AMERICA Ski, Snow, Resorts News, Mar 22, 2012

Sierra Snow Spots: Our Picks San Francisco Chronicle (blog) Heavenly's long intermediate runs, often with great views of Tahoe, make it one of the best ski parks for intermediate skiers in America. Double-grooming the runs overnight, at a huge cost, separates their cruisers from anywhere else. See all stories on this topic »

Alpine Meadows Ski Resort Hosts Ability Challenge Starting March 27, 2012 Yahoo! Sports During the challenge, the participants will attempt to ski and snowboard their way down the mountain and through a series of tasks. The money raised during the challenge will go toward the Disabled Sports USA Far West organization (DSUSAFW). See all stories on this topic »

Utah's Ski Butlers named national Small Business of the Year finalist Salt Lake Tribune Founded in 2004, Ski Butlers has about 80 employees serving skiers at more than 30 resorts in Utah, Colorado, California, Wyoming and British Columbia. Taylor Uzzell, assistant manager at the US Chamber, said the selection process for finalists started ... See all stories on this topic »

This spring break a bit of a bust, merchants claim Vancouver Sun The skiing is great, the snow's deep, but businesses say the crowds just aren't there this year. "It's pretty dead. There's hardly anyone around," Ingrid's Village Cafe owner Nancy MacConnachie said Wednesday. "We normally ramp up for spring break. See all stories on this topic »

Lifts tickets for next season on sale PlanetSKI.eu This season still has a long way to go but Vail Resorts has just put on sale lift passes for 2012/13. With the recent purchase of Kirkwood in California another resort is now on the pass. Buying a lift ticket in North America is a complex and costly ... See all stories on this topic » PlanetSKI.eu

Going for the steep runs brings out that inner skier Albuquerque Journal (subscription) 22, 2012 Tweet Cliff walls lined the chute below my skis. Clouds whirled overhead, snow bulleting in big flakes and filling in ski tracks almost as fast as we could make them. It was day two of a clinic at Whistler Blackcomb resort in British Columbia, ... See all stories on this topic »

Utah Skiers Attempt to Ski State's 14 Resorts in One Day | First ... Salt Lake City, UT - Ski Utah has joined with a group of local skiers to attempt to ski all 14 Utah resorts in a single day tomorrow. The group approach... www.firsttracksonline.com/.../utah-skiers-attempt-to-ski-14-res...

Summer in March has New England skiers and resorts bidding ... In the News ... Summer in March has New England skiers and resorts bidding farewell to the slopes ... the 80s had New England skiers dodging dirt patches and exposed rocks as melting snow ... Colorado Ski Country USA estimated that the number of visits at its resorts in the .... Help Barack stand up for working Americans. www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQAtj0NSS_story.html

Lake Tahoe Deaths: Two Skiers Die On Slopes The owner of China Peak Mountain Resort northeast of Fresno says a 30-year-old snowboarder was killed Sunday after falling head first in an open ski area. ... Get Breaking News by Email ... Tim Cohee said about 5 feet of snowfell in the Sierra National Forest over the .... Americans Elect: The Future ofU.S. Democracy ... www.huffingtonpost.com/.../lake-tahoe-deaths_n_1360568.ht...

VIDEO: The History of USA Ski Resorts | 1960'-68' Skier Visits Went ... The history of ski resorts in North America is little known by most skiers in theUS and Canada. This video, which sounds like it was made in the 1950s, givesus ... unofficialnetworks.com/video-history-usa-ski-resorts-196068-...

Sunny Skies and Plenty of Skis at the OTS 2012/2013 Ski Test ... Find a Resort. Canada. USA. South America. Europe. Oceania ... open up some closed terrain for us on Thursday to test out the fat skis on deeper, softer snow. www.onthesnow.com/.../sunny-skies-and-plenty-of-skis-at-the...

Avalanche near Haines, Alaska leaves one skier dead, one seriously ... From the Anchorage Daily News :-. A heli-skiing guide died Tuesday morning in an avalanche northwest of Haines, according to Alaska State Troopers. ...One of those covered in snow was 35-year-old Telluride, Colo. resident Robert Liberman, who died ... 400+ American Ski Resorts in 4 countries. ... Find Us& Follow Us ... www.j2ski.com/ski-chat-forum/posts/list/12345.page

Artist helps skiers chart their course - Video on msnbc.com Jim Niehues photographs ski trails to create trail maps as integral to skiing assnow. ... skiers are loving the snow which is making for a great spring break for a lot of lucky families on the slopes. which brings us to the the work of an artist ... he is one of a kind in ski areas across north america . nbc's kevin tibbles has the story ... video.msnbc.msn.com/nightly-news/46753638

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FRANCE Killer News, Mar 22, 2012

French police: Killer 'came out firing with extreme violence'
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
By Sarah DiLorenzo and Johanna Decorse AP French special intervention police officers leave the area in Toulouse, France Thursday March 22, 2012 where an Islamic extremist died Thursday after jumping from his window, gun in hand, in a fierce shootout ...
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Qaeda killer of francE New York Post Soon afterward, the United States washed its hands of him and “put him on the first plane headed to France,'' Molins said. Once inFrance, he was allowed to live freely in Toulouse, despite his known radical views. AP TRAGIC: Radical killer Mohammed ... See all stories on this topic »

Explosions Heard Near Suspected Killer's Home in France
Voice of America (blog)
French news media say three loud explosions were heard Wednesday near a home of a man suspected in the shooting deaths of seven people, including three children and a teacher at a Jewish school. French police have tried several times to storm the ...
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Suspected Toulouse killer jumps to death during police raid
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
(JTA) -- Mohammed Merah, the suspected attacker of a Jewish school in Toulouse, jumped to his death from his apartment window during a police raid on his home in that southwestern French city. Merah, 23, and police had been engaged in a standoff for ...
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Police official says suspected killer in France is dead
Richmond Times Dispatch
TOULOUSE, France — A police official says that the suspect in a three-attack killing rampage who claims links to al-Qaida is dead. The official, Didier Martinez of the Unite SGP police union, says the news was announced Thursday on the police radio ...
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French intelligence slammed for failure to stop al-Qaeda killer Mohamed Merah National Post By Charles Onians French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to crack down on terrorist websites Thursday amid questions over why France's intelligence service had failed to deal with petty criminal turned alleged jihadist serial killer Mohamed Merah. See all stories on this topic »

National Post

French intelligence under fire for Qaeda killer 'failings' (video)
Edmonton Journal
PARIS - The French government went on the defensive Thursday after its intelligence services were accused of having failed to keep track of petty criminal turned jihadist serial killer Mohamed Merah. al-Qaida militant Merah, 23, died in a police ...
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A Killing Spree in France Ends with a Barrage of Gunfire TIME (blog) By Bruce Crumley | March 22, 2012 | + Nearly two weeks of terror in France came to an end Thursday, when an assault by elite police forces left self-declared al-Qaeda member and avowed serial killer Mohammed Merah dead in the southwest city Toulouse. See all stories on this topic »

TIME (blog)

French school killer stuns friends
Sky News Australia
French school killer stuns friends Updated: 17:36, Thursday March 22, 2012 Just a few weeks ago, Mohamed Merah partied at a nightclub, and a friend noticed nothing out of the ordinary. Another friend said the former panel beater liked to talk about ...
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Face of french school killer revealed as siege continues
Herald.ie
By Sarah DiLorenzo, in Toulouse The serial killer holed up in a Frenchapartment said he wanted to "die with weapons in his hands" today as the stand-off entered a second day. Police said they were still hoping to take the gunman alive, ...
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Police gun down Toulouse killer Mohammed Merah as he leaps from window with ...
The Australian
Image Video Video < Prev of 3 Next > Scooter led to Toulouse suspect Toulouse suspect's Kandahar prison escape THE confessed killer of seven people in southern France died in a ferocious gun battle with police commandos last night after the Interior ...
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Toulouse murderer goes down in a hail of police fire The Express Tribune France's chief anti-terror prosecutor, Francois Molins, had earlier described Merah as a cold-blooded killer with no remorse. “He expressed no regret apart from not having had enough time to kill more victims and even boasted of having brought France ... See all stories on this topic »

The Express Tribune

Mohamed Merah Dies in French Standoff's Gory End Daily Beast Tracy McNicoll on the story that brought France to a halt. After a 32-hour standoff, and an extremely violent five-minute firefight, Mohamed Merah is dead. The suspect is believed to have been the Scooter Killer, the motorcycle-riding gunman who killed ... See all stories on this topic »

Daily Beast

As police besiege a killer, France's politicians debate race, religion and... Globe and Mail After a massive police siege converged on the man who boasted that he had committed a string of slayings and “brought France to its knees,” French leaders struggled to understand how an apparently well-trained Islamic terrorist had gone unnoticed ... See all stories on this topic »

Globe and Mail

Siege over as French authorities announce alleged killer Mohammed Merah dies
The Daily Telegraph
A TV grab released by French TV shows serial killer suspect Mohammed Merah. Picture: AFP Source: AFP A firefight erupted on a property suspected to hold the gunman responsible for the shootings in France. A MAN suspected of killing seven people in ...
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Explosions heard at apartment of suspected Toulouse killer Mohammad Merah GlobalPost French special forces soldiers used a series of controlled explosions at the apartment of suspected Toulouse killer, Mohammad Merah to try to "wear him down" psychologically. Police and other members of the emergency services are on the scene. See all stories on this topic »

GlobalPost

'Cruel' school killer videotaped his spree
Independent Online
By Reuters TOULOUSE, France: The man who shot dead three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school was a cruel killer who filmed his carnage, France'sinterior minister said as the country prepared to hold a silent tribute to the victims yesterday.
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Serial killer reveals why he struck at Toulouse school
The Independent
The suspected killer who attempted to "bring France to its knees" was still defying a besieging army of police officers early today in a ground-floor flat in a quiet suburb of Toulouse. Three loud explosions, probably stun grenades, illuminated the ...
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Siege over as French authorities announce alleged killer Mohammed Merah is dead
The Daily Telegraph
Siege over ... police officers stand by in Toulouse, France / Pic: AP Source: The Daily Telegraph A firefight erupted on a property suspected to hold the gunman responsible for the shootings in France. A MAN suspected of killing seven people in France ...
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Toulouse killer 'wants to die' The Sun The 18-month-old YouTube footage shown on French TV features him driving a BMW and ends with the cold-blooded killer grinning broadly into the camera. Merah slaughtered rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, his sons Gavriel and Aryeh, six and three, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Sun

French police in standoff with suspected serial killer
NECN
(NECN/NBC News: Jim Maceda) - Three explosions have rocked a Frenchapartment building in Tolouse where a suspected serial killer has been holed up on Wednesday. The standoff with the man suspected of killing at least seven people in France started ...
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Gunman dies in hail of bullets as French siege ends The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A. Two police commandos were injured in the operation - a dramatic climax to a siege which riveted the world after the killings shookFrance a month before a presidential election. “At the moment when a video probe was sent into the bathroom, the killer ... See all stories on this topic »

The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.

Toulouse Killer Dies as French Police Seige Ends
Novinite.com
French emergency services at the scene following a raid on a house to arrest an al-Qaeda-linked suspect in a string of deadly shootings in Toulouse, Franceon March 2012. Photo by EPA/BGNES The man suspected of murdering seven people had been killed by ...
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Toulouse killer suspect dead as siege ends euronews The gunman suspected of killing seven people in south westFrance in the last two weeks is now dead. Mohammed Merah, 23, was reportedly shot as he jumped from a window, firing on commandos who had stormed the apartment block in Toulouse where he had ... See all stories on this topic »

euronews

Killer trained with Taliban
Montreal Gazette
For Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman suspected of killing four Jews and three Muslim soldiers in southwestern France, the road to radicalization ran from a delinquent childhood in Toulouse to Kandahar in Afghanistan. Merah, 24, who was holed up in a ...
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Report: French Woman Told Police of Killer's Jihad and Al Qaeda ... By Algemeiner Staff In an interview with the French newspaper Le Telegramme, a French woman explains how Mohammed Merah, the man who admitted to killing 7 people in the last two weeks and died Thursday after jumping out of a window during a standoff ... Algemeiner.com

Three blasts rock suspected killer's home in France | The News Tribe By Daniel Clark Paris: At least three loud explosions were heard near a home of a man suspected in the killings of seven people, including three children and a teacher at a Jewish school, media reported on Wednesday. According to reportsFrench police ... The News Tribe

Slayer of Seven Killed In Police Raid | Global Spin | TIME.com By Bruce Crumley Nearly two weeks of terror in France came to an end Thursday, when an assault by elite police forces left self-declared al-Qaeda member and avowed serial killer Mohammed Merah dead in the southwest city Toulouse. Global Spin

French Politics: The Killer Is Dead By Arthur Goldhammer Arthur Goldhammer, the originator of this blog, has been a student and observer of French politics since 1968. In that time I've translated more than 100 books from the French, including Tocqueville's Democracy in America. I chair the seminar ... French Politics

Muslim Terrorist Jew-Killer Mohammed Merah Dies in Gun Battle ... By 1389 Michael Coren on France's neo-Nazi Jew killer (h/t: Bare Naked Islam) Uploaded by SDAMatt2a on Mar 21, 2012 The MSM and the Left screamed “Nazis!”, and he most certainly is, but it also turns out the mohammad coefficient on this. 1389 Blog - Counterjihad!

SGT Says: French Mass Murderer By Bunkermeister Recently there was a shooting at a Jewish school in France. A man walked up to the front of the school and just started shooting people, adults and children. One child was only there years old. Police and EMS responded to the location. SGT Says

France's #Toulouse killings and the Salafist-Far Right alliance | Al ... By Max Blumenthal As I write this, the standoff continues in Toulouse, France between Frenchpolice and Mohammed Merah, the alleged murderer of several Muslim Frenchsoldiers and Jews. One of the most salient facts about the killer, a professed Islamic ... Al Akhbar English

Verdict on Toulouse: French Incompetence « Commentary Magazine By D. G. Myers Mohammad Merah, the self-confessed murderer of Jewish schoolchildren andFrench soldiers, died while jumping from his bathroom window in a torrent of police gunfire around 11:30 this morning in Toulouse. “This man doesn't interest me,” ... Commentary Magazine

Why We Look to Distinguish Robert Bales from Mohammed Merah ... By By HARVEY MORRIS As the presumed Toulouse serial killer Mohammed Merah died during a police raid on Thursday, France was searching for the true motivation behind his murderous rampage. In a sombre tribute to three French soldiers shot dead in the streets ... IHT Rendezvous

Danish media on Toulouse jihadist: 'Hunting a French Breivik ... By Nicolai Sennels Toulouse, EB-210312, Hunting French Breivik.jpg. Ekstrabladet news paper: Hunting a French Breivik. An isolated extremist's revenge against society - thekiller thinks he is God, says criminologist. Toulouse, JP-210312, Europes extreme ... Jihad Watch

Qaeda killer of francE - New York Post The Muslim fanatic who cold-bloodedly assassinated three young children and a rabbi in a southern French city had been held by US forces in Afghanistan ... www.nypost.com/.../qaeda_killer_of_france_w7yE3AJviXB2...

Hunt for serial killer: Police try to force surrender of 'Islamic warrior ... FRENCH police set off three loud explosions outside an apartment building where a man suspected of killing seven people has been holed up. www.news.com.au/world/.../story-e6frfkyi-1226306418361

The Associated Press: French hunt school killer, suspect neo-Nazi ties French hunt school killer, suspect neo-Nazi ties. By JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press – 21 minutes ago. TOULOUSE, France (AP) — Police searched southern ... www.google.com/.../ALeqM5jTKvgAX72FL2ebpfgpWWxH8...

Suspected French serial killer under siege - Europe - Al Jazeera ... Alleged killer of seven people continues his hold-out into 17th hour as police work to negotiate his surrender. www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/.../20123214219458757.htm...

France killer 'wore extreme sports video camera': minister | GMA ... PARIS — The man who went on a shooting spree in a French Jewish school may have recorded his crime with an extreme sports video camera strapped to his ... www.gmanetwork.com/.../france-killer-wore-extreme-sports-v...

Sky News: French school killer stuns friends Just before police swarmed around the apartment in the pre-dawn darkness, Merah called a French television journalist and calmly took responsibility for killing ... www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=731729&vId=

French Police Corner Suspected Toulouse Killer Claiming Al-Qaeda ... From Yahoo! News: French police have pinned down a self-declared jihadist believed to be the killer of seven people in southwestern France in the past 10 days ... news.yahoo.com/french-police-corner-suspected-toulouse-kill...

Siege Of French Gunman Into Second Day - Sky News If it is Mohammed Merah and he is the al Qaeda killer French police have been hunting, then many viewers glued to the live TV coverage of the siege won't be ... news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16192930

As police besiege a killer, France's politicians debate race, religion ... In the wake of the atrocity in Toulouse, presidential candidates seize on the suspect's religion and immigrant background. www.theglobeandmail.com/.../article2377404/?...

French police trap suspected killer French police have laid siege to an apartment block where a self-declared al- Qaeda militant who claimed a series of deadly attacks on troops and Jewish ... www.smh.com.au/.../french-police-trap-suspected-killer-2012...

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