Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has released the Algerian driver of the French national kidnapped in the Inabagharit region of northern Niger. He was taken taken into Mali, where he was blindfolded and beaten until AQIM fighters decided to release him in the desert. The Algerian government revealed that it would have refused to pay his ransom.
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