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Algeria reportedly completes hostages rescue, after 2 Americans escape
Foxnews ^ | January 17, 2013

Posted on 01/17/2013 2:42:02 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Two Americans escaped unharmed Thursday from a hostage standoff with an Al Qaeda-linked group as Algeria's state news agency reports special forces have completed a rescue operation to free the remaining foreign hostages, but casualties have been reported.

Algerian state television said that four captives, two Britons and two Filipinos have died. But the militants said at least 35 hostages had died in the state's rescue attempt. There was no way to independently verify the toll in the remote location, 800 miles from Algiers.

The two Americans who managed to escape the Ain Amenas gas plant where they were being held are en route to London.

A senior U.S. official tells Fox News that at least one unarmed U.S. drone is patrolling the Ain Amenas gas plant to provide intelligence on the situation. At least 20 gunmen attacked and took over the vast complex early Wednesday, reportedly in retaliation for France's military intervention against Al Qaeda-linked rebels in neighboring Mali, though Fox News sources say the attack may have been planned much earlier.

The reports of high casualties have deeply disturbed foreign governments, prompting a number to criticize Algeria's operation. Britain's Foreign Office attempted to prepare the British public by saying, "We should be under no illusion that there will be some bad and distressing news to follow from this terrorist attack."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ainamenas; algeria; algeriahostagecrisis; amenas; bp; jihadwar; mali; maliwar; statoil

1 posted on 01/17/2013 2:42:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Like the passengers of flight 93, any American grabbed by muzzies can assume they won’t survive the encounter and may as well die fighting (or trying to escape). This is “total war”, and the old rules are out the window.

Islam can’t win on the conventional battlefield, so this is the new face of war.


2 posted on 01/17/2013 2:46:57 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic war against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Bush`s fault


3 posted on 01/17/2013 2:49:35 PM PST by bunkerhill7 ( Lend a friend a gun)
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To: kristinn; TigersEye; Marine_Uncle; justa-hairyape; onyx; SunkenCiv; blam; Fred Nerks; SierraWasp; ..

Video report from Jennifer Griffin at the Pentagon:


4 posted on 01/17/2013 2:51:25 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: All

Not sure i believe the headline statement that “It’s over”.


5 posted on 01/17/2013 2:54:35 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
A senior U.S. official tells Fox News that at least one unarmed U.S. drone is patrolling the Ain Amenas gas plant to provide intelligence on the situation Oh great the WH letting the enemy know what they are doing.
6 posted on 01/17/2013 3:00:40 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
reportedly in retaliation for France's military intervention against Al Qaeda-linked rebels in neighboring Mali,

This is all chain reaction from toppling Ghaddafi. The Rice-Clinton-Powers strategy that Obama adopted is completely responsible for the events in Benghazi, Mali, and now Algeria. Ghaddafi's weapons went to Mali which has become an Al Queda hotspot because of US intervention in Libya.

Why is Hollande now leading the mission instead of the US? It's all a sham. Obama is likely calling the shots but France is covering O's back so his base doesn't get upset.

7 posted on 01/17/2013 3:18:37 PM PST by what's up
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

My brother worked for Texaco in N. Africa 30 years ago. It is way past time for these worthless Algerians et alia learn how to get their own gas and oil out of the ground.


8 posted on 01/17/2013 3:19:59 PM PST by HChampagne
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To: what's up

Yep,....see the Video ....


9 posted on 01/17/2013 3:27:52 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

As a little background, the homegrown Algerian terrorist movement (1991-’97) were known for their Red Khmer type brutality, things like capturing and beheading every person in a string of villages. So the Algerian government learned to not mess around with such villains.

That is, rescuing hostages is just a bonus. The primary mission is to insure that every single terrorist is dead. And this earned a lot of cooperation from the Algerian people as well, giving the terrorists no safe haven or support.


10 posted on 01/17/2013 3:32:05 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Cousin of Ben Ghastly gone right?

If at first they don't suck seed....
suck and suck till they do suck seed.

11 posted on 01/17/2013 3:42:25 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

This is a long way from Algeria’s populated areas and just across the Libyan border. I wonder where these terrorists came from?


12 posted on 01/17/2013 3:43:43 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks.


13 posted on 01/17/2013 5:29:14 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (I'm going John Galt.... But. Honor must be earned.)
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