2011 Timbuktu kidnapping
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2011-timbuktu-kidnapping-171-4138679
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2011 Timbuktu kidnapping
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Timbuktu three refers to three abductees, South African Stephen Malcolm McGown, Swede Johan Gustafsson and Dutchman Sjaak Rijke, who were all kidnapped on 25 November 2011. A fourth German victim was shot and killed when he refused to climb into the kidnappers' truck. A unit of the Al-Qaeda's North African branch: al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) abducted the three from a residence shortly after eating lunch at a restaurant in Timbuktu, Mali. Because McGown has dual citizenship, South Afri
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2011 kidnapping by Al-Qaeda
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Timbuktu_kidnapping
date created:
2015-03-25T08:18:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T05:51:57Z
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