Thursday, April 28, 2011

Al Qaeda will kill the hostages if France continues in Afghanistan

Paris (Editorial / Agencies) .- Al Qaeda has become a threat to France and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to kill the five French hostages held hostage somewhere in Niger since last September if Paris does not order the withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has released a video Tuesday that contains the messages of four French hostages kidnapped in Niger last September, and begging to French President Nicolas Sarkozy to withdraw French troops from Afghanistan.

Is the nth message in a video-threat from Al Qaeda calling for the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan or the French will not kill employees of the French nuclear company Areva, based in Niger. The video, three-minute sample images of the French hostages Pierre Legrand, Daniel Larriba, Thierry Marc Furrer Dol and surrounded by men presumably belonging to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and armed with assault rifles, according to the French agency AFP news.

France will not yield to the threat of Al Qaeda On the other hand, the French Minister for European Affairs, Laurent Wauquiez, said today that French policy did not dictate the hijackers, after the internet broadcast a new video of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb the four French people hostage and demands for their release.

In an interview to television channel "BFM TV, Wauquiez stressed that" the kidnappers not dictate the foreign policy of France. "He also insisted on doing" everything possible to be freed ", having insisted that the first thing you do in a situation like this is to analyze the video to ensure that demonstrates that the four French hostages kidnapped in Niger in September are alive, reports EFE.

The Elysee had not responded to first thing in the morning, while Al Qaeda in the Maghreb went directly to President Nicolas Sarkozy, who once again demanded that France remove its troops from Afghanistan. This political requirement would be added to other financial, referring to the 90 million orders per week passed by the terrorist organization in exchange for the release of the French, captured in Arlit, where they worked in a mine to extract uranium from French group Areva.

Three of the seven who were kidnapped then Arlit (a Togolese, a Malagasy and a French woman who had been treated for cancer) were released on 24 February. The video released now displays photographs of the four that remain in the hands of Al Qaeda in the Maghreb-Pierre Legrand, Daniel Larriba, Thierry Dol and Marc Furrer armed men behind them.

In the sound recording, the hostages are the date on which they speak (between 11 and 13 April).

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