Spain: Govt confirms AQ’s kidnapping announcement

This is an update of this story. El Mundo:

The technical committee of the Govt in charge of following the kidnapping of these three international volunteers in Mauritania, considers as credible AQIM’s recording in which they acknowledge the kidnappings.

El Pais:

AQ normally asks for freeing the people they had kidnapped, both for money and freeing the Islamist prisoners in Mauritania, Algeria and one in the United Kingdom, Omar Mahmud Othman, nicknamed Abu Qutada, or “Hate Preacher”.

The speaker did not name the region where the kidnapped volunteers are, but most people consider that they have been actually transferred to the north of the country, where AQ has its sanctuaries in the Sahel. Even an Austrian wedding couple captured in Tunisia in 2008 was taken there.

The fact that AQIM has kidnapped both French and Spanish nationals has a good part and a bad part. The positive angle is that Spain is going to work with France, the old colonial ruler of Mali. French secret service, The General Direction for Foreign Security, has the best knowledge of the area.

The negative angle is that AQIM has succeeded to kidnap citizens of both countries, France and Spain, against whom the terrorist organisation has targeted its attacks usuually. “Their boot is very valuable”, according to a Mali journalist.

Abu Qutada @ Wikipedia.

Abu Qutada @ BBC News.

According to UN, drug trafficking finances terrorist groups in the Sahel @ Le Monfe [FR]. Drug trafficking fuels Africa terrorism and crime: UN @ BBC.

UK: Campaign “Jesus 4 Shariah“

Islamization Watch:

The fact that Jesus lived nearly 6 centuries before ever Shariah appeared on Muhammad’s head, does not make a difference for UK Islamist cleric Anjem Choudary.

The fact that Jesus taught “Don’t do others what you don’t like them to do to you“, and Muhammad “If you don’t convert, pay or die“, doesn’t make any difference either for him either.

Anjem Choudary @ Wikipedia.

The unholy past of the Muslim cleric demanding the assasination of the Pope @ This Is London.

What Islam really says about Jesus and his return @ Logan’s Warning.

Spain: AQ acknowledges they kidnapped a French and 3 Spanish volunteers

ADN.es:

Terrorist organization Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI) has acknowledged today that they kidnapped the three Spanish voulunteers, last Nov 29th, according to a press release they have issued today.

In the press release they also acknowledge the kidnapping of another volunteer, a French national. He was taken captive on Nov 25th,

the message was read by a person who identified himself as Salab Abu Mohammed, an AQIM’s speaker.

According to Al-Yazira, Abu Mohammed assured that his organization will send mails to Spanish and French Governments about the conditions to free the 4 captives.

We’ll see what those conditions are…