Sister of jailed Egypt activist urges IS not to kill Croat

Reuters reports the threat to the Croatian hostage was delivered in a video entitled “A Message to the Egyptian Government”, in which the captive Salopek-clad in the orange jumpsuit ISIS forces on all its prisoners-is made to kneel and identify himself for the camera. “Nothing else”, Zlatko Salopek told AFP at the family’s home in the eastern Croatian town of Vrpolje.

The Foreign Ministry said Pusic was in contact with Egyptian officials.

The unprecedented abduction in the North African country has rattled foreigners who flock to Egypt to work for multinational companies, while underscoring the jihadists’ reach despite a massive military campaign against them.

Egypt faces increasingly sophisticated attacks from militant organizations, including an affiliate of the Islamic State group.

He seems to be referring to ladies arrested in a sweeping authorities crackdown after Egypt’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi was deposed two years in the past in a popularly supported army coup.

Salopek was kidnapped July 22 while on his way to Cairo, Egypt. He was reportedly driving to work and was abducted after a group of armed men stopped him, according to a statement by the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nine other troops were wounded, they said.

Salopek’s public LinkedIn profile listed him as a “Topographer at CGG”, which once stood for Compangie Générale de Géophysique, a company that is based in Paris and provides services to clients in the gas and oil industries.

CAIRO (AP) — The sister of a woman jailed in Egypt for alleged ties to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood is urging the Islamic State group not to kill a Croatian hostage.

It was not clear where the militants were holding Salopek in the vast and mostly desert country. “If not, the soldiers of Wilayat al-Sina will kill me”, he says, using the Arabic name of the militant group, which is also known as Sinai Province.

Egyptian officers didn’t instantly touch upon the video, which was launched the day earlier than the nation plans to unveil an $eight.5-billion extension of the Suez Canal.

Militants also attempted attacks near the Pyramids of Giza and the Karnak Temple at Luxor, Egypt’s most popular tourist destinations, in an ominous turn for the government, which depends heavily on the foreign currency generated by tourism.