Algerian village reacts to news of Frenchman kidnapped nearby

Somewhere in these mountains of Algeria, east of Algiers, a Frenchman may be held kidnapped.<br/> <br />He was snatched Sunday while driving through the mountains near the village of Ait Ouabane.<br/> <br />His abductors are the Caliphate Soldiers, a splinter group of Islamic State.<br/> <br />They've released a video threatening to execute Herve Gourdel, a tourist from Nice, over France's involvement in a U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State.<br/> <br />Algeria's military fought a brutal decade-long war in the 1990's against Islamist militants.<br/> <br />But attacks now are rare in this North African state.<br/> <br />Gourdel's kidnapping is one of the first abductions of a foreigner by militants here since the end of that war.<br/> <br />Residents of Ait Ouabane just can't imagine that a kidnapping happened right in their midst.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (French) HAMID, 45 YEAR OLDS VILLAGER, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Our village is safe. Nobody enters the village without permission. This information is completely fake."<br/> <br />(SOU