Is This the New Afghanistan? ; Evidence Is Growing That It May Have Been Al Qaeda Who Kidnapped the Five Britons in Ethiopia. From the Scene Sarah Sands Asks ...
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WHO is behind the kidnapping of the five British Embassy staff and family travelling in the Afar desert, in remote Ethiopia? For Foreign Office officials seeking their release, the best answer would be a group of bandits looking for ransom fees in return for a group of westerners.
The nightmare scenario is that it is Al Qaeda, intent on provoking the West into wider conflict in the Horn of Africa - a possibility that was realised from the moment news of the kidnap reached these shores. It is significant that it was the British Government's emergency planning committee Cobra, which met to discuss it.See the full content of this document
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Is This the New Afghanistan? ; Evidence Is Growing That It May Have Been Al Qaeda Who Kidnapped the Five Britons in Ethiopia. From the Scene Sarah Sands Asks ...
This is the Horn of Africa, one of the most volatile regions in the world - an area that makes the Middle East seem stable. Western governments have identified these countries of scrub and desert as a breeding ground for Islamist violence, much of it tolerated and even encouraged by governments. The kidnap took place within a stone's throw of Eritrea, a country that supports fundamentalist regimes, assists Al Qaeda and which has recently become a haven for Islamist militia.
The Foreign Office talked publicly of mistaken identity, or tourists wandering from the...See the full content of this document
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