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Thanks for the update.Updated: French gunman says he will surrender later in day
The suspect in a series of shooting attacks in France, a self-declared Islamist militant besieged by police, has declared he will surrender later today, Interior Minister Claude Gueant said.
"He is currently in a dialogue with a police official and he says, I do not know if he is telling the truth, that he he will hand himself in later in the day," the minister said, in an interview with the BFM-TV news network.
Early this morning French police officers exchanged gunfire with the man as he was besieged in a house in Tolouse. The man is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in three attacks.
Mr Gueant said three police officers were injured in the raid on the house.
Mr Gueant said the man is 24 years old, of French nationality and says that "he belongs to al Qaida".
He said the suspect "wants to take revenge for Palestinian children" killed in the Middle East, and is angry at the French military for its operations abroad.
Mr Gueant said the man's brother was arrested.
The man was known to authorities for having spent time in Afghanistan and Pakistan, said Mr Gueant who confirmed the man's brother was arrested
Updated: French gunman says he will surrender later in day - timesofmalta.com
So, I wonder why he targeted French soldiers who are Muslim.
Islamic terrorists kill more Muslims than any western country could ever dream of. To this typical AQ lunatic, these men would have been traitors to the faith.
Here's just a couple of days worth:
2012.03.20 (Karbala, Iraq) - Sunni bombers send thirteen Shia pilgrims straight to Allah
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2012.03.20 (Baghdad, Iraq) - A Shahid suicide bomber murders five civilians
2012.03.20 (Hilla, Iraq) - Mujahideen detonate a bomb outside a cafe, incinerating two
patrons.
2012.03.20 (Fallujah, Iraq) - A pregnant woman and her 6-year-old child are dismantled by a Jihad bomb attack on their home.
2012.03.19 (Ahsanpur, Pakistan) - A 19-year-old woman is shot to death by her family on suspicion of a sexual affair.
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