Via CT Blog -
The SITE Intelligence Group has released an announcement from Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, in which it stipulates demands for the release of two Austrian tourists taken hostage this week. The demands provide three days for the Tunisian and Algerian governments to release prisoners. The message includes 6 images showing one of the hostages and a woman to his side with an obscured face and headscarf, who is likely the other hostage (see two such images below, courtesy of the SITE Intelligence Group).
Earlier today, the NEFA Foundation translated the AQIM communique in which it first claimed the kidnapping. AQIM warned Austria against attempting any military action to free the hostages and warned Western tourists to stay away from Tunisia: "The hands of the mujahideen can reach you wherever you are in the country of Tunisia..." You can download the entire communique from the NEFA website.
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