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| Islamic state group claims killing of Croatian hostage on radio |
| 2015-08-14 |
| [AlAhram] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group said on Thursday on its affiliated radio station that its Egyptian branch has killed the Croatian hostage. This news comes a day after a photo purporting to show the captive's headless body circulated online. In an audio broadcast of its Al-Bayan station the group said, "the soldiers of the Caliphate killed the Croatian captive whose country is participating in the war on the Islamic State. It said the slaying came after a 48-hour ultimatum, given to Egypt to free Moslem women prisoners, expired and both the "apostate Egyptian government and his own have abandoned him." Croatia says 2 groups were involved in hostage's abduction in Egypt [AlAhram] Two separate groups were involved in the kidnapping of Croatian Tomislav Salopek in Egypt -- one that kidnapped him and asked for a ransom before handing him over to the Islamic State group, which reportedly killed him, Croatia's Foreign Minister said Thursday. Speaking in the Croatian coastal town of Rijeka, Vesna Pusic said the captors requested money from the company Salopek worked for. Then contact was broken and on Aug. 5 a video emerged showing Salopek as a hostage of the Islamic State branch in Egypt. "No money request was made then but rather the release of Moslem women from Egyptian jails -- which was a bad sign, as some 99 percent of the locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... women in Egypt are Moslem and the captors did not specify who they really wanted to be released," she said. "The conclusion was that there is no specific request and that we were dealing with two different organizations. One that kidnapped him and the other that identified itself as the Islamic State." Salopek's killing, if confirmed, would be the first of a foreign captive in Egypt, where the government has been struggling to project an image of stability and revive the economy following years of unrest. |
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