Posts Tagged ‘islamists’

3 Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania (AP via Yahoo! News)

November 30th, 2009

Army teams and planes searched the desert nation Monday for three Spanish volunteers kidnapped by gunmen, and Spain’s interior minister said he suspected al-Qaida-linked Islamists were behind the attack.

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3 Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania (AP via Yahoo! News)

Sudan Islamists to hang for murder of US diplomat (AFP via Yahoo! News)

October 12th, 2009

A Sudanese court sentenced four Islamists to death for a second time on Monday for the murder of a US diplomat and his driver in Khartoum last year.

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Sudan Islamists to hang for murder of US diplomat (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Slain US diplomat’s mother seeks Sudan killers’ death (AFP via Yahoo! News)

October 11th, 2009

The mother of a US diplomat killed by Islamists in Sudan demanded the death penalty for the four men convicted of his 2008 murder, according to a letter read out in court on Sunday.

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Slain US diplomat’s mother seeks Sudan killers’ death (AFP via Yahoo! News)