{"id":847,"date":"2010-02-24T10:51:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/dc267798260dcd46eeeecd080e1b090b#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-02-24T10:51:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:51:02","slug":"mali-aqim-release-french-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/mali-aqim-release-french-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali: AQIM release French hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Camatte, seized by a gang near his home in Menaka and shopped to the AQIM in the desert, has returned to Bamako. Will he ever be able to go back to his longtime home? The Malians released four AQIM prisoners in exchange, we can assume under French pressure.  What else each side got from France or other western nations we will likely never know.  Algeria and Mauritania have withdrawn their ambassadors to Mali in protest.   Mali has its problems, but in this case, it just seems everyone else&#039;s festering problems, which would cost them too much to fix at home, come to northern Mali out of convenience.  The very least Algeria, Mauritania, and the west can do for Mali is is to make it harder for their proxy warriors to end up in Gao.  But that&#039;s wishful thinking, I&#039;m sure.  No word on the other hostages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Camatte, seized by a gang near his home in Menaka and shopped to the AQIM in the desert, has returned to Bamako. Will he ever be able to go back to his longtime home? The Malians released four AQIM prisoners in exchange, we can assume under French pressure.  What else each side got from France or other western nations we will likely never know.  Algeria and Mauritania have withdrawn their ambassadors to Mali in protest.   Mali has its problems, but in this case, it just seems everyone else&#039;s festering problems, which would cost them too much to fix at home, come to northern Mali out of convenience.  The very least Algeria, Mauritania, and the west can do for Mali is is to make it harder for their proxy warriors to end up in Gao.  But that&#039;s wishful thinking, I&#039;m sure.  No word on the other hostages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/mali-aqim-release-french-hostage\/\">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":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1004,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/francafrique-french-fbi-ran-the-malian-aqim-prisoner-release\/","url_meta":{"origin":847,"position":0},"title":"Francafrique: French &#8220;FBI&#8221; ran the Malian AQIM prisoner release","date":"April 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Intelligence Online\" reports that the French internal security agency, the Direction Centrale du Renseignement Int\u00e9rieur (DCRI) carried out the negotiation with the AQIM for the release of French hostage Pierre Camatte, and sent Bernard...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":842,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/aqim-former-hostage-peter-camatte-speaks\/","url_meta":{"origin":847,"position":1},"title":"AQIM: Former hostage Peter Camatte speaks","date":"February 25, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"In a press appearance in Bamako Peter Camatte, the French-Malian NGO head who was held by the AQIM described his captors as \"fanatics\". His description of the Algerian Abdelhamid Abou Ze\u00efd's group was \"Fanatics, who thought no one but them were real Muslims\". He said the group was %70-%80 youths,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":934,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/mali-release-of-two-of-five-aqim-hostages\/","url_meta":{"origin":847,"position":2},"title":"Mali: Release of two of five AQIM hostages","date":"March 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Philomena Kabour, the Burkina-Italian wife of Sergio Cicala, kidnapped near in Mauritania was released, along with Alicia Gamez, one of three Catalan aid workers kidnapped north of Nouakchott. All appear to have been taken to a AQIM camp in the remote Saharan north of Mali. 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The US and other are continually hammering on about the Sahel becoming the next Afghanistan or Somalia, but more as an attempt to justify the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1693,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/aqim-more-hostage-stories-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":847,"position":5},"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. 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. 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