{"id":1120,"date":"2010-04-20T19:33:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delicious.com\/url\/cadcbf3f62576dc1056cdc295253c50d#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-04-20T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T00:33:09","slug":"aqim-more-hostage-stories-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/aqim-more-hostage-stories-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AQIM: More hostage stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    Philom\u00e8ne Kabor\u00e9 and her husband Sergio Cicala have given interviews regarding their captivity: she having been released some time ago, and he Friday the 16th.  They were taken in Mauritania, near the border with Mali, on their way south. Ms. Kabor\u00e9 says they were kept confined, but treated well.  They were not held by the AQIM kidnappers directly but by intermediaries, but were free to walk about in a isolated camp, well fed, and not beaten.  The camp itself was so isolated they did not know what country they were in. Does this suggest strength or weakness of their captors? That they have resources and supporters enough that they need not be involved with their prisoners?  Or that the AQIM are too hounded to keep a steady and secure base area?   Or does it suggest that the AQIM, having begun to pay others to kidnap for them, now are outsourcing the entire operation to smugglers and friendly tribes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                    Philom\u00e8ne Kabor\u00e9 and her husband Sergio Cicala have given interviews regarding their captivity: she having been released some time ago, and he Friday the 16th.  They were taken in Mauritania, near the border with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/aqim-more-hostage-stories-2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107,174],"tags":[241,249,352,419,161,345],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1693,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/aqim-more-hostage-stories-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":1120,"position":0},"title":"AQIM: More hostage stories","date":"April 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Philom\u00e8ne Kabor\u00e9 and her husband Sergio Cicala have given interviews regarding their captivity: she having been released some time ago, and he Friday the 16th. 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