... we can't guarantee their safety forever because military strikes you guys (France) against the Mujahideen base. "Nouakchott (Reuters)-a group of Al Qaida in North Africa says AQIM, they've killed a hostage who was arrested in France in northern Mali two years ago, said Mauritania news agency ANI, Sunday.
AQIM said, prisoners and other inmates at risk of being killed because of France's intervention in European countries of Mali, said ANI, a Reuters report.
"All the other hostages are still alive," said AQIM in a communiqué that seemed intended for the citizens of France and quoted by ANI, who often receive the statements of AQIM.
"But we could not ensure the safety of their forever because of the military strikes you guys (France) against Mujahideen bases," added the Communique.
ANI reported earlier this week, a member of AQIM claimed that guerrillas on March 10, Philippe Verdon fell, who was arrested in northern Mali in November 2011.
France, which is working with the military of Mali, on January 11, launched operation when militants threaten advanced to the capital of Mali, Bamako, after months of doubt about the African intervention forces to help drive out hard-line groups from the northern region.
Mali, who had become one of stable democracies in Africa, experienced the uncertainty after the coup d ' état in March 2012 overthrow the Government of President Amadou Toumani Toure.
The international community is worried that country will become the new hotbed of terrorists and they support the efforts of Africa to intervene militarily.
The United Nations has approved the placement of the African intervention force consisting of about 3300 soldiers under the auspices of the ECOWAS grouping of West African States. With the involvement of Chad, which has pledged 2,000 soldiers, means the number of intervention forces that would be much greater.
Hard-line groups, which said the experts acting under the umbrella of Al Qaida in Islamic Morocco (AQIM), dominate the North, Mali to the extent greater than that of France, since April last year.
Tribal rebels in mid-January 2012 launched more war decades for the independence of the Tuareg in the northern region they claim as their land, reinforced by heavily armed guerrillas who recently returned from Libya. However, their struggle was then hijacked by hard-line muslim groups.
Disgruntled army coup in March meant to give the military more authority in order to quell a revolt in the North, but it in fact backfire and the rebels took control of three major cities in the North of Mali within three days. (M014)
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