Fresh Video Emerges of French Qaida Hostages
A fresh video emerged Saturday of four out of six French hostages held by al-Qaida in North Africa, all of them calling for negotiations to secure their freedom. Shown separately in the video uploaded to the Mauritanian news website Sahara Medias, Pierre Legrand, Daniel Larribe, Thierry Dole and Marc Feret, who were abducted in Niger in September 2010. "It's Wednesday, August 29, 2012. We have now been here for nearly two years," Larribe said, without disclosing where he was speaking. All four called on their relatives, employers and the French authorities to help negotiate their release. The separate shots had differing backgrounds and the armed men wearing turbans who stood behind each hostage were not the same. Sahara Medias is one of the most reliable news sites in Mauritania, with a particularly strong network of sources in northern Mali, which was seized by radical Islamist groups from government forces five months ago. The four were among seven people