7 foreign hostages found dead in Yemen: Officials

[Turborama]

Source: AFP

Seven out of nine foreign hostages including a child were found murdered in northern Yemen on Monday, security officials said. "We have found the corpses of seven people who were kidnapped," a local security official said. "They were killed."

Two of the three children captured with the group were reportedly found alive.

The bodies were found by the son of a tribal leader in Noshour, east of the volatile Saada mountainous area of northern Yemen where the nine were abducted, the official said.

The authorities had accused Shiite Zaidi rebels in Saada of seizing seven Germans, a British engineer and a South Korean woman teacher. The rebels denied the charge.

The nine -- among them three German children and two women nurses -- belong to an international relief group that has been working at a hospital in Saada province bordering Saudi Arabia for 35 years, a local official said on Sunday.

Read more: http://www.canada.com/news/foreign+hostages+found+dead+Yemen+Officials/1697298/story.html

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[cali]

1. Yemen is clearly not a country that foreigners should visit.

Sad story.

[SkyDaddy7]

3. Yemen is going to be a nightmare soon...

[Captain Hilts]

2. There is a lot of bad shit happening in Southern S. Arabia and in Yemen. nt

[dipsydoodle]

4. Hostages' bodies 'found in Yemen'

Source: BBC News

At least seven foreign hostages seized in Yemen, including at least one child, have been found dead, officials say.

They were reportedly part of a group of nine foreigners, three of them children, who were kidnapped last week in a mountainous northern area.

The group comprised seven Germans, a male British engineer and a female South Korean teacher.

So far no-one has claimed responsibility for the attack blamed by Yemen on a local Shia rebel group.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8100500.stm

[MADem]

5. Jesus, that sucks.

The Yemeni government blamed a local Shia rebel group, led by Abdulmalik al-Houthi, for the kidnapping.

The group has fought a sporadic insurgency in the Zaidi Shia heartland between the capital, Sanaa, and the border with Saudi Arabia.

But it denied any involvement in a statement.

A local tribal leader in the area, speaking to the Associated Press news agency anonymously, blamed al-Qaeda.

Al-Qaeda is known to have operated in the area, and analysts say it may be regrouping in Yemen after coming under pressure in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

CIA Director Leon Panetta said last week that Somalia and Yemen may have become safe havens for the group.

Yemeni authorities said on Sunday they had arrested Hassan Hussein Bin Alwan, described as the al-Qaeda's financier in the region and one of its "most dangerous members".

[moobu2]

6. The people I work for just got back from Yemen 2 weeks ago

They were supposed to go on a cruise but because of the pirate activity in the Gulf Of Aden it was canceled and there were threats in Yemen against foreigners that caused their trip there to be cut short as well. I love these people, a retired doctor and his wife, and I’m glad they made it back safe. They love to travel and always go to very exotic, sometimes dangerous places. I’m sorry to read about these deaths, how horrible.

[WriteDown]

7. That's interesting...

I'm always hearing of retired doctors travelling the world once they leave the profession. That luxury doesn't exist for most. Something has to change in regards to pay for doctors..

Sorry, off on a tangent. Glad your friends are safe though.

[moobu2]

8. I know exactly what you mean

I work for mostly retired doctors and they're all wealthy as hell. Every one of them I work for are fantastic people though, and are very good to me. I'm a self employed contractor and I cant even afford health insurance, and I’d be bankrupted and homeless if I ever have a health crisis. Anyway, I've talked to one of them at length about the system and he said it was broken and needed to be overhauled. I think most of them know it isn’t sustainable the way it is. I think the insurance companies and big pharma are going to be the biggest obstacle to change and some doctors but I don’t think the ones I work for would object much.

[ohio2007]

9. hree German children and two women nurses -- belong to an international relief group... what group ?

Local sources said the group was a Christian Baptist organization that also has a medical team in the hospital at Jebla, south of Sanaa, where an Islamist militant killed three American doctors in December 2002.



They never learn that "turn the other cheek" is what "these people" live for