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 ...
[snip]
... 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 ...
As President Bush said
Religion of Peace
Well, there goes that theory! Doesn't matter whether it gets publicity or not - they're still going to kill the hostage.
Think this will come up in “the speech” to the muslims?
Did obama respond with a comment, or something? (/sar)
“These jihadi types should be hunted down and imprisoned or killed. Show them the mercy they show innocents.”
They should be exterminated, their families should be sterilized and their villages burned. An IQ of 70 and a violent religion don’t mix.
“.....the first we’ve heard about it.” Well, you are partially correct. But we’ve only heard about it because the invaluable Free Republic published the account of a FOREIGN newspaper. The great majority of our compatriots who depend on our own MSM for news will NEVER hear about it. On the contrary, the American MSM will spend this week slavishly fawning over our clueless president’s bowing and scraping before the hard eyed, bigoted, uncompromising inhabitants of the “Muslim World.”
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