Germans: Brutality of Killing Points to Al Qaeda
There’s no way rebel leader Abdelmalik al Houthi would order the kidnapping and murder of Germans in particular, when his brother Yahya al Houthi is in exile in Germany. That the Yemeni government spent three days strongly asserting that the Houthis kidnapped them, when lives are on the line, shows their utter disregard for human life. Its odd that the Yemeni regime, usually so eager to show itself as the victim of terrorism, hasn’t said a peep about the possibility of al Qaeda involvement so far- its been five days and its an al Qaeda type operation.
The German comment on the “brutality” of the deaths is distressing; one can only hope the three nurses were shot before they were stabbed and mutiliated. German intel expects they are likely all dead already.
If they are alive, the hostages may be in Saudi Arabia and/or show up in a vid. The terrorists would keep the mother alive to keep the kids calm. Its a bad situation when that’s one of the more positive alternatives. God help them.
SABA: Brutal killing of foreigners in Yemen bears al-Qaeda ‘Hallmarks’, Germany June 16 (Saba) – Germany believes al-Qaeda was behind the kidnapping of seven Germans on Friday and killing two female captives on Monday in Yemen. The German intelligence services expected all the hostages including seven Germans, a Briton and a South Korean, were killed in the hand of al-Qaeda militants in the Yemeni northern Saada region.The German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported Tuesday the German Intelligence Authorities based their conclusions on the brutality of the killing of three female foreigners whose bodies were found in Saada.
“The Germans are particularly in Al-Qaeda’s line of fire. Al-Qaeda is intensifying things. We should prepare ourselves for additional deaths,” an unnamed expert was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
