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Five Italian hostages released in Yemen
AFP, January, 2006
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MARIB, Yemen (AFP) — Five Italians kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen were released and their captors arrested, ending the latest hostage crisis in the impoverished country.
"We are happy the nightmare is over," Andrea Polato, 24, son of one of the hostages, Camilla Ramigni, told Italy's Ansa news agency.
The three women and two men arrived at Sanaa airport in a military helicopter which had carried them from the lawless region of Marib 170 kilometres (100 miles) east of the capital where they were snatched on Sunday.
The official SABA news agency said the five were freed "in a military operation" while a tribal dignitary involved in negotiations said both mediation and military action had secured their release.
"A massacre would have taken place had it not been for talks and mediations," Sheikh Jouail Touaiman, who met the kidnappers last on Thursday, told AFP Friday.
Italy had demanded that the ...
