Yahya Abu Hammam, Interview with the Nouakchott News Agency, October 2012

Author
Yahya Abu Hammam
Date
Oct. 2012
Name of Author
Yahya Abu Hammam
Body

"I want to tell the families of the hostages that the choice of war [in Mali] apparently made by Mr Hollande will inevitably mean that he has signed the death warrant of the French hostages. Mr Hollande will bear the sole responsibility." Agence France Presse, “New AQIM chief warns on French hostages,” Modern Ghana (Accra), October 20, 2012, http://www.modernghana.com/news/425209/1/new-aqim-chief-warns-on-french-hostages.html.

Rhetoric Category
Anti-French
Pro-Violence
Threat
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)

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