The Forgotten Three: The Fate of AQIM Timbuktu Hostages and Their Captor Belkacem Zouadi

02 December 2015Videos (above): Left Johan Gustafsson; Right Stephen McGown "Proof of Life Videos" released by AQIM.  For More on South Africa: GIFT OF THE GIVERS RECEIVES PROOF OF LIFE For Stephen McGown and Johan GustafssonVideoEDITORIAL NOTE: And then there were two..... On March 6th, 2015 French special forces freed Dutch captive Sjaak Rijke in an operation in northern Mali.One Thousand Days with AQIMThe video execution of American journalist James Foley by Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists on 19 August 2014 shocked the international community and generated instant global attention.  Yet in Holland, Sweden and South Africa three names of other hostages remained all but expunged from the national media.  Two days after Foley’s death was made public marked 1000 days in captivity for desert tourists Sjaak Rijke, Stephen McGowan and Johan Gustafsson, kidnapped from Timbuktu by al Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on 25 November…

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