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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Algerian Hostage Crisis ends with 19 hostages killed...

Al Qaeda terrorists took this BP natural gas plant in Algeria in protest to fighting in Mali

19 hostages dead in Algeria.  It does not appear any hostages survived.
Algeria's response to the crisis was typical of the country's history in confronting terrorists - military action over negotiation - and caused an international outcry from countries worried about their citizens. Algerian military forces twice assaulted the areas where the hostages were being held with minimal apparent negotiation - first on Thursday and then on Saturday.
The latest deaths bring the official Algerian tally of dead to 19 hostages and 29 militants, although reports on the number of dead, injured and freed have been contradictory throughout the crisis. Militants originally said they had seized 41 foreign hostages.
Update:
The Belmont Club:  The Algerians follow the Russian model, no compromise, if hostages die it is regrettable but that is the way it goes.  So long as the terrorists are killed.
American Thinker
TOM: Hostages dead in Algeria, French fight on in Mali
Liberated Mali town tells of horrors of Al Qaeda

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