Austrian Hostage Update: NEFA Translated Communique Of Terrorists Group

Update on Vicki's post Al Qaeda Says It's Not Responsible For Fate Of Hostages

NEFA

The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated an April 7, 2008 communiqué issued by "the Al-Qaida Network in the Islamic Maghreb" (formerly known as the Salafist Group for Prayer and Combat, GSPC)[...]

According to the statement, the AQIM is now offering to exchange the lives of the two Austrian hostages for the release of two Muslim residents of Vienna prosecuted for distributing jihad propaganda on the Internet—and the immediate withdrawal of a token Austrian military delegation from international peacekeeping duties in Afghanistan.

Does this mean internet jihad propagandists really are important to terrorist groups? Shocka..not! NC alQaeda sympathizer Samir Khan aka Inshallahshaheed. and Jewish convert to Islam New Yorker Joseph Cohen aka Yousef al-Khattab come to mind.

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