Posted on 02/19/2009 1:00:54 PM PST by george76
Al-Qaida's North Africa branch claimed Wednesday it is holding hostage a senior U.N. peace envoy, his aide and four tourists kidnapped in the Sahara Desert in recent weeks.
"We announce to the general public that the mujahideen (holy warriors) reserve the right to deal with the six kidnapped according to Islamic Shariah law," the al-Qaida group said in a statement posted Wednesday ...
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
don’t call us, we’ll call you....
Keep 'em...do what you want.
(Sound of crickets)
I guess this also goes to prove: (a) that when you extend the hand of peace to these animals, that hand gets chopped off; and (b) nothing the big ZerO can do will EVER change that.
Good! Off with their heads. Nobody needs the stinkin UN anyway.
The UN will say.....................OK.
Off with their heads. Islamic Shariah law ...
I bet they wish Bush were in office now.
How much do you want to keep them?
Brilliant cartoon..perfect!
You guys want some more? We can ship you a whole bunch. You would have been better off holding camel crap hostage.
Hmmm. What WILL the U.N. do about it?
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/02/nefa_foundation_aqim_claims_ki.php
“NEFA Foundation: AQIM Claims Kidnapping of U.N. Envoy & Four European Tourists”
By Evan Kohlmann
(February 22, 2009, 11:11 PM)
www.nefafoundation.org/documents-original.html#aqimun0209
www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/nefaaqimunhostage0209.pdf
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AQIM:: Kidnapping the U.N. Envoy, his assistant and 4 European tourists February 21, 2009
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http://www.jihadica.com/new-aqim-abduction-cases/
“New AQIM abduction cases”
Hanna Rogan
February 24th, 2009 | Algeria
SNIPPET: “In mid-December 2008, UN special envoy to Niger, Robert Fowler, and his aide, Louis Guay, mysteriously disappeared while on a field trip. The fate of the two Canadians long remained shrouded in uncertainty. A Nigerian Tuareg rebel group first claimed responsibility for their abduction, but this claim was quickly retracted. In early February Canadian authorities received a video tape from unknown sources which confirmed the two diplomats were still alive, and demanded a prisoner swap for their release. Last Wednesday, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb released an online statement in which it claimed responsibility not only for the abduction of Fowler and Guay, but also that of four European tourists who disappeared from the Mali-Niger border area in late January.
The latest statement is brief and raises as many questions as it answers. It names and depicts the four tourists (one Briton, one German and two Swiss), but offers no indications of their approximate geographical whereabouts, nor on whether the six hostages are held together. The statement includes no specific demands, but states that the hostages are held as prisoners under the shari‘a law and that conditions for their release will be given at a later time.
These two recent cases resemble the kidnapping case of two Austrian tourists last year in several respects (see also here). They were abducted by AQIM elements in Tunisia in February, then taken to Mali and held there until released for a ransom in October.
First, all three cases illustrate AQIM’s extended geographical reach. “
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