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Al-Qaeda sets French hostage execution deadline
[Maghrebia] Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on Sunday (July 11th) vowed to execute 78-year-old French hostage Michel Germaneau within 15 days, Journal Tahalil reported. AQIM demanded a ransom and the release of Salafist prisoners in return for Germaneau's life. "France will have sentenced its citizen to death" if it fails to comply, AQIM said in a statement published on Islamist websites. The elderly hostage, a retired petrol sector engineer for an Algerian company, was abducted April 21st in northern Niger along with his Algerian driver Abidine Ouaghi. The Algerian was later released in Mali.
Posted by: Fred 2010-07-13 |
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