Wednesday - June 03, 2009

Al Qaeda beheads British tourist kidnapped at African music festival.

Hard to find words that don’t all run together starting with eF.

The photo (at the link) may not be bloody but it is not a pretty one. Hard to imagine what the poor guy had to go through first.
No point in repeating the old mantra re. The Bomb” and let god sort it out.  We all feel that way but we all know it just ain’t gonna happen.

I don’t understand why anyone would have been in that part of the world anyway. What’s there to see except crude living barely human life forms anyway?

Be sure of course that if by some odd chance, and it would be a very odd chance, that if any of these sub-humans were caught, most likely some effin’ do-gooder will insist their uman rights not be violated. 

By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE
Last updated at 12:44 PM on 03rd June 2009

A Briton kidnapped in Africa has been beheaded by Al Qaeda terrorists demanding the release of radical cleric Abu Qatada from a London jail.

The terror group’s North African section said on its website that it had killed Edwin Dyer, adding that disbelievers would be ‘smitten in the neck’. Gordon Brown said the Government had ‘strong reason to believe’ the claim.

The statement said terrorists ‘killed Dyer on May 31, finding that Britain is unresponsive and does not seem to care for its citizens’.

It added: ‘The British captive was killed so that he, and with him the British state, may taste a portion of what innocent Muslims taste every day at the hands of the Crusader and Jewish coalition to the east and to the west.’

The kidnappers blamed the British government for Mr Dyer’s death, claiming that ministers had failed to negotiate a deal.

Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM), the North African branch of the group, had threatened to kill Mr Dyer if extremist cleric Abu Qatada was not released from a British high-security prison.

The Briton, who spoke fluent German and had been working in Austria, was kidnapped in Niger along with three other Europeans after visiting an African festival in January.

He was seized along with a German woman and two Swiss citizens after armed Tuareg rebels shot out the tyres of two cars they were returning in from the Anderamboukane Festival over the border in Mali.

Ironically the biennial festival celebrates Tuareg culture, music, crafts and sport.  Three other tourists escaped unharmed in a third car through a hail of bullets.

The party’s cook, who also escaped, later told how the kidnappers had staged a ‘show execution’ by firing a gun an inch away from his head.

The tribesmen then sold their captives on to the terror cell led by Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, a leading figure in AQIM. Also held were two Canadian diplomats seized by a different group.

A Swiss man, Werner Greiner, is still being held by the Al Qaeda cell. All the other hostages were released previously. Other European countries are believed to have paid ransoms, and Al Qaeda announced last month that it had secured the release of four Islamist fighters in exchange for hostages.

However, the UK has a no-exceptions policy against making deals with terrorists.

AQIM had vowed to kill Mr Dyer if the British Government did not free Jordanian Abu Qatada, jailed in 2005 and currently fighting deportation to Jordan. A multi-million-euro ransom is also thought to have been demanded.

Despite refusing to meet that demand, secret negotiations involving the Malian government and others - reputedly including Sayf al-Islam al-Gaddafi, son of the Libyan leader - had been taking place in a desperate bid to secure Mr Dyer’s freedom.

‘I utterly condemn this appalling and barbaric act of terrorism,’ Mr Brown said.

Qatada, named as Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe by Spanish judges, is in solitary confinement at Long Lartin, Worcestershire.

In his statement today Mr Brown warned Mr Dyer’s killers: ‘This tragedy reinforces our commitment to confront terrorism. It strengthens our determination never to concede to the demands of terrorists, nor to pay ransoms.

‘I want those who would use terror against British citizens to know beyond doubt that we and our allies will pursue them relentlessly, and that they will meet the justice they deserve.’

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