Toulouse, France – French school shooting suspect Mohamed Merah was jailed for bombings in Afghanistan in 2007, but escaped months later in a mass prison break organized by Taliban insurgents, a top Afghan prison official said on Wednesday.
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Merah, a French citizen of Algerian origin, is suspected of killing seven people in the name of the al Qaeda militant network, including three children at a Jewish school in southwestern France.
Afghan security forces detained Merah on December 19, 2007, and he was sentenced to three years in jail for planting bombs in the southern province of Kandahar, the Taliban’s birthplace, Kandahar prison chief Ghulam Faruq said, citing prison documents.
Merah escaped along with up to 1,000 prisoners, including 400 Taliban insurgents, during an attack on southern Afghanistan’s main Sarposa Prison in June 2008, when the Taliban blew apart the main gate with a big truck bomb.
The high-security prison, on Kandahar’s southern outskirts, has separate compounds for ordinary criminals and inmates being held for political and insurgency-related offences. Merah was likely in the political section, prison sources said.
I’d love to know how France let him in the country
So those of us on VIN saying it was al Qaeda were correct all along.
What plans are there if chas v’sholom someone plans an attack on a day school or yeshiva here in the U.S. Money is no0t available and we ask chas v’sholem for the names and pray for moshiach. Security cost money , plain money