https://freerepublic.com/tag/hostages23/ en-us Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:52:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2979927/posts Official reports from the Algerian interior ministry put the number of deaths following an attack on a gas plant in the Algerian desert at 23 hostages and 32 terrorists. The government also said 107 foreign hostages and 685 Algerian hostages had been released. The deaths came as a result of a four day hostage crisis which ended Saturday in a final assault by Algerian special forces on a group of Islamic terrorists who were holed up, along with the hostages, in a gas facility in the country. ..... Arutz Sheva https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2979927/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jan 2013 23:52:28 GMT