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| Yemeni tribesmen free Austrian tourists |
| 2005-12-24 |
| Two Austrian tourists were freed on Saturday by kidnappers in Yemen who had seized them to press the government to release fellow tribesmen jailed for trying to go to Iraq to fight U.S. forces, Yemeni officials said. The Austrians were in good health and had been taken to a hotel in the mountainous Marib province, where they were kidnapped on Wednesday by members of the Abidah tribe, said an Interior Ministry statement. "The two Austrians ... will continue their tourist programme in Yemen. Police are searching for the kidnappers," it said. Tribal sources said negotiators, including senior Abidah tribesmen, had succeeded in convincing the kidnappers that the government would look into their demands. It was not clear if the jailed tribesmen were linked to Islamist groups such as al Qaeda, which is involved in an insurgency in Iraq and has sympathisers in Yemen. Armed tribal groups in Yemen, a poor country at the tip of the Arabian peninsula where central government control is weak in many areas, often seize tourists. They are usually freed unharmed after negotiations. After the kidnapping, the U.S. embassy posted a statement on its Web site saying it had restricted travel for all its personnel to Marib and the northern province of Saada, scene of a clash last month between government forces and Shi'ite rebels. Two Swiss tourists were kidnapped last month but later released unharmed. A tribal leader freed the two after receiving a promise from Yemeni officials that they would look into the case of his imprisoned brother. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #10 LOL bABY jESus! |
| Posted by: beeGbus 2005-12-24 13:13 |
| #9 Nice try Dingleberry |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-12-24 12:00 |
| #8 All caps give me a migrane and fond memories of copying down Morse Code when I was a kid. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2005-12-24 11:56 |
| #7 JOE 2008 |
| Posted by: bABY jESus 2005-12-24 11:35 |
| #6 .com, I'm glad I read that a second time - with all the caps and the ranting, at first I genuinely thought it was Joe. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2005-12-24 11:17 |
| #5 ROFL. Fucking Spammer. It's not communism to remove SPAM, idjit. It's positively inspiring. You're about as "REAL" as any other lame advertisement. Now fuck off. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-12-24 10:53 |
| #4 Happy Birthday Jesus. check your calendar tho', tomorrow is the anniversary of your birth. |
| Posted by: Doc8404 2005-12-24 10:50 |
| #3 No I didn't. Now be quiet and leave me alone. I'm preparing to be born and save the world. |
| Posted by: Jesus 2005-12-24 10:47 |
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| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-12-24 10:46 |
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| Posted by: DEAN BERRY -- REAL AMERICAN 2005-12-24 10:28 |