NIAMEY – Dozens of French soldiers operating out of a hotel in Niger’s capital and using reconnaissance flights over the Sahara searched yesterday for seven workers for a French firm, Areva, who were kidnapped from near a uranium mine and seemingly swallowed by the vast desert.
‘Their mission is to help Niger’s military find the seven kidnapped people,’ said Niger government spokesman Mahamane Laouli Dan Dah.French Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal told reporters in Paris that it is ‘highly probable’ that al Queda’s North Africa branch, known as AQIM, is behind the kidnappings. Five of those kidnapped by gunmen on Thursday are French citizens.- Nampa-AP
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