France In the southern city of Toulouse, police besieged the home of a lone gunman allegedly behind three separate attacks that led to seven deaths and ignited a wave of fear and anguish across France. The suspect, identified as Mohammed Merah, of Algerian descent, is believed to be the scooter-riding man who gunned down a teacher, his two sons and another child at a Jewish school and, in two earlier attacks, fatally shot three ethnic-Arab French soldiers. Police say 24-year-old Merah claimed ties to al-Qaeda and is known to have trained for a time at extremist camps in Pakistan's Waziristan tribal area. Merah report-
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