Mohamed Merah: French Police

Presidential Election Dept: In a drama gripping France five weeks before a presidential election, some 300 police have laid siege since Wednesday to the five-storey house in a suburb of the prosperous industrial town in a bid to capture the shooter, Mohamed Merah, according to Montreal Gazette. France's elite RAID commando unit detonated three explosions just before midnight on Wednesday, flattening the main door of the building and blowing a hole in the wall, after it became clear Merah did not mean to keep a promise to turn himself in and french police tried to flush out a 24-year old gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al- Qaida, with explosions and gunfire heard outside his apartment on the second day of a siege in the southern French city of Toulouse. The French citizen of Algerian origin told negotiators he had killed three soldiers last week and four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday to avenge the deaths of Palestinian children and because of French army involvement in Afghanistan. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.