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Kidnapped Swiss Pleads with Switzerland for Help
 [Yemen Post] The kidnapped Swiss teacher called on her government to work on setting her free. She was kidnapped in mid- March by al-Qaeda elements in the western impoverished-hit province of Al-Hodeida.The hostage was teaching English in a languages institute in al-Hodeida. On Monday, she was shown in a short video clip on a new-established YouTube account. In the video, she said she was kidnapped on March 13th, and that she was treated well by her kidnappers. It was not clear when the footage was taken but she mentioned that she had been kidnapped for four weeks. The exact location of the hostage is still uncertain. But, her colleague said she had received a phone call from the hostage saying she was being moved to the southeastern province of Shabwa. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch, Butch and the Kid finally brought their horses under control... a tribal leader said that the kidnappers asked for unachievable conditions in order to release the hostage including that all of the Saudi female prisoners be released from custodies. Also, they asked for 50 million Euro as ransom. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... local sources reported that the Swiss hostage was being moved to the trouble-torn province of Abyan. ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirateafter seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... A French working with the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) was kidnapped from al-Hodeida about ten days ago. Kidnappings in Yemen have increased in the past ten years with Jihadists and rustics using it as a way of pressuring the government into meeting their demands and paying them huge ransoms. Posted by: Fred 2012-05-02 |
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