Posted on 11/20/2015 5:56:42 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Security forces have reportedly begun a counterassault on a hotel in the capital of the West African nation of Mali, where officials say gunmen took dozens of hostages and killed at least three people Friday morning.
The situation began around 7 a.m. at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, when two or three attackers stormed the hotel, firing guns and taking a number of hostages, officials said.
By noon, at least 80 hostages had been freed, the country's state broadcaster, ORTM, reported. The hotel had 140 guests and 30 employees, hotel officials said, though Malian Security Minister Salif Traore said on ORTM that it wasn't clear how many of the guests were there at the time of the attack.
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Any orphans around?
Mali...just the place for our winter holiday.
Independence from France 1960. Muslim 95%. Much more here -
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ml.html
At Mali's request, France launched an offensive in 2013 after radical Islamists seized the strategic town of Konna.
The ground and air campaign sent Islamist fighters who had seized the northern region fleeing into the vast desert.
There are no French troops stationed in Bamako right now, the French army said.
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.
CNN now reporting that US SF now in envolved in Mali hostage situation.
Good. Git ‘er done.
Hillary Clinton: Muslims Are ‘Peaceful and Tolerant,’ Have ‘Nothing Whatsoever to Do With Terrorism’
Whom are you going to believe, Hillary Clinton or reality?
November 19, 2015
Daniel Greenfield 
Via: frontpagemag.com
Gawd, what an ugly mug. And Arafat is no beauty either!
“Mali hotel attack: 3 dead after gunmen take captives at Radisson Blu in Bamako”
Mali hotel attack: 3 dead after “ISLAMIC RADICAL TERRORISTS” take captives at Radisson Blu in Bamako.
Fixed it.
Yes, you did!
When a Jackass and a Whorse mate, you get a Donkey!
...and to think that this “administration” couldn’t get the SF people to Benghazi.
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