Intercepts indicating hostages about to be killed triggered rescue mission

June 3rd, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

“On the other side, they were going to kill one of them to send a message. They wanted five prisoners released from Pul-e-Charkhi prison and they wanted a large ransom.” Miss Johnston, a 28-year-old nutritionist, and Moragwe Oirere, a 26-year-old Kenyan health worker, were yesterday still in Britain’s Kabul embassy, where they were reported to be in good health.

Nisar Ahmad and Lotfullah, their Afghan colleagues at the Swiss-based charity Medair, were also freed safely.

The four had been kidnapped on May 22 as they trekked on horseback to treat malnourished children in Badakhshan province.

They were seized in Yaftal district by a bandit called Abdul Ahad Mujahir who led a band of more than 40 men.

Mujahir smuggled his captives into neighbouring Shahr-e-Bozorg district and secreted them in the remote Morcha Valley of a mountainous forested area close to the Tajik border.

He and his band had demanded the release of bandits from the area including convicted murderers and thieves.

Among their requests was the release of a notorious killer called Jamal, who had been convicted of murdering his own brother and sister and up to 11 others, Mr Taheri said.

They also wanted the release of Commander Enayatullah, an associate of Jamal’s who had been convicted of attacking a police post and killing two policemen.

Coalition and Afghan officials said the kidnappers had links to Taliban insurgents, but police sources in the province said they were common criminals rather than ideologically motivated.

Intelligence officials managed to intercept conversations between the kidnappers last week in which they discussed moving their hostages across the border to a cave complex called Sufa Baghistan.

Mr Cameron said over the weekend that it had been “extraordinarily difficult” to order the raid to go ahead.

A similar raid two years ago to free Linda Norgrove, a Scottish aid worker kidnapped in Kunar province, ended in tragedy when she was accidentally killed by a grenade in the confusion.

“It was an extraordinarily brave, breathtaking even, operation that our troops had to carry out,” he said.