Al Qaeda kills British hostage in Mali
June 04, 2009 00:00:00
DUBAI/LONDON, June 3 (Reuters): Al Qaeda's North African wing said Wednesday it had carried out its threat to kill a British hostage it was holding in the Sahara.
Britain said it had reason to believe the hostage, Edwin Dyer, had been killed and Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned the killing as "a barbaric act of terrorism."
An official source in Algeria told Reuters: "The Briton, according to our information, has been killed by AQIM (al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) in Mali."
