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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Maybe W has an FR account?
Yeah right.
Oui! Le `decrapitation’ was not in zee tour guide, mon Dieu!
I would sue the booking agent for that trip.
As bad as I feel for the guy and his family, this is clearly Darwin at work.
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.
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.
What are these people thinking that go to these countries for a “vacation” or “adventure”? Sometime you just f’up.
Indeed... ISIS mostly recruits amongst Amish, don’t we know?... and Marine recruiters should stay out of Christian schools.
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.
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!
why video?
Why not throw it over the wall of the French Embassy?
Algeria was French-controlled for a long time
Sounds like workplace violence...
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.
excellent
Mind if I steal it?
BFL
wonder if he had trip insurance. wonder if the airline fills the empty seat on the scheduled return flight.
Oh yeah, that’s right. They shoulda kept it.
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