Posted on 01/17/2013 2:40:39 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
(Reuters) - Thirty hostages and at least 11 Islamist militants were killed on Thursday when Algerian forces stormed a desert gas plant in a bid to free many dozens of Western and local captives, an Algerian security source said.
Two Japanese, two Britons and a French national were among at least seven foreigners killed, the source told Reuters. Eight of the dead hostages were Algerian. The nationalities of the rest, as well as of perhaps dozens more who escaped, were unclear.
Americans, Norwegians, Romanians and an Austrian have also been mentioned by their governments as having been captured.
Underlining the view of African and Western leaders that they face a multinational, al Qaeda-linked insurgency across the Sahara - a conflict that prompted France to send troops to neighboring Mali last week - the official source said only two of the 11 dead militants were Algerian, including their leader.
After an operation that appeared to go on for some eight hours, after Algeria refused the kidnappers' demand to leave the country with their hostages, the bodies of three Egyptians, two Tunisians, two Libyans, a Malian and a Frenchman were found. . .
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And why, may I ask, do we give any allegiance to Islamists?
bobo
As usual the Islamofascists are an international gang.
I sure am glad that there are no radical Islamists or Al Qaeda or bad people doing bad things in the world. I know this is true because the ROP won’t allow it and our pres__ent has said guns are bad.
I want a pony for my birthday.
La la la la la la
What video caused this?
Your pres__ent also said that Al Qaeda was on the run and no longer a threat.
God Bless these brave Algerians who attempted this rescue.
God Bless these brave Algerians who attempted this rescue.
Who is setting up banana peels to trip on?
Lisa “Email” Jackson
Turbo Tax Timmy
Hitlery
La Raza Solis
Robert “Fibs” Gibbs
Who will fall on their sword for the Marxist Muslim and Soros?
Either that, or just turn the whole thing into a sea of glass and move on.
Well then I guess I can get two ponies for my birthday ;)
I’m sure they were afraid that if they gave them enough time they might just destroy that whole facility.
With these numbers I’m pretty sure the gov’t WANTED the bad guys to understand not only that they wouldn’t negotiate, but that they would assault EXACTLY as if there were NO hostages at all.
They wrote off the hostages completely, in the hopes of showing that it does NO good to take hostages in the first place.
Who understands Arab terrorists better than Arabs...?
Arabs understand violence and death, and the gov’t baddies handed it right over to them —there is crystal clear comprehension, here.
Exotic electronics? Ballet-like room clearing?
I’m positive none of that was even considered.
Good job Obummer.
He owns this.
Someone must have screened that movie again.
With America going down the sh*tter, it’s hard to get excited about Algeria, Outer Mongolia etc.
“We” are not there just for the heck of it. Norway gets natural gas there, Spain gets half of its natural gas from Algeria, and in fact the normal people in Algeria rely on this industry. All of these things are tied into the global economy, which even affects us over here.
So essentially a band of crazed 7th century goons with 21st century arms is ruining things way beyond their local scope of destruction. They can’t be allowed to take over.
Well then, Norway and Spain need to attack Algeria in their national interests.
What IS the Obama connection ?
There has to be one......
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