The video footage

Shortly after Mohamed Merah killed four people at a Toulouse Jewish school in his third and final attack, French prosecutors disclosed that the gunman had filmed his attacks, which occurred on March 11, 15 and 19 in the southwestern French cities of Toulouse and Montauban. Prosecutors said the 23-year-old gunman wore a miniature camera strapped to his chest.

Following Merah’s death after a 32-hour police siege, the Al Jazeera TV station confirmed that it had received video footage along with a letter in poorly written French.

The images were contained on a USB key, sent with the letter, to the Paris bureau of the Qatar-based TV network. The letter claimed the killings were carried out in the name of al Qaeda, according to Zied Tarrouche, the station's Paris bureau chief.

Al Jazeera executives however decided not to broadcast the explicit footage - which they say shows an edited version of the attacks in chronological order - following calls from French President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as the families of some of the victims and the gunman.

According to the French weekly magazine, Le Point, there was another USB key in Merah’s pocket at the time of his death. The contents of the second USB key have not been disclosed.

[link to www.france24.com]

Really, so who sent the footage to AJazeera...normally they get these "informant footages" which they "can not independently verify the source and authenticity" and air them as propaganda - was this too hot for them or is their little scheme just falling apart?
What was on the second USB stick? Something incriminating to some of the people that were on the scene making sure he doesn't survive this stand-off?