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“Islam tells us not to have any links with unbelievers. That is why this man will be executed in the name of God.”

Jun 9, 2009 7:55 am By Robert Spencer

“They will see that we are jihadists, envoys of God, and their deaths will be the fault of their governments and their policies.”

Not that this has anything to do with Islam, of course.

More on this story. –˜He wept, hands bound. Then I heard two shots,– by Jon Swain and Bojan Pancevski in The Sunday Times, June 7 (thanks to Hugh):

A HARROWING account of the final hours of the kidnapped British tourist Edwin Dyer before he was murdered by Islamic militants in the Sahara desert last week has been given by an Arab intermediary who was negotiating for his release.

According to the negotiator, the fate of Dyer, 60, an opera-loving sales manager who came from Reading, Berkshire, but lived in Austria, was sealed two days before the killing when his captors separated him at gunpoint from Werner Greiner, 57, a Swiss lawyer they were also holding hostage.

The men’s ordeal had begun in January when they were captured with other tourists from Germany and Switzerland after setting out for a nomadic cultural festival near the lawless border between Niger and Mali.

They are believed to have been sold on to a hardline Islamist group in Mali under Abel Hamid Abu Zeid, 43, an Algerian militant listed by western governments and the United Nations as an Al-Qaeda member….

“They separated Dyer in front of us. I could tell it was a bad sign,” the intermediary said. “Negotiations were deadlocked. Britain was categorical that it would not give in to their demand to release Abu Qatada, the radical cleric who is imprisoned in Britain, in return for Dyer and, above all, it rejected paying ransom money for him.”

The negotiator said that Zeid, the leader of the Islamist group, was particularly hostile towards Britain. “Who are these British?” he asked. “Just western unbelievers. Islam tells us not to have any links with unbelievers. That is why this man [Dyer] will be executed in the name of God.”…

“They will see that we are jihadists, envoys of God, and their deaths will be the fault of their governments and their policies,” he said.

Dyer was then reunited briefly with Greiner. “Dyer was wearing a turban. He was very afraid and was sobbing. The Swiss man lowered his head,” he said.

“Dyer knew what awaited him. He said something I did not understand and wept. His hands were bound.

“Zeid told me to leave. As I turned away I heard two gunshots. I do not know whether these shots killed Dyer and they beheaded his corpse afterwards.”

Other sources said Dyer had been beheaded in what Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, called an “appalling and barbaric act of terrorism”. In a statement announcing Dyer’s death, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (a region of north Africa) quoted a verse from the Koran: “When ye meet the unbelievers, smite at their necks.”…

That’s Qur’an 47:4.

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