Italy’s intelligence service helped concoct a false story about a rescue of hostages by security forces to hide a ransom payment, according to a leaked spy agency document. Al Qaeda got $525,000 in this scam…Note also that this article ties Somali piracy to Jihad, something we and others have maintained for some time, but which […]
After switching off her handphone for months, the wife of an Abu Sayyaf hostage switched it on again only to receive a chilling call from the gunmen – they are threatening to behead him. http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/08/25/Threats-to-behead-hostages/
A $4 million ransom was reportedly paid to the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusra Front for the release of 13 Greek Orthodox nuns that were held hostage by the Jihadist group for four months. They hostages were released in a deal between the Syrian Assad regime and Jihadists of the Al Nusra Front, brokered by Qatar, a […]
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