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| Western hostages reportedly held by different AQIM cells in Mali |
| 2010-01-13 |
| [Maghrebia] The six Europeans kidnapped in Mauritania and Mali since November are currently being held by three different al-Qaeda groups in the northern Mali desert, Journal Tahalil reported on Monday (January 11th), citing Malian security sources and the AFP Bamako bureau. Frenchman Pierre Camatte is being held by radical Algerian AQIM emir Abdelhamid Abu Zeid, responsible for beheading British hostage Edwin Dyer last June. The three Spanish humanitarian aid workers abducted in Mauritania last November are reportedly in the hands of Algerian Mokhtar Belmokhtar, aka Lâaouar. According to Algerian daily Ennahar, however, they are with Abu Zeid's more "dangerous" faction. The Italian couple is held by Abu Yahya Amane, "a lieutenant of Abu Zeid, wishing to mark his own territory", the security source said. |
| Posted by:Fred |