WikiLeaks confirms ransom paid for Robert Fowler and Louis Guay
Robert Fowler and Louis Guay were held captive by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb for five months before they were...
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Michael Petrou
Senior writer Michael Petrou has covered conflict across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. He is the author of ’Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War’, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award, and ’Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World’, which won it. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
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