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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America France wants to hear Qaeda's hostage demands AFP - Friday, September 24 Send IM Story Print France wants to hear Qaeda's hostage demands PARIS (AFP) - – France was trying Thursday to contact Al-Qaeda in a bid to open negotiations for the release of five French hostages kidnapped in the Sahara, after the group warned against any rescue attempt. Defence Minister Herve Morin told RTL radio that Paris believes the five French nationals and two Africans working for French firms are alive and being held in northern Mali, one week after they were taken captive in Niger. "For the moment our concern is to be able to enter in contact with Al-Qaeda, to know what the demands are, which we haven't received," Morin said, in what appeared to be Paris' first acknowledgement that it is ready to open talks. "What we want is for Al-Qaeda at some point to put demands on the table," he explained. "In other cases, they have negotiated." At the Elysee Palace in Paris, President Nicolas Sarkozy brought together a war cabinet of senior ministers and France's top military, intelligence and police chiefs to discuss the crisis. The French foreign ministry refused to comment directly on Morin's comments, simply underlining that France has mobilised all its resources to win the safe return of the hostages. "I don't want to say more because, in such situations, discretion is a condition for the effectiveness of our action," said spokesman Romain Nadal. On Thursday last week, gunmen seized the five French -- including a married couple -- as well as a Togolese and a Madagascan in a raid on two houses in the uranium mining town of Arlit in the deserts of northern Niger. Most of the hostages work for France's state-owned nuclear giant Areva or its engineering sub-contractor Satom, and the firms have since withdrawn foreign workers from their uranium mining operations in Niger. Al-Qaeda's north African branch, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), claimed responsibility for the kidnap and on Thursday warned France not to risk an attempt to use military force to rescue the hostages. France says AQIM's claim of responsibility is genuine, and officials believe the hostages have been taken to a remote and arid range of mountains deep in the Sahara in Mali near the Algerian border. "We have not received any proof of life, but we have every reason to think they are alive," Morin said. AQIM -- which formed when Algerian Islamist rebels pledged allegiance to Saudi-born global jihadi figurehead Osama bin Laden -- posted an Internet statement claiming the hostage taking was revenge for a French raid. The assault took place on July 22, when French and Mauritanian troops stormed an Al-Qaeda base in northern Mali and killed seven militants, but failed to find a previous French hostage, 78-year-old Michel Germaneau. AQIM leader Abu Musab Abdul Wadud has said that Germaneau was subsequently executed in retaliation for the raid, although French officials suspect the elderly aid worker may have died beforehand. In a statement released Tuesday through Al-Jazeera and the YouTube video website, AQIM said: "We inform the French government that the mujahedeen will send their legitimate demands later and warn it against any other stupidity." Morin said France had received no other communication from the kidnappers. France has dispatched a military intelligence team to Niger equipped with spotter planes and President Nicolas Sarkozy said Wednesday that France will mobilise all its organs of state to ensure the release of hostages. Paris has not ruled out the use of military force to attempt a rescue, but analysts say that would be extremely difficult to pull off, especially if the kidnappers have divided their captives among different locations. Despite repeated denials, France has earned a reputation over the years for paying off kidnappers -- with cash and by prisoner exchanges -- to protect its economic interests and the lives of is citizens. After Germaneau's death, however, Sarkozy signalled a new tougher stance. "It can't be our only strategy to pay ransoms and to agree to free prisoners in exchange for unlucky innocent victims. That can't be a strategy," he complained, after Madrid ransomed two Spanish hostages. France also faces a second west African hostage crisis. Three French seamen were kidnapped by pirates on Wednesday from an oil industry supply ship working off the southern coast of Niger's neighbour Nigeria. The second hostage-taking was not related, but adds to the pressure on Paris as it tries to resolve the crisis. Recommend Send IM Story Print Related Articles Fresh Mogadishu fighting kills 19 civilians: medics AFP - Friday, September 24 Obama urges world to back Middle East peace plan AFP - 20 minutes ago Highlights - World leaders address U.N. 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