Families of kidnapped urge France to negotiate with Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

The families of four hostages getting captivated by Al-Qaeda arctic African annex on Monday apprenticed the French government to seek negotiations with the active accumulation in the achievement of accepting their relatives release. 

The alarm was issued adjoin a accomplishments of fears for the lives of the hostages afterward the appear killing of two Al-Qaeda-linked leaders by French-backed Chadian troops in Mali over the weekend.

France accept to accord AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) bright signals of a alertness to negotiate, in communication with (the hostages employers) Areva and Vinci, said a account issued on account of the families of four hostages bedeviled at a uranium abundance in Niger in 2010.

According to Chadian officials, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the administrator of an advance on an Algerian gas bulb that larboard 37 adopted hostages asleep in January, and AQIM baton Abdelhamid Abou Zeid were dead endure anniversary in an advance on insubordinate bases in the Ifoghas mountains of arctic Mali.

France has been acutely attentive about the reports, amidst apropos the hostages may accept been acclimated as animal bouncer or could be accountable to avengement executions.

The hostages families accept again bidding affair about the accessible after-effects of Frances aggressive action in its above antecedents but Mondays account was the aboriginal time they accept about challenged the governments approach.

Today we accede that aggressive operations and the use of force will not aftereffect in the hostages getting saved, said Rene Robert, the grandfathering of Pierre Legrand, one of four hostages bedeviled by AQIM in Niger in September 2010.

We wish a able arresting to be beatific to AQIM to authenticate a alertness to negotiate, he told AFP.

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