New details about the Toulose shooter: says he was protesting France's ban on veils
in public places, as well as the nation's military presence in Afghanistan and in revenge of the deaths of "Palestinian children." and he no sign of militant leanings despite being a self taught Salafi.
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Just a few weeks ago, Mohamed Merah partied at a nightclub, and an acquaintance noticed nothing out of the ordinary. Another friend said the former car body shop worker liked to talk about "cars, bikes, girls and sports."
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Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters that Merah was a self-taught Salafi Muslim who had been to Afghanistan twice and had trained in the Pakistani militant stronghold of Waziristan. He also had a long criminal record, the prosecutor said, adding that the suspected gunman's brother had been implicated in a 2007 network that sent militant fighters to Iraq.
Just before police swarmed around the apartment in the pre-dawn darkness, Merah called a French television journalist and calmly took responsibility for all of the attacks _ saying he carried them out to protest France's ban on veils in public places, the nation's military presence in Afghanistan and in revenge of the deaths of "Palestinian children."
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