Murdered: Edwin Dyer as seen in a video released by
his kidnappers in February
Posted on 06/03/2009 11:53:27 AM PDT by yankeedame
A Briton kidnapped in North Africa has been murdered, reportedly by beheading, by Al Qaeda terrorists after demands for the release of fundamentalist cleric Abu Qatada...
The 60-year-old Briton is said to have been killed on Sunday...by Al Qaeda ahead of Obama's speech in... Cairo today.
Murdered: Edwin Dyer as seen in a video released by
his kidnappers in February
The statement...said they 'killed Dyer on May 31, finding that Britain...does not... care for its citizens'.
It added: 'The British captive was killed so that he, and...the British state, may taste a portion of what innocent Muslims taste...at the hands of the Crusader and Jewish coalition..."
[snip]
Mr Dyer was abducted four months ago while attending a music festival as a tourist in Niger...
...after a deadline set for the release of Qatada from prison in Britain was not met by the government.The radical cleric has been named as Bin Laden's 'Ambassador to Europe'.
Edwin Dyer Edwin Dyer was seized just inside Niger returning from Mali's ...
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... European and Canadian hostages kidnapped in similar circumstances have been freed after ransoms were paid...but the British government has...policy against such dealings...
Prime Minister Gordon Brown...offered his condolences to Mr Dyer's family.
[snip]
Mr Dyer....was abducted, along with a Swiss couple and a German woman, near the border with Niger after attending a festival of nomad culture...in Mali.
A gun was...fired close to Mr Dyer's head as a signal the tourists would be killed if they resisted....
...It was believed that the hostage-takers were Tuareg rebels, who have regularly clashed with Mali's army, who then sold them to Al Qaeda....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Black on black slavery? Black sellers to Arab buyers slavery?
Look at the bright side: at least he wasn’t waterboarded.
Prayers for his family.
Note to self: avoid music festivals in Africa.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS...MOVE ALONG, MOVE ALONG.
0bama will no doubt apologize to the Al Qaeda responsible for this. If not for our ways and values, the Islamonuts would not be driven to do these things.
Time for another round of concessions to the Islamic scum you’ve allowed to infest your Island eh, once great Brits?
Time for another round of concessions to the Islamic scum you’ve allowed to infest your Island eh, once great Brits?
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is off to Arab world, and they show their hate to us (the western world). God Bless the United Kingdom. R.I.P.
vaudine
Dear God...
why would anyone want to go to Africa....
My thoughts exactly...it is bad enough my tax dollars go to support Third World hellholes...why would anyone other than a MulticulturalMoron(tm) want to actually go there?
Incredible. Here’s a tourist kidnapped at a music festival, kept for four months, and then beheaded by AQ - and this is the first we’ve heard about it. And there’s virtually no reaction.
Guys, this wasn’t even a defense contractor or somebody even slightly official. He was a 60 yr old tourist at a music festival.
But in the Glorious New Barack World, he probably deserved to die. Being white and elderly and British and all that.
Sick bastards. And the dems want to disarm us.
Could be the reason why we haven't heard about it. Or like you eluded to, it could be something more sinister, I'm just guessing here. The Brits policy is the correct one. Just look at the pirates. They demand ransom too, and many times get it. And look how their work picked up until they picked the wrong ship. Now, there are other countries standing up to them and gravy train might be dried up. The world needs to stand up to these radical muslim types, all the world, or this crap is going to continue to get worse.
Seems like they know who did this.
Once upon a time they might have been paid a loud visit by the RAF or a quieter, but equally deadly drop-in by SAS.
Diamonds, gold, yellow cake, and oil. That's all I can think of.
British officials had been using intermediaries to try to secure Dyer's release, and had asked the media to comply with a media blackout to avoid increasing his "value" as a hostage. The government generally believes publicity can have a negative effect on such cases.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/03/edwin-dyer-hostage-killed-al-qaida
These jihadi types should be hunted down and imprisoned or killed. Show them the mercy they show innocents.
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