Posted on 11/20/2015 5:51:47 AM PST by Enlightened1
Gunmen have taken 170 hostages, killing three so far at the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Bamako. The gunmen are reported to be releasing people that can recite verses from the Quran.
Automatic weapon fire was heard from outside the 190-room hotel in the city-centre where security forces have set up a security cordon, according to Agence France Presse. Security sources told AFP the gunmen were "jihadists" who had entered the hotel compound in a car that had diplomatic plates.
"It's all happening on the seventh floor, jihadists are firing in the corridor," one security source said.
Malian soldiers, police and special forces were on the scene as a security perimeter was set up, along with members of the UN's MINUSMA peacekeeping force in Mali and the French troops fighting jihadists in west Africa under Operation Barkhane.
French troops are believed to have been stationed at the hotel.
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Just somewhere read that USA SF is there and GIGN is enroute.
Independence from France 1960. Muslim 95%. Much more here -
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ml.html
GIGN?
is that the lawyer battalion?
The French were just about to move some of their Mali troops to Syria or related anti terror ops, and the UN or EU was going to send Irish troops to Mali to replace them
What a world of peace and tolerance, eh Mr Hollande?
God help the people in the hotel, it could be anywhere, any time
Could the terrorists possibly have the name “mo hammed” or some variation?
GIGN is a French spec ops unit.
Already pretty clear that it’s that mob again- they let hostages go that could recite passages from the Koran.
I don’t understand why prestige hotels such as this one don’t have really efficient security 24/7.
Those harmless widows and orphans are at it again.
Trump: This was obviously caused by Pamela Geller. Someone provoked the poor things by drawing Mohammad. Lol
look its patentenly those mad amish...
In this day and time...you have to be foolish to travel to such a country. You may not be able to help it if it is your job. But you are talking your life into your hands every time you step into one of these 3rd world hell holes.
I travels a LOT in the 1980s and into the late 1990s. You could not pay me enough to do so now.
God help the hostages and bless them and their loved ones. God help the troops who are tasked with taking down these animals.
In order to defeat radical Islam we are going to have to munt a campaign similar to what we did to the Nazis and Imperial Japanese.
Turn all of their cities into rubble. Kill all who fight us, or who support those fighting. Indiscriminant bombing, humbling the entire people...until the beg us to stop and accept unconditional surrender.
Then we will have to spend 30 years occupying what’s left turning them into civilized nations just like we did Germany and Japan.
That’s what it is going to take. Anything less will just prolong the butchery.
I sure hope that certain prestige hotels in America have real efficient security 24/7
You’re probably right.
Have you ever been to West Africa?
Troops stationed at a Radisson Hotel?
What could possibly go wrong?
The tactics change when the hotels do have enhanced security. The jihadi’s will send in a car bomb or two to blow up any barriers, kill any security.
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