Posted on 11/20/2015 1:00:37 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Muslim terrorists opened fire on an upscale hotel on Friday in the city of Bamako, the capital of the western African state of Mali.
The jihadists used automatic weapons according to security sources, and apparently have taken people hostage in the Radisson Blu Hotel. Some reports indicate that at least three people have died in the attack.
The luxury hotel, which has 190 rooms, is a popular site for Western officials according to French-language media.
According to the French RFI radio, the attack was launched by three assailants who entered the hotel with diplomatic cars.
Security forces have set up a cordon around the building, and a security source told AFP that "it's all happening on the seventh floor, jihadists are firing in the corridor."
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BBC: How did gunmen enter the hotel?
Posted at 10:46
There are several accounts of what happened in Bamako this morning:
A witness in Mali’s capital city, Bamako, suggests the attackers had diplomatic plates on their car.
“They have come this way while I was sweeping in the yard,” said the hotel gardener.
“They were in car with a diplomatic license plate. They were masked. At the gate of the hotel, the guard stopped them and they started firing and we fled.”
But another witness report, suggests that a vehicle forced its way through the security barrier at the hotel:
“I don’t know how many [attackers there were]. They were between five and 13. They injured three security guards who were at the gate of the hotel.
“These security guards are from a security firm, they are not soldiers.”
Per AP, Malian army commander says that 20 hostages have been freed. Reported that French special forces involved in operation.
REUTERS:
Gunmen moving floor by floor, have arrived on the seventh floor of Radisson hotel - Senior security source
A form of the Arabic phrase Allahu Akbar “God is greater than everything”. That’s their real meaning and purpose. Giving them authority to kill in the name of their god. Their god is not the same as my God. My God does not promote killing. If you ask me, their god is the devil.
The koran’s allah is satan. Period.
BBC:
Qatari Al Jazeera TV has identified the group holding a number of people hostage in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali as the “Ansar al-Din (supporters of religion)” group.
The channel’s correspondent in Mali described Ansar al-Din as an “extremist military group that seeks to implement Islamic Sharia in Mali”.
I thought the new instructions in these firefights was to try to run away, not lay still and play dead.
We need to let 100,000 Mali Muslims into the US, and give them free housing, free food, free health care, free phones, free voter cards, and free money.
That will convince them to abandon their terrorist ways.
Obama akbar! He has a solution for every problem!
Unconfirmed reports that 50 of the 170 hostages have been freed.
And that’s the hard truth no one wants to accept.
The Mali population is 55% unaffiliated Muslim according to wiki. Only been to one Muslim majority country in my life. Jordan in 1996. Likely my first and last visit to a Muslim majority nation.
RT reporting that body count has increased to nine.
BBC:
Michael Skapoullis, who witnessed the attack in Bamako, has been speaking on the Victoria Debyshire programme on BBC News.
He described how he escaped from the Radisson Blu hotel with help of the police:
Report
The BBC French Service’s Mamadou Moussa also told the programme that a radical Islamist militant leader in Mali had called on his followers to target French interests in the country:
REUTERS”
Three Turkish Airlines staff members escape from hotel under attack in Mali capital - Turkish official
Clearly “luxury hotel” is a very low bar in that part of the world.
Good luck to the security forces and hostages.
No one could have expected to have weak kneed president like Jimmy Carter, until the guy we have now.
This guy is going to spin for the next 18 months. Trump will be the only salvation for us. Hopefully, on a Trump/Cruz ticket.
This is truly turning out to be a third world war.
“Dead bodies strewn in hotel, it’s horrible” ~ unattributed quote to a freed hostage.
Sorry to say, but get the flowers and candles ready. At least that little boy in the video from last week will feel safer.
Was the tip-off the dirt road?
I can imagine the terrorists leaving alone the passed-out drunk expats who will sleep thru the whole thing. “Yeah, man I was there”.
Yep
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