School stand off

About 300 police officers surrounded an apartment in the south of France on Wednesday, trying to coax a man whom authorities called a self-styled al Qaeda jihadist to surrender after a series of shootings that left seven people dead.

Soon after special operations police mounted their raid in Toulouse at 3:30 a.m., shots rang out from inside, wounding two officers, police said.

The man later threw a handgun out the window, but he has other guns, Interior Minister Claude Gueant said.

As the standoff stretched to its sixth hour, Gueant said he expected the suspect to give himself up in the afternoon.

"The suspect told me -- and I hope he told me the truth -- that he will surrender in the afternoon," Gueant said.

But the suspect later broke off communications with the police, Gueant told reporters.

A police source named the suspect as Mohammed Merah. The source asked not to be named because he is not authorized to give the name to the media.

Gueant said Merah had a car containing more weapons near his apartment.

The 24-year-old suspect is accused of killing seven people in the last 10 days: a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school on Monday, and three soldiers of north African origin who had recently returned from Afghanistan in two earlier incidents.

As the siege went on, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he had met with Muslim and Jewish leaders and assured them "that terrorism cannot destroy our national community."
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It turns out that al Qaeda was responsible for the school shooting in France that killed 3 kids there were also behind two other attacks. This brings up more question like is al Qaeda planning another big attack and if so where. The man that was responsible for the shooting was killed in a hotel room in France.