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Abducted US journalist killed in Yemen: Official

6 Dec 2014 13:03

Islam Times - The US has confirmed that American journalist Luke Somers, abducted by al-Qaeda-affiliated militants in Yemen last year, has been killed in the course of a failed US rescue operation.

The US President Barack Obama on Saturday confirmed his death adding "The United States strongly condemns the barbaric murder of Luke Somers at the hands of Al-Qaeda terrorists during a rescue operation."
 
Yemeni officials had previously confirmed Somers’ death.
 
"The American hostage Somers was killed", a senior Yemeni security official speaking on condition of anonymity said in a Saturday interview without providing further details.
 
US Special Operation forces launched the rescue operation along with Yemeni soldiers in the eastern province of Hadramawt.
 
In a recent three-minute video obtained by a US terrorism monitoring group, an al-Qaeda member said that Somers would meet his “inevitable fate” if Washington failed to meet the group’s demands, without specifying what the demands were.

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