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Was French hostage swapped for detained jihadists?

Dec 10, 2014 4:42 pm By Robert Spencer

Serge-LazarevicThis will only encourage more hostage-taking, as jihadis will see the chance to free their imprisoned comrades in exchange for Western hostages. But the fact that a policy is foolish, wrongheaded and counterproductive has never stopped Western governments from pursuing it in the past, so why should France start now?

“Dangerous trade-offs: Was French hostage swapped for detained jihadists?,” by Leela Jacinto, France 24, December 10, 2014:

A day after French President François Hollande announced the release of Serge Lazarevic, who was kidnapped in Mali in November 2011, the contrast between the headlines in France and Mali could not have been starker.

While French news sites on Wednesday splashed images of a smiling Hollande greeting Lazarevic on the tarmac of a military base near Paris, Malian media displayed images of an unsmiling man sporting a Salafi beard and turban.

“Libération de Mohamed Ali Ag Wadoussene,” read the banner headline of Malian daily Le Républicain, while the Nouvel Horizon featured a story about the Malian Human Rights Association accusing the Malian government of liberating four prisoners in exchange for Lazarevic’s release.

On Tuesday, shortly after Hollande announced Lazarevic’s release, the Mali-based news site, Sahelien.com, reported that al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) had released their 50-year-old French captive in exchange for two jihadists in Malian custody. By Wednesday, a number of news organisations said at least four – some put the figure at five – inmates were freed in the prisoner swap.

The man dominating Malian news coverage, however, was the turbaned, bearded Wadoussene – an unfamiliar figure in the international community, but an infamous character for many Malians.

Earlier this year, Wadoussene hit the Francophone West African media headlines when he was recaptured in a celebrated Malian commando raid weeks after he escaped from a Bamako jail. For Malian audiences accustomed to the spectacular failures of their security services, gripping media accounts of the security operation –including monitoring Wadoussene’s girlfriend known as “Rose” – were a welcome break.

Barely six months later, Malians were discovering that the target of that spectacular commando raid had been suddenly lost in one fell swoop.

In an interview with FRANCE 24, Moctar Mariko, head of the Malian Human Rights Association, condemned the alleged prisoner swap for Lazarevic’s freedom. “Even if this is considered a success for French diplomacy, we see it as a serious violation of the rights of the Malian victims,” said Mariko. “We do not understand. We are the ones suffering here in Mali. If we have to resort to exchanging a Malian terrorist for a French hostage, it means we have nothing left going for us.”…

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  1. Salah says

    Dec 10, 2014 at 10:41 pm

    Muhammad was breast-fed by his UNCLE Abu Talib!!!

    Al-Kafi, al-Kulayni v.1 p.284 #27 الكافى للكليني

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/01/breastfeeding-la-muhammad.html

    • mortimer says

      Dec 11, 2014 at 12:18 am

      Mohammed had sex with his dead aunt. Was she his lover both before and after death?

      From “Kanz Al Umal” (The Treasure of the Workers), chapter of “The issues of women”, authored by Ali Ibn Husam Aldin, commonly known as Al-Mutaki Al-Hindi. He based his book on the hadiths and sayings listed in “Al-Jami Al-Saghir,” written by Jalal ul-Din Al-Suyuti.

      Narrated by Ibn Abbas:

      `I (Muhammad) put on her my shirt that she may wear the clothes of heaven, and I SLEPT with her in her coffin (grave) that I may lessen the pressure of the grave. She was the best of Allah’s creatures to me after Abu Talib’… The prophet was referring to Fatima , the mother of Ali.

      “The Arabic word used here for slept is “Id’tajat,” and literally means “lay down” with her. It is often used to mean, “Lay down to have sex.” Muhammad is understood as saying that because he slept with her she has become like a wife to him so she will be considered like a “mother of the believers.” This will supposedly prevent her from being tormented in the grave, since Muslims believe that as people wait for the Judgment Day they will be tormented in the grave. “Reduce the pressure” here means that the torment won’t be as much because she is now a “mother of the believers” after Muhammad slept with her and “consummated” the union. ”

      Mohammed was a true cult leader who gave himself the privilege to have sex with any women DEAD OR ALIVE, young or old.

  2. mortimer says

    Dec 10, 2014 at 11:51 pm

    Christy,
    The Caliphate in Turkey proclaimed the need for Muslims to commit GENOCIDE in Turkey and every former Islamic-controlled province in Africa or Asia. The Caliph asked every Muslim to murder at least 4 infidels. The result in Turkey was the genocide of 3 million Christian subjects of the Islamic Ottoman Empire. The following quotes are from:

    “A UNIVERSAL PROCLAMATION TO ALL PEOPLE OF ISLAM, Published by the National Society of Defence, The Seat of the Caliphate, 1914

    Today the Holy War has become a Sacred Duty for Every Muslim. Arise, awake, and know that to-day the Holy War has become a sacred duty for all the people of the Faith.

    It is necessary to form secret and public unions in the land of Islam. They must know that the killing of the infidels who rule over the Islamic lands has become a sacred duty, whether it be secretly or openly, as the great Koran declares in it word: “Take them and kill them whenever you come across them, and we have given you a manifest power over them by revelation.”
    To whoever kills even one single infidel of those who rule over the Islamic lands, either secretly or openly, there is a reward like a reward from all the living ones of the Islamic world. And let every individual of the Muslims in whatever place they may be, take upon him an oath to kill at least three or four of the ruling infidels, enemies of God, and enemies of the religion. He must take upon him this oath before God Most High, expecting his reward from God alone.
    Therefore it is the duty of those who truly profess Islam in those countries that they should proclaim the war immediately, and that they should drive out those weak ones, of those who are corrupt, who have sucked the life of the Islamic world, and have expended its treasures and dispersed all its good things. And let every one of us be confident that the power of the Islamic people in its Holy War is sufficient for driving out all the infidels and casting them out of all its lands.”

    Christy, 3 million Christians were slaughtered by your people between 1914 and 1924.

  3. zulu says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 1:02 am

    OT

    5,000 deaths in a MONTH: Shocking toll of the 664 jihadi attacks in 14 countries around the world in November
    Study reveals seven deaths every hour are carried out by jihadis
    Notorious IS has carried out beheadings, crucifixions and massacres
    Survey by the BBC World Service and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), found the shocking extent of slaughter
    In a single month, there were 664 reported jihadist attacks in 14 countries
    These resulted in a staggering 5,042 deaths
    Worst day was November 2, when 410 people were killed in 41 attacks

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2869362/5-000-deaths-MONTH-Shocking-toll-664-jihadi-attacks-14-countries-world-November.html#ixzz3LZAzTpU9
    Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

  4. KiwiKaffir says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 2:17 am

    I thought the USA set the precedent in prisoner swaps!

  5. Crixus says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 9:26 am

    What a steaming pile of mince.

    Of course its about Islam. It might not be about ALL muslims but to deny it has anything to do with Islam is simply nonsense.

    I live in a town in the North of England. We have an Abbey here which was founded around 600. Christians were peacefully worshiping god here 150 years before that syphilitic, paedophile, louse living on an infected goat scrotum, Mohammed (piss be upon him), started violently ramming his swivel eyed death cult down the throats of his exasperated neighbours.

  6. Crixus says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 9:28 am

    Oh, and Christy,
    While you are at it we’d all be VERY interested to hear your excuses on this topic:

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/12/biden-tried-to-lecture-hirsi-ali-about-islam/comment-page-1#comment-1160440

  7. TH says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 3:40 pm

    Hollande is the most unpopular French Presidente ever and owes his presidency to muslim votes. Many Fench are fed up of islam and immigration so that the fight wing National Front may well come in first in the next Presidential elections. Le Pen may not win the presidency as in a secord round it is likley that all her opponents will gang up against her.

  8. Cicero says

    Dec 11, 2014 at 3:58 pm

    This is an excellent example of the concept of tu quoque in debating terms.
    It is a common ploy of followers of the religion of peace. What better way to deflect attention from its own body of putrid and putrefying beliefs. Simply to manufacture or conflate similar occurrences in non- Muslim societies in order to throw a confused net over the anti- jihadists on this site.

    Ignore it dear posters!

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