{"id":15006,"date":"2011-12-15T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/western-sahara-rebels-detain-kidnap-suspects\/"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T15:02:22","slug":"western-sahara-rebels-detain-kidnap-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/15\/western-sahara-rebels-detain-kidnap-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Sahara: Rebels &#8216;Detain Kidnap Suspects&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rnw.nl\/africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/rnw180.png\" alt=\"Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" title=\"Visit Radio Netherlands Worldwide (Hilversum)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>15 December 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Western Saharan rebels have detained people implicated in the October kidnapping of three Europeans in Algeria, the APS agency quoted rebel officials as saying on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were acting on behalf of a criminal organisation unknown until now,&#8221; Khatri Eddouh, president of the Polisario parliament, was quoted as telling journalists late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The report did not say how many people had been detained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will expend all necessary efforts and collaborate with neighbouring countries and even other countries to free the hostages,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A Spanish man and woman and an Italian woman were seized in Algeria in October and are purportedly held by an Al-Qaeda splinter group that has claimed their abduction on Saturday, Jamat Tawhid Wal Jihad Fi Garbi Afriqqiya (Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa).<\/p>\n<p>The group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping, saying it had broken away from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which was behind several other recent attacks and abductions in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The hostages were seen alive in a video shown to an AFP correspondent in Bamako on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Polisario fighters took up arms for an independent state in Western Sahara after Morocco annexed the area in 1976 after a Spanish withdrawal. The UN brokered a ceasefire in 1991.<\/p>\n<p><em>ANP\/AFP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><a name=\"c|main|main|id|0DYjslH4Tb8yurxr\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"c|main|main|id|0DZ7H0-kZEPAXi4W\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 15 December 2011 Western Saharan rebels have detained people implicated in the October kidnapping of three Europeans in Algeria, the APS agency quoted rebel officials as saying on Thursday. &#8220;They were acting on behalf of a criminal organisation unknown until now,&#8221; Khatri Eddouh, president of the Polisario parliament, was quoted as telling journalists late Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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