Yet another story that looks like BS to me, if al-Qaeda kidnapped Westerners they’d either kill them or ransom them for money the way that the GSPC did. This could easily have been staged by the Iranian government to show that they’re acting against al-Qaeda and not to believe those nasty rumors about Binny’s latest address.
The kidnappers of one Irish and two German tourists released Sunday after a three-week ordeal in southeastern Iran said they were linked to Islamic militant network al-Qaeda, Intelligence Minister Ali Yunessi said. "The hostage-takers claimed to be linked to al-Qaeda," Yunessi said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency, without saying whether they had been arrested or had released their hostages voluntarily. "According to the declarations of the hostages, the hostage-takers took their orders from abroad," the minister said, adding that the trio had been released "Saturday evening and Sunday morning." |