Al Qaeda's North Africa affiliate says it's taken a Swiss
missionary hostage.
Beatrice Stockly, who'd been kidnapped by Islamist
militants once before in 2012, appeared Tuesday in a new video released by al
Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
In the roughly eight-minute video, a masked man with a
British accent demands that other prisoners be released in exchange for the
missionary. Stockly appears wearing a hijab and says she was kidnapped by the
group in Mali.
Earlier this month, the Swiss foreign ministry said it
had learned of the kidnapping of a Swiss citizen in Mali and convened a task
force to achieve her release.
Officials had advised her against returning to Mali after
the 2012 kidnapping incident, the foreign ministry said.
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