The route to the monastery is a frequent target by Bedouins who abduct tourists to pressure police to meet their demands, which is usually to release of a detained relative they say has been unjustly arrested

Updated 8:43 PM ET

(CBS/AP) CAIRO – The Egyptian Bedouin who abducted two Boston natives and their guide on Friday vowed he would take more hostages of different nationalities if police do not release his uncle from prison.

Speaking to The Associated Press by telephone, Jirmy Abu-Masuh of the Tarbeen tribe in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, said the captives would remain safe, but that more would be abducted if his uncle is not released.

“If my uncle gets 50 years (in prison), they will stay with me for 50 years. If they release him, I will release them,” he said of the captives. “Tomorrow I will kidnap other nationalities and their embassies will be notified for the whole world to know.”

Abu-Masuh, a 32-year-old truck driver, said the American man, 61, and woman, 39, were treated as “guests” and given tea, 함양출장업소 coffee and a traditional lamb dinner reserved for special occasions in Bedouin culture. He said that the man is a pastor from Massachusetts and that he had been allowed to call his wife.

Lissa Alphonse