Posted on 05/17/2013 10:54:22 AM PDT by george76
Former hostage ‘spared after he recited verses from Quran’.
Vienna: An Austrian man held hostage for five months in Yemen said he was kept in permanent darkness in a room too small to stand up in and was forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint.
At one point, Dominik Neubaur told Austrian magazine News, he was taken out for what he thought would be his execution — but believed he was spared after he recited verses from the Quran.
“I heard a weapon being loaded and felt its muzzle on the back of my head,” he said his first interview since his release a week ago.
Neubaur, a 26-year-old student of Arabic, and the Finns were kidnapped by tribesmen in Sanaa on December 21, and were later sold to Al Qaida
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Why would any sane person go to Yemen? In a sane world, the entire are where he was kidnapped would be a smoking crater right now.
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