I saw this and I just had to laugh.
Paris (CNN) — The leader of an Islamist group whose members were targeted in a series of French police raids denies any contact with Toulouse gunman Mohammed Merah, lawyer Philippe Missamou said Saturday.
The leader of the Forsane Alizza group, Mohammed Achamlane, was among 19 people arrested Friday over alleged connections to radical Islam, Missamou said.
The raids came a week after Merah, who killed seven people in a series of attacks, was shot dead after a long siege in the southwestern city of Toulouse.
French media reports suggested Merah had developed connections with the pro-al Qaeda group, which has a cluster of followers in Toulouse.
Forsane Alizza was outlawed in January for encouraging French citizens to travel to Afghanistan to fight jihad.
Missamou told CNN he had last spoken to Achamlane on Monday.
At this time, Achamlane told him that the group had not had contact with Merah, and that it had nothing to do with Merah’s killings in Toulouse, Missamou said.
Achamlane said the group did not support armed combat, the attorney said.
via Lawyer: French Islamist group had no link with Toulouse gunman – CNN.com.
Yeah, sure they don’t. They are just a bunch of misunderstood Muslims. Yeah, right, sure they are.
Good on France for recognizing the threat of Al-Qaeda terrorism. The war on terrorism is more than Afghanistan and Iran, it is anywhere that these thugs are allowed to fester. Freedom loving Nations should always be on guard for these thugs and be ready, at all times, to put them out of their own misery.