentagon and Congress better this thing right within the next 3 months or it may never happen.

Is there something I missed? This is like citing the obvious as 'Holy Writ'.

Is there something I missed? This is like citing the obvious as 'Holy Writ'.

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