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  • French Hostage in Algeria Is Beheaded in New Video

    09/24/2014 10:25:51 AM PDT · by Justaham · 46 replies
    nytimes.com ^ | 9/24/2014 | RUKMINI CALLIMACHISEPT
    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.
  • Hostages urge France to lift veil ban

    08/30/2004 2:04:13 PM PDT · by The_Englishman · 18 replies · 476+ views
    Yahoo ^ | 30/8/04 | By Heba Kandil
    Hostages urge France to lift veil ban DUBAI (Reuters) - Militants holding two French journalists hostage in Iraq have given France another 24 hours to agree to their demands and scrap a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools, Al Jazeera reports. The Arabic TV station on Monday showed a tape of the two journalists urging the French people to hold protests to persuade their government to retract the headscarf law or they might be killed. The kidnappers gave the French government one more day to overturn the ban after a previous 48-hour deadline expired on Monday, Al Jazeera said, quoting...