National Mourning After Burkina Faso (Africa) 'Bloodbath'

SkyNews ^ | 1/16/16

[Altura Ct.]

The 29 victims, from 18 countries, were killed in "cowardly and vile" assaults at a hotel and restaurant popular with Westerners.

Burkina Faso has declared three days of national mourning after al Qaeda militants struck at a top hotel and restaurant killing 29 people, including 10 foreigners.

Security forces freed some 150 hostages and killed four assailants around 12 hours after the extremists launched the assaults on the Splendid Hotel and the Cappuccino Cafe across the road in the capital Ouagadougou.

Burkina Faso President Roch Marc Christian Kabore, who took office last month, said in a TV and radio address that the nation was "in shock".

"For the first time in its history, our country has fallen victim to a series of barbaric terrorist attacks," he said, adding that the people of Burkina would nevertheless "emerge victorious".

Those killed at the four-star hotel and restaurant, both popular with Westerners and UN staff, came from 18 different countries.

They include six Canadians, two French and two Swiss nationals as well as an American.

The US citizen was named as Michael James Riddering who moved with his wife to Burkina Faso to run an orphanage.

Burkina Interior Minister Simon Compaore said the bodies of three "very young" jihadists had been identified, all of them men.

A security source said earlier that three attackers - two of them understood to be women - also died at the Splendid Hotel, while a fourth was killed when security forces cleared out a second hotel nearby.

Al Qaeda of Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has claimed responsibility, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.

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[dfwgator]

I have never visited a Muslim country (or one where more than 10% of the population is Muslim), and never will.

You are very wise.

[kearnyirish2]

Thanks; I just don’t live in denial.

[arthurus]

For them attacking unarmed people is not cowardice because they know they will die. It is effect enhancement. Their goal is to make as many infidel dead bodies as possible. Cowardice is just a derogatory and for yall all derogatory words have the same meaning ie. BAD.Use the most evocative one. That is why all non libs are necessarily RACIST. That is the baddest word liberals can think of.

[Koracan]

Better change your travel plans, go to Mexico.


Formerly called the Republic of Upper Volta, the country was renamed "Burkina Faso" on 4 August 1984
BURKINA FASO - Exercise a high degree of caution

There is no nationwide advisory in effect for Burkina Faso.
However, you should exercise a high degree of caution due to the evolving political situation and potential for future unrest.

Regional Advisory for the northern area and the border with Mali
Global Affairs Canada advises against all travel north of the Tougan-Ouhigouya-Djibo-Dori line (up to the Niger border), and within 80 km of the rest of the border with Mali due to the threat of banditry and kidnapping.

...attack at a luxury hotel...
luxury hotel bath room in Burkina faso

[Fred Nerks]

HA! I see little reason to go to the nearest city...I am so islam phobic the sight of a hijab makes me want to throw up.
Mind you, I feel the same way about tarantulas should I find one inside the house. Does that make me tarantula phobic?
How unPC is that...

[Candor7]

One is a large target, worthy of lead while the other is a smaller arachnoid target worthy of a good , heavy Oz flyswatter.

One should be able to have both target remedies inside ones international luggage. However I do have a tendency to get mixed up and so perhaps would be the worlds firts assassin of an Islamofascist using an Oz taratulaic swatter.But he would go down damn hard.