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HARDtalk: Robert Fowler - Former UN Special Representative to Niger

Ex UN envoy Robert Fowler

04/06/2013

Robert Fowler - Former UN Special Representative to Niger

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Robert Fowler - Former UN Special Representative to Niger

Zeinab Badawi talks to Robert Fowler a Canadian diplomat held hostage by Al Qaeda in Niger

Interviews with newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. Zeinab Badawi talks to Robert Fowler, a senior Canadian diplomat held hostage by Al Qaeda in Niger in 2009.

Robert Fowler, a senior Canadian diplomat, was held hostage for five months by Al Qaeda in Niger in 2009. He says that since his capture and release, terror attacks and events in the region, such as the brief Islamist takeover of northern Mali, should serve as a wake-up call of a jihadist danger. He believes militants aim to set up a seven thousand kilometre Islamic caliphate stretching from Mauritania to Somalia. Is he scaremongering, or does he have a point?

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