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French Hostage in Algeria Is Beheaded in New Video
nytimes.com ^ | 9/24/2014 | RUKMINI CALLIMACHISEPT

Posted on 09/24/2014 10:25:51 AM PDT by Justaham

A French tourist captured in North Africa by a group aligned with the Islamic State is seen beheaded in a video circulated on Wednesday, according to SITE Intelligence, which tracks jihadist groups.

The Frenchman — Hervé Gourdel, a 55-year-old mountaineering guide from Nice — was abducted in Algeria on Sunday by the terrorist group, known as Jund al-Khilafah. Mr. Gourdel had arrived only a day before on a trip to go hiking in Algeria’s northern mountains.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: algeria; beheading; france; frenchhostage; globaljihad; gourdel; hostages; isis; jizya
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To: Rodamala

Maybe W has an FR account?


21 posted on 09/24/2014 10:46:49 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: sagar

Yeah right.


22 posted on 09/24/2014 10:48:05 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: longfellow

Oui! Le `decrapitation’ was not in zee tour guide, mon Dieu!


23 posted on 09/24/2014 10:50:10 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice

I would sue the booking agent for that trip.


24 posted on 09/24/2014 10:52:11 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Justaham

25 posted on 09/24/2014 11:09:09 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Justaham

As bad as I feel for the guy and his family, this is clearly Darwin at work.


26 posted on 09/24/2014 11:14:04 AM PDT by Lucky2 (Obama is a limp wristed puke)
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To: b4its2late
Of all the places to go hiking in the world, the Frenchman chooses Algeria?

I went on vacation in Algeria once. I was in Djanet, a small oasis town a couple hours by jet south of Algiers. There are some great climbing mountains with lots of pre-historic cave paintings and things to see. We traveled by camel (and on foot) for about 8 days.

27 posted on 09/24/2014 11:18:02 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Genoa

It is so simple. The exact amount to pay will be determined by the beheading council... I mean the Shariah council. The council may still want to take your wife and daughters to the local auction market, but you may get them back for an extra fee.


28 posted on 09/24/2014 11:28:39 AM PDT by sagar
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To: Justaham

What are these people thinking that go to these countries for a “vacation” or “adventure”? Sometime you just f’up.


29 posted on 09/24/2014 11:34:21 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: sagar

Indeed... ISIS mostly recruits amongst Amish, don’t we know?... and Marine recruiters should stay out of Christian schools.


30 posted on 09/24/2014 11:36:33 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: b4its2late

Indeed. The french race Paris Dakar is regularly interupted in those parts because the French DGSE detects threats of kidnapping. Only the lone adventurers do not get the warnings apparently.

This hicker is probably thought to be a French spy, so, there.


31 posted on 09/24/2014 11:38:57 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: sagar

Most Muslims do not behead infidels. Islam is peaceful as are Muslims. It would all stop if Zionists go back and return Muslim lands.

In a pigs eye!


32 posted on 09/24/2014 11:48:55 AM PDT by wita
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To: Justaham

why video?

Why not throw it over the wall of the French Embassy?


33 posted on 09/24/2014 12:13:35 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: b4its2late

Algeria was French-controlled for a long time


34 posted on 09/24/2014 12:14:00 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Justaham

Sounds like workplace violence...


35 posted on 09/24/2014 12:19:05 PM PDT by GOPJ ("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants" - Albert Camus)
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To: sagar
Islam is peaceful as are Muslims.

That statement would be true if you confined it to Moslem traders working the Indian Ocean and the Java and Arafura Seas 600 years ago.

But the average emir in northwestern India wouldn't even get out of bed on a day when he didn't feel up to killing 10,000 Hindus. No, really -- ask any non-Moslem Indian. They have long memories of the millions of people the Arabs mass-murdered back in the Middle Ages.

36 posted on 09/24/2014 12:21:10 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: Travis McGee

excellent

Mind if I steal it?


37 posted on 09/24/2014 12:21:19 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Travis McGee

BFL


38 posted on 09/24/2014 12:30:09 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: longfellow

wonder if he had trip insurance. wonder if the airline fills the empty seat on the scheduled return flight.


39 posted on 09/24/2014 1:00:52 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: GeronL

Oh yeah, that’s right. They shoulda kept it.


40 posted on 09/24/2014 1:01:41 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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