{"id":934,"date":"2010-03-10T15:17:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/0ce1e7563d96297b63679d5a580b4cd6#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-03-10T15:17:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T20:17:23","slug":"mali-release-of-two-of-five-aqim-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/mali-release-of-two-of-five-aqim-hostages\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali: Release of two of five AQIM hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.   Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta (the Catalans kidnapped November 29) and Cicala (kidnapped December 18) remain hostage.  There is no word on what was exchanged.  Burkina authorities were the intermediaries for Kabour&#039;s release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.   Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta (the Catalans kidnapped November 29) and Cicala (kidnapped December 18) remain hostage.  There is no word on what was exchanged.  Burkina authorities were the intermediaries for Kabour&#39;s release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/mali-release-of-two-of-five-aqim-hostages\/\">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":[241,249,352,161],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1014,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/aqim-more-hostage-stories\/","url_meta":{"origin":934,"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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