[Lady Johanna]

Isn't Morrocco where the foreign tourists were missing? German and Swiss tourists? and security forces from those countries had gone to Morocco to assist the local police? Is there any recent information on the tourists' whereabouts?

Lady Johanna

[backhoe]

Let's see what's handy:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/914033/posts
Last Sahara tourists free and alive - Report
CNN.COM ^

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/911396/posts
Kidnapped tourists were held by Algerian Islamist group
Radio Netherlands ^ | May 14 2003

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/899725/posts
Report: Al-Qaeda-related group holding hostage 31 European tourists in Algeria
Al Bawaba, the Middle East Gateway ^ | April 24 2003