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– EDWIN DYER ASSUMED DEAD
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Downing Street said, on Wednesday 06/03/2009, there is “strong reason to believe” that a British citizen, Edwin Dyer, has been executed by MAGHREB al-Qaeda militants.
Edwin Dyer was kidnapped in Niger, on 01/22/2009, close to the border with Mali. but was being held in Mali. Edwin Dyer was captured along with a number of other European tourists, including two Swiss, Werner Greiner and his wife, and one German. The group had been visiting the Anderamboukane festival on nomad culture.
Most of the other hostages have been released since, but one Swiss man remains in captivity and the British government urged the kidnappers to release him “immediately and unconditionally”.
Intelligence sources believe that Edwin Dyer was kidnapped by local tribesmen and sold on to Algerian members of Al Qaeda in Mali. Other European countries are understood to have paid ransoms to secure their hostages’ release.
The kidnapping group said had said it would kill Edwin Dyer if the British government refused to release radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada from a UK prison. Abu Qatada is awaiting extradition to Jordan, where he was convicted of terrorism offences in his absence and faces life in jail (see – JORDANIAN MILLENNIUM).
The militants posted a statement on an Islamist website announcing the killing. “The British captive was killed so that he, and with him the British state, may taste a tiny portion of what innocent Muslims taste every day at the hands of the Crusader and Jewish coalition to the east and to the west,” it said.
In a posting last month, the group said Abu Qatada must be released within 20 days or Edwin Dyer would be killed.
Algerian and UN sources claimed that the Algerian Islamic militant Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, nick name Abib Hammadou, who was listed by the UN as a known Al Qaeda member, is responsible for murder. Abdelhamid Abou Zeid was also implicated with the kidnapping of an Austrian couple in Southern Tunisia, in 02/2008 (see – AUSTRIAN-COUPLE).
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