Somalia: French hostage allegedly killed three jihadis who held him prisoner

I don’t see why the French would deny it, if he did kill three of them to escape. He was a HOSTAGE. This is a victory for the good guys. After all, the French security specialists were there to work with the local government to improve the security situation. And it is three fewer hbar-gidir Hawiye jihadis we have to worry about.

MOGADISHU – One of two French security advisers kidnapped by insurgents in Somalia last month escaped yesterday after killing three of his captors and fleeing to the presidential palace in Mogadishu, police said.Militants had seized the Frenchmen at a hotel in the capital on July 14th and handed one to the Hizbul Islam rebels and the other to fighters from the al-Shabaab group, which Washington describes as al-Qaeda’s proxy in the Horn of Africa state.Al-Shabaab militants said they had later taken custody of both men, although that could not be confirmed. Somali government officials at the city’s hilltop Villa Somalia palace said the man who escaped was in good health.“We understand he killed three al-Shabaab guys who were guarding him. I cannot understand how this good story happened, but now he is in the hands of the government,” Abdiqadir Odweyne, a senior policeman, said.Somalia’s fragile UN-backed government faces a stubborn insurgency mounted by al-Shabaab and others. They have been joined by foreign jihadists who Western security agencies say are using the country as a safe haven to plot attacks in the region and beyond.An al-Shabaab source confirmed three of its members were killed, but said it was not known by whom: “Three of my friends died but who killed them is the question. We were expecting a ransom this morning,” the rebel source said...more..http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0827/1224253336524.html