British and Italian hostages murdered by captors in special forces rescue bid in Nigeria In August a Nigerian group calling itself 'Al Qaeda in the land beyong the Sahil' announced it had captured a British man. It released a hostage video to a Mauritius news agency. It showed a blindfolded and bearded man in an orange jumpsuit, alongside three men in dark clothing armed with Kalashnikov rifles and a machete. The man asked the British Government to answer the demands of the group to save his life. He called on the British people to pressurise the Government into acting, so that he could return to his family, according to Shura al Mujahideen fee Junubu Afarika, a South African Islamist website. One of the kidnappers said it would be the "last mesage" issued to Mr Cameron about the hostage. The speaker said the British government had failed to answer their demands and it was given two weeks to "take the correct decision."