British hostage Edwin Dyer executed by alQaeda in Mali

Jun. 3, 2009
Edwin Dyer a British hostage has been executed by alQaeda in West Africa in an "appalling and barbaric act of terrorism" after the government refused to release the radical preacher Abu Qatada.
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