{"id":3559,"date":"2014-04-21T05:48:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T05:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2014-04-21T05:48:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T05:48:40","slug":"libyan-jihadist-group-parades-sobbing-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/04\/21\/3559\/","title":{"rendered":"Libyan jihadist group parades sobbing hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/libya%20jihadist%20group.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>A hostage kidnapped from the Tunisian embassy in Libya was seen sobbing in a video released on Monday by a jihadist group claiming his capture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The hostage, Mohammad ben Sheikh, is seen calling on Tunisia\u2019s president to help rescue him from his plight as he cries the five minute video posted to social networking sites. Sheikh is being held by a largely unknown group calling themselves Shabab al-Tawhid, according to Agence France-Presse.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cMr. President, why do you want to deprive me of life?.. There are no negotiations, they will not release me,\u201d he says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cMr. President, negotiate with them. I want to return to Tunisia. They can kill me at any time.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At the end of the video, the captors, in a message to the Tunisian government, claim: \u201cAs you imprison ours, we imprison yours. As you kill ours, we kill yours.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Authorities in Tunis are demanding the release of Libyans sentenced for their role in a 2011 \u201cterrorist operation\u201d in which two police officers died.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mohammad ben Sheikh is one of two officials recently kidnapped from the Tunisian embassy by assailants. The other is diplomat al-Aroussi Kontassi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Their abductions come during a string of attacks targeting diplomats in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jordan\u2019s ambassador to Libya has also been kidnapped and Portugal\u2019s embassy was attacked by gunmen.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Diplomats in the Libyan capital say militias which fought to topple the Muammar Qaddafi regime in the 2011 uprising often carry out kidnappings in order to blackmail other countries into releasing Libyans held abroad.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The North African country has been awash with weapons since the end of the uprising that killed Qaddafi and has been gripped by increasing lawlessness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> Alarabiya<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hostage kidnapped from the Tunisian embassy in Libya was seen sobbing in a video released on Monday by a jihadist group claiming his capture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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