It is currently being studied by local authorities and by F.B.I. agents seeking to capture the kidnappers.
Officials said that the Seals had intended to capture the kidnappers, but, for reasons that have not been explained, nine were killed.
Even as the U.S., French and British governments offered this week to help Nigerian authorities find the girls and capture the kidnappers, the bloodshed worsened.
THE COLLECTOR (which I mentioned above) does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope of every second crime novel: the weirdo, fetishistic watcher/stalker/kidnapper/kidnapper of women or children.
The two captured kidnappers provided the location of the other kidnappers and their prisoners, The A.P. said.
In a video released Thursday, the kidnappers said they had captured the Italian in an attempt to free Mr. Saidani, and that they would execute him in 30 hours — at 5 p.m. on Friday — if their demands were not met.
It quoted the kidnappers as saying they hoped they could also capture the couple's children, Brooklyn, 3, and 2-month-old Romeo.
The last was for capturing kidnappers of a banker's son shortly before his retirement on June 30 , 1971 as commander in charge of robbery-homicide.
But the Algerian official did not say why the captured kidnapper's assertion — that some fighters had taken part in both the Benghazi and Algerian attacks — should be considered trustworthy.
An unusually argumentative moderator, however, concludes that Obama has brilliantly adopted Mel Gibson's strategy in the movie Ransom about how to flip risk; instead of paying his son's kidnappers a $2 million ransom, the actor instead pledged to pay $2 million to anyone giving information leading to the kidnappers' capture (which worked).
