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Spanish hostages freed by al-Qaida-linked group following prisoner swap, allegations of ransom
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Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped almost nine months ago by an al-Qaida affiliate arrived Tuesday in Barcelona after a multi-million-dollar ransom was reportedly paid for their freedom — a sign of the terrorist group's growing sophistication in bankrolling operations through kidnappings, experts said Aid workers Roque Pascual and Albert Vilalta were abducted last November when their convoy of 4-by-4s was attacked by gunmen on a stretch of road in Mauritania, They were whisked away to Mali, whose northern half is now one of the many stretches of remote desert where al-Qaida of Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has stretched its tentacles ,Late on Monday afternoon, the pair stepped out of a helicopter that landed on the grounds of the presidential palace in Burkina Faso and were handed a cell phone.
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CCDH urges rights NGOs to intervene to ensure safe return of Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud to Tindouf
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The Moroccan Advisory Council on Human Rights (CCDH) urged, on Tuesday, all the national and international human rights organizations to do their best so that the senior polisario official, Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud, can return to Tindouf (south-western Algeria) safe and sound and defend his opinions freely,"CCDH urges all sister national institutions, including the National Consultative Human Rights Commission of Algeria, all international agencies and all national and international human rights associations to do their best so that Mr Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud can return to Tindouf safely and defend his opinions freely," The CCDH said in a statement The CCDH, which received a letter from Mostafa Salma Sidi Mouloud in which he expressed fear of "possible retaliation by the leadership of the Polisario Front," underlined that "given the deplorable state of human rights in the Tindouf camps, or even the illegal character of these camps under the international humanitarian law, the fear of retaliation expressed by Mr.
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It bothers me when I hear people describe a personal set of conditions that need to be met before they can make the next move in their life Most often, they’re just making excuses — creating obstacles that aren’t actually there, placing the blame on some outside force they can’t control, and choosing to let day after day of inaction turn into many years of waiting for their cosmos to align.
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Egypt arrests Brotherhood members
By Agencies
February 8, 2010 12:00 AM
Egyptian security forces have detained three of the Muslim Brotherhood's senior leaders and at least 10 other members,Mahmoud Ezzat, the Brotherhood's newly elected deputy leader, and two other members of the group's guidance council - identified as Essam el-Erian and Abdul-Rahman el-Bir - were arrested in the early hours of Monday A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the media, said they were arrested for engaging in banned political activity.
Sources close to the Brotherhood said the arrests were a crackdown on Egypt's largest opposition group ahead of elections this year.
Though banned, the Brotherhood won a fifth of the seats parliament in 2005 when its members ran as independents, but since then authorities have squeezed the group out of mainstream politics.
'State campaign'
Al Jazeera's Amr el-Kahky reporting from the Egyptian capital of Cairo, said: "Even though the Brotherhood has been banned since the 1950s, its members still run in elections.
The latest arrests send a message of no tolerance from the government just as parliamentary elections in the country are about to take place. The government will always deal with them as a banned group."
Gamal Nassar, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, told Al Jazeera: "The arrests will definitely affect Egypt’s image, both internally and externally.
"The Egyptian regime must review such practice because the Muslim Brotherhood has a presence on the streets of Egypt, it gains legitimacy from the people and has 86 seats in the parliament," he said.
The Brotherhood is widely seen as the only opposition group capable of mobilising thousands of disciplined supporters in protest against the government, but its members are regularly rounded up before votes for national or local bodies.
Mohamed el-Katatni, a member of group's guidance bureau, said: "This is part of the state's campaign against the group. The group is now getting ready for parliamentary elections and this campaign is to stem such activities."
Security forces detained 20 other members of the Brotherhood on Saturday and Sunday.
Supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood have staged a number of protests in recent years demanding the government to release its members.
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