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‘We will slit his throat’: Islamic State splinter group in Algeria releases video threatening to execute French hostage unless President Hollande stops air strikes in Iraq

Terror: French tourist, Herve Pierre Gourdel sitting between two armed jihadists at an undisclosed location. An Algerian militant group said it has kidnapped a Frenchman and threatened to execute him unless Paris halts air strikes on Islamic State jihadists in Iraq
- Herve Pierre Gourdel, 55, kidnapped while hiking with Algerian friends
- The group who took him have called on Hollande to stop air strikes on IS
- France mounted its first air strike to beat back the IS in Iraq on Friday
An Algerian group linked to Islamic State jihadists threatened to kill a French hostage within 24 hours unless Paris halts air strikes on the IS in Iraq, in a video posted Monday.
Jund al-Khilifa (Soldiers of the Caliphate), which has pledged allegiance to IS, said in the video that it carried out Sunday’s kidnapping of the Frenchman in a mountainous region of eastern Algeria where Al-Qaeda is active.
The hostage, Herve Pierre Gourdel, 55, white-haired and bespectacled, is shown squatting on the ground flanked by two hooded men clutching Kalashnikov assault rifles, as he asks for French President Francois Hollande to intervene.