Somali militants claim French hostage executed

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MOGADISHU, Somalia Somalia's most dangerous militant group says it has killed a French hostage that French military forces tried to rescue last weekend.

Al-Shabab said in a Twitter posting Thursday that the agent, codenamed Denis Allex, was executed Wednesday evening Somalia time.

French officials have said they believe Allex was killed the night of the raid. Allex, a French intelligence agent, was taken by the militants in July 2009 and had been held ever since.

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A French raid Friday night and early Saturday failed to rescue him, and resulted in the deaths of two French troops and 17 Somalis, French officials say.

[judymar14]

I wonder if his body was desecrated like the body of the 'insurgeant' in Afghanistan which four of our finest are on trial for peeing on?

Now that this poor man has been killed, the French should bomb these 'militants' to kingdom come. Or would that be against laws of humanity Western countries have to follow?