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Perhaps especially because Champ wanted it delayed until after November...
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08/27/2012 17:52 Comments ||
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#1 - when you lead from behind, your backseat driving input lacks a lot of influence. I'm sure the One doesn't want by word or implication paint himself as an overbearing evil imperialist dictating the fate of other nations. Isn't that what he despises in the American record of international relations? /sarc off
[Jerusalem Post] Merah made some 2,000 phone calls in 2010-2011, to countries in North Africa and the Middle East, new information shows.
So the man had a lot of friends...
Five months after an Islamist murdered seven people in southwest La Belle France, French media revealed over the weekend that the terrorist likely did not act alone but was probably had an Islamist/Middle East connection.
Last March, Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old French-Algerian, killed three soldiers and four Jews (a rabbi, his two children and another girl) in three attacks in Toulouse ...lies on the banks of the River Garonne, half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in La Belle France... He also maimed five people.
He was killed after a siege of his apartment by the French National Police's RAID elite anti-terrorist unit, after an investigation by the DCRI, the country's counter-espionage and counter-terrorism intelligence agency.
According to the new information, Merah made some 2,000 phone calls during a period of several months in 2010-2011, to countries in North Africa and the Middle East.
According to a secret DCRI document dating from that period, Merah normally had no cellphone, and when he had one, it was monitored by the security services. So he used, for his "professional" purposes, cellphones belonging to relatives, including his mother. All the calls were to such countries as Algeria, Israel, Afghanistan and Iraq.
A few weeks ago, French media reported that Merah had been under surveillance and identified as "of interest" by the French security services since at least 2009. He was a "privileged target" of the DCRI for his relationships with radical Islamists in Toulouse, which included his brother Abdelkader.
The DCRI documents classified as "secret-defense" were declassified and made public on August 3 by the Interior Ministry and then forwarded to the Justice Ministry. The daily newspaper Le Gay Pareeien published the essential information drawn from their 23 pages.
The report said: "The young jihadi could come back [from his frequent and long trips to the Middle East and Afghanistan where he was trained by al-Qaeda] and be instructed to commit armed attacks."
One document qualified Merah as "an individual with a heavy past of delinquency going toward radicalization" and as "a direct menace."
"Damming and disturbing" were the newspaper's words to describe the declassified documents, enough to put into question "the lone wolf theory" put forward at the time of the attacks by Bernard Squarcini, then boss of the DCRI.
"Why then wasn't he placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... before committing his series of crimes," one of the victims' lawyers asked La Belle France 2 television.
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Weighing the value of sustained intelligence collection and reporting against the potential of the source actually undertaking an attack is very risky business. MAJ Nidal Hasan is but one example.
Pär Norling, group leader of the Sweden Democrats (SD) in Bollnäs, told national broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT), "Ban Islam in Sweden and deport those who persist in believing in the religion."
The neo-nazi Swedish Resistance Movement marched in the central Swedish town of Bollnäs earlier this summer, after a controversial rape case had rocked the community. On Saturday they marched again and anti-racist protests were held nearby.
Swedish Democratic Norling said he does not approve of Nazism, but mainly considers it a by-product of immigration. He also agrees with the neo-nazis that Islam has no place in Sweden.
He said, "That can exist elsewhere but in Sweden it doesn't fit in."
When asked what should be done with those who still want to practice the religion, despite it being banned, Norling responded, "Then the solution is deportation."
This is the second time in days that Swedish Democratic politicians have benn in similar controversies. On Friday, the Swedish Democrat Sven-Erik Karlsson remarked on the harassment Somalian families have been suffering from teens in the southern Swedish town Forserum, saying that all Swedish municipalities should have gangs to harass refugees.
After the uproar that followed, Karlsson resigned his position on Saturday.
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Pär Norling, group leader of the Sweden Democrats (SD) in Bollnäs, told national broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT), "Ban Islam in Sweden and deport those who persist in believing in the religion." 
