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Jihadists Execute Aid Worker Abducted in Nigeria, Says NGO
[AnNahar] Jihadists aligned to the so-called Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group have executed one of six aid workers kidnapped in July in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , charity group Action Against Hunger said Wednesday. "The gang holding captive an employee of Action Against Hunger (ACF), two drivers and three health ministry personnel, have executed a hostage," the Gay Paree-based organization said in a statement. "Action Against Hunger condemns in the strongest terms this liquidation and urgently calls for the release of the hostages." The group said it was "extremely concerned and is fully mobilised to ensure that the remaining hostages can be quickly and safely reunited with their families". The six Nigerian aid workers -- one woman and five men -- were seized by jihadists affiliated to the Islamic State group during an ambush on their convoy close to the border with Niger on July 18. The Islamic State West Africa province (ISWAP) group released a video in the wake of the abduction of the female ACF staff member pleading for the release of the hostages with her five male colleagues behind her. The kidnapping was the latest to target aid workers in the conflict-hit region after the abduction and killing of two female workers for the International Committee of the Red Thingy (ICRC) last year. The announcement of the latest execution comes after the army last week shut down ACF offices in northeast Nigeria, accusing the organization of supplying "food and drugs" to the jihadists. ISWAP is a splinter group of jihadist group Boko Haram  ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...that swore allegiance in 2016 to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. It has repeatedly attacked military bases and targeted aid workers in northeast Nigeria. The decade-long insurgency has killed 35,000 people and displaced about two million from their homes in northeast Nigeria. Boko Haram fighters have kidnapped huge numbers of women and kiddies across the region. The group drew worldwide attention with the kidnapping of 276 girls from a school in Chibok in 2014. Related: Action Against Hunger: 2019-07-26 NGO Action Against Hunger Confirms 6 Aid Workers Kidnapped in Nigeria Action Against Hunger: 2019-07-20 NGO Says Staff Member, Five Others, Missing After Deadly Nigeria Convoy Attack Action Against Hunger: 2013-06-28 'Severe Humanitarian Crisis' in CAR Related: ISWAP: 2019-09-14 Six Nigerian soldiers dead in Islamist Militants' attacks ISWAP: 2019-08-14 Eight killed in Nigeria jihadist attacks, say military ISWAP: 2019-08-02 Dozens killed in Nigeria fighting between army, jihadists Posted by: trailing wife 2019-09-26 |
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