Canada admits that Al Qaeda (AQIM) was responsible for kidnapping of Canadian diplomats

I hate the way reporters  from almost all our main newspapers in Canada do their reporting.  Why can't they come out and say exactly how things are?  Why call this Al Qaeda person a "bandit" and infer that he has "ties" to Al Qaeda but is a "fugitive al-Qaeda-aligned bandit"?   Mokhtar Belmokhtar   is the leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreh (AQIM).  That's it.  Why go around that fact?  For what?  

Here's what the status is as we should see it:
1) Under the Conservative govt.  a ransom was paid to Al Qaeda for freeing two Canadian diplomats.  Did the govt. pay the ransom money or was it a collection from private individuals ...that we do not know..... as yet;
2) The Conservative govt and I presume every member of the other three parties walking the halls of power in Ottawa know that Al Qaeda is an enemy of Canada and Canadians;

3) Knowing that Al Qaeda and affiliates are our sworn enemies,  the Harper govt. is still  not averse to siding with the USA, UK and other powers who desire to arm Al Qaeda and affiliates  in Syria in order to oust Assad.
We should never forget that .... especially at the next Federal election.

Colin Freeze and Les Perreaux writing at TheGlobe&Mail:
.....Bandit with ties to al-Qaeda charged by RCMP for abducting diplomats. Canadian police have charged Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a fugitive al-Qaeda-aligned bandit based in the Sahara Desert, with the kidnapping of two Canadian diplomats almost five years ago.

The charges amount to a largely symbolic act against one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, given there is almost no conceivable scenario where Canadian authorities will get to arrest or try him and his co-accused.........