You have to read this whole article to finally get who did it. It reads, ‘gunmen gunmen gunmen’ as if it was NRA members destroying tourism in all of Africa. Eventually they bother to mention its religious Muslims, AKA, Al-Queda.
"Objects in history may be closer than they appear" – Eeyore for Vlad
I am surprised they put it in at the end.
Right at the end we have
Quote: Neither kidnapping has yet been claimed by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM
So note EE, they could still be just “gunmen” of the NRA.
It doesn’t have to be al Qaeda, there are a lot of other groups who are doing this, the point if that the religion of the abductors and their possible motive wasn’t mentioned until the very last and then in passing.