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Edwin Dyer was kidnapped in Mali four months ago. Photograph: IntelCenter/PA
He told the Commons at question time that those responsible for the murder of Edwin Dyer in Mali would be "hunted down and brought to justice".
He said: "I, and the whole house, will utterly condemn this appalling and barbaric act of terrorism. Our thoughts and condolences are with the family."
Sky News said Dyer had been beheaded, but the Foreign Office said reports of this should be "treated with caution".
The group, al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said in a statement quoted by Reuters that it killed Dyer on Saturday when its second deadline expired for the British government to release Abu Qatada, the Jordanian known as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe.
"The British captive was killed so that he, and with him the British state, may taste a tiny portion of what innocent Muslims taste every day at the hands of the crusader and Jewish coalition to the east and to the west," the statement said.
Dyer and a group of other European tourists had been attending a Tuareg cultural festival in a remote part of eastern Mali when they were ambushed on 22 January near Timbuktu. The German tour operator Oase Reisen said at the time that attackers shot the tyres of the car carrying the tourists, forcing it to stop.
Dyer's ordeal started with a so-called "show execution", where kidnappers fired a gun an inch away from the head of a member of his party as they attacked the group's convoy.
Dyer, who was thought to be in his late 50s or early 60s, spoke fluent German and was working in Austria. He was attacked and taken hostage with three other tourists – two Swiss citizens and a German woman.
In April AQIM released two of the other hostages, Marianne Petzold from Germany and Gabriella Greitner from Switzerland, along with a Canadian diplomat and his assistant taken in a separate kidnapping. Their captors said they were exchanged for four of their imprisoned fighter
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Jun 03, 2009 at 11:24 AM Anonymous Says:
Baruch Dayan Emes...hashem should have rachmonis on the family of this poor individual.
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Jun 03, 2009 at 12:30 PM Anonymous Says:
Everyone knows there is no danger from al-keida or any terrorist groups. This is probably just a fear mongering story leaked by the evil Bush admininstration. Obama is here and with it, hope and change!! He'll talk nice to the muslims and everyone will be freinds. Its all a big misunderstanding that is being cleared up...
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Jun 03, 2009 at 12:29 PM Manny Says:
“ Baruch Dayan Emes...hashem should have rachmonis on the family of this poor individual. ”
God is a Dayin Emes for sure. But this particular victim was not Jewish.
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Jun 03, 2009 at 01:10 PM Peace My Aunt Fanny!!! Says:
you can't talk to animals when they don't want to listen to you! you hear that all you liberal left wingers out there?? you hear that osama obama & gordon brown??? keep condemning all you want to but till you learn they don't care about your condemnation, you will have lots to condemn.
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Jun 03, 2009 at 01:29 PM FVNMS Says:
“ God is a Dayin Emes for sure. But this particular victim was not Jewish. ”
You know... people like you aren't shown much mercy by their fellow VIN readers. Let me be the first: you're an idiot.
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Jun 03, 2009 at 01:28 PM Andrew Says:
“ God is a Dayin Emes for sure. But this particular victim was not Jewish. ”
Manny -- what is the point you felt necessary to make? That Hashem should not have rachmonis on this person's family?
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Jun 03, 2009 at 01:52 PM Anonymous Says:
Welcome to the real world Gordon Brown
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Jun 03, 2009 at 01:20 PM Yankel Says:
Hardly news. A release would be news, but beheading seems to be the standard operating proceedure of these Moslem fanatics.
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Jun 03, 2009 at 02:28 PM get withit Says:
“ God is a Dayin Emes for sure. But this particular victim was not Jewish. ”
hashem didnt make the jew in his image, he made MAN In his image and he cries for any lost soul, jewish or otherwise
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Jun 03, 2009 at 02:30 PM Shua Says:
I hope people do not misunderstand what I am about to say and claim that I'm "blaming the victim." BUT, when will intelligent (but extremely naive) western tourists realize: STAY AWAY FROM MOSLEM COUNTRIES! IF YOU DON'T, YOU ARE DELIBERATELY RISKING YOUR LIFE! How many beheadings will it take for the message to sink in?
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Jun 03, 2009 at 03:06 PM Anonymous Says:
re: yankel (#8)
it is very sad that some people have become so de-sensitized that they feel that the beheading of a human being is no longer news worthy.
re: shua (#10)
i agree with you 100%, but also want to add journalists to that list. its very nice to want to get a story, but its naive to think that you can go into hostile territory and come out unscathed. if you are not one of them, you are the enemy and are putting your life at risk.
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Jun 03, 2009 at 03:04 PM Anonymous Says:
Excuse me but shouldn't Gordon Brown get off the fence and decide whether he likes Moslems or not ==after all, he has quite a few in his own country, and he never said that he disliked them!!!
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Jun 03, 2009 at 04:42 PM Avrohom Abba Says:
Interesting and typical! The murderers don't blame themselves. They instead blame the victims!!
Only fools and people lost in denial allow and understand this behavior.
Wait, more news should come out tomorrow announcingthat children inIran were given candies and sweets to celebrate the beheading. Also, we must not forget...their god told Mohamed to tell them that god said that they will get 72 virgin sixteen year olds in pedophile heaven because they killed and shed blood. Isn't it amazing what the creator of their universe can think of? What a dep thinker and what a reward!! Wow! Now that's really mature thinking, right? Yes, this is what one billion out of eight billion people in this world think is the truth.
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Jun 04, 2009 at 05:41 PM Anonymous Says:
“ I hope people do not misunderstand what I am about to say and claim that I'm "blaming the victim." BUT, when will intelligent (but extremely naive) western tourists realize: STAY AWAY FROM MOSLEM COUNTRIES! IF YOU DON'T, YOU ARE DELIBERATELY RISKING YOUR LIFE! How many beheadings will it take for the message to sink in? ”
The travel company in Germany is still arranging trips to the very same area Edwin Dyer was abducted why?
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Jun 04, 2009 at 09:19 PM TZAZ Says:
Gordon Brown said they won't rest until these savages are brought to justice, what a laugh. If the government of Great Briton assigns some lackey in the foreign office to write a report I would be surprised. The western Europeans are statistically defeated already and are to dumb to fight back. Obama is taking us down the same road.