French authorities say the American hostage freed by a pre-dawn rescue operation in Burkina Faso last week would have been transferred to an al Qaeda-linked group had the deadly raid not occurred.
would have been transferred to an al Qaeda-linked group had the deadly raid not occurred, according to French authorities.
The risk of them ending up with an extremist group in Mali — which would have made efforts to free them impossible — triggered the operation early Friday, Lecointre added.
French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly has said only that there are"two principal terrorist movements that operate in this zone — one is affiliated with al Qaeda, and the other with the Islamic State." "The way you assess who is responsible is by looking at who’s been operating there and what the tactics were like," Zenn added.Who is the American hostage?As the two French citizens and the South Korean woman were flown back to Paris, the American was nowhere to be seen. It is also unclear where the U.S. woman went missing, but Lecointre said she had been held for 28 days.
The medals awarded to slain French commandos Cedric de Pierrepont and Alain Bertoncello are presented during a ceremony in Paris on Tuesday.The Department of Defense has told NBC News that the U.S. woman was in aged in her 60s but did not give any further details. "We were not aware of their presence," French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly told a news conference.
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