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23 Sep. 2014
AIT OUABAN, Algeria
Algerian military soldiers patrol a mountain near the village of Ait Ouabane, where a Frenchman was kidnapped by militants on Sunday, southeast of Algiers September 23, 2014. Algerian military and police set up checkpoints and sent troops into mountains east of Algiers on Tuesday to look for the Frenchman kidnapped by militants who threatened to execute him over France's intervention in Iraq. The Caliphate Soldiers, a splinter group linked to Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, on Monday published a video claiming responsibility for the abduction and showed a man identifying himself as Herve Gourdel, a tourist from Nice. REUTERS/Louafi Larbi (ALGERIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT MILITARY)
