Spanish aid workers freed by Al Qaeda in Mali
August 23, 2010
- Two Spanish aid workers held hostage for the past nine months by Al Qaeda’s North African branch have been freed in Mali, the Spanish government announced Monday. “Albert Vilalta and Roque Pasqual are free. They have been freed after spending 268 days in the hands of their kidnappers,” Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said in a brief televised statement. The release is “very good news” and “puts an end to a terrorist action which should never have happened”, Zapatero said. Vilalta, 35, and Pascual, 50, who worked…
