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Reports say many hostages killed in Algeria siege
A Mauritanian news agency that has been in constant contact with kidnappers holding dozens of Western hostages in Algeria reported on Thursday that 34 of the captives had been killed in air strikes.
It was not immediately possible to confirm the report by the ANI news agency, which said 14 kidnappers had also been killed in air strikes by the Algerian armed forces, which had surrounded the remote desert gas pumping station where the kidnappers were holed up.
Qatar-based Al Jazeera television carried a similar report, citing its own sources.
ANI quoted a spokesman for the kidnappers as saying they would kill the rest of their captives if the army approached.
Governments around the world were holding emergency meetings to respond to one of the biggest international hostage crises in decades, which sharply raised the stakes in a week-old French campaign against al Qaeda-linked rebels in the Sahara.
An Algerian security source earlier said 25 foreign hostages had escaped the besieged compound, including two Japanese.
The source told Reuters the captors had demanded safe passage out with their prisoners. Algeria has refused to negotiate with what it says is a band of about 20 fighters.
A group calling itself the “Battalion of Blood” says it seized 41 foreigners, including Americans, Japanese and Europeans, after storming the pumping station and employee barracks before dawn on Wednesday.
The attackers have demanded an end to the French military campaign in Mali, where hundreds of French paratroopers and marines are launching a ground offensive against rebels a week after Paris began firing on militants from the air.
4 Comments on "Reports say many hostages killed in Algeria siege"
Arthur on Thu, 17th Jan 2013 2:55 pm
During the 17th century North-Africa was a no-go area for Europeans, if you did not want to be enslaved and sold by the kilo. In fact muslims carried out raids even as north as southern England. It looks like the good old times are returning. Not good for the New World Order project. Excellent!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates
Fishman on Thu, 17th Jan 2013 6:09 pm
But, but, the president just told us Alquida was on the run. Guess reality for some comes too late
DC on Fri, 18th Jan 2013 2:12 am
What Reuters here neglected to mention, is just *who* the plant actually belonged to.
Why look..its BP!
From AP (Amerikan Propaganda)
BP, the Norwegian company Statoil and the Algerian state oil company Sonatrach, operate the gas field and a Japanese company, JGC Corp, provides services for the facility.
The Al-Q boogeyman machine is running in overdrive here. Expect a new wave of attacks by the US in the ME, and possibly a new round of repression at home. Ive allredy seen numerous gov;t officals implying we need ‘new’ measures to combat all this ‘terriorism’. All in the name of protecting us from the commie menace, err, terrorist menace of course.
Actually, this attack is definatly cough not Al-Q, you know how to tell. The fake media created AL-Q only attacks airliners, or …plots to. This is despite airliners being worthless targets even in the remote chance of actually succeeding in attacking one. A ‘real terrorist’, hits them where it hurts, and matters, like this event here. The fake AL-Q has spent the last 2 decades plotting to blow up planes, to no success of course. Anyone serious about fighting back against the US\UK terror state, would never waste limited resources trying to blow up a bunch of fat amerikans on there way to disneyland in a 737….
BillT on Fri, 18th Jan 2013 7:38 am
All vulnerable oil and gas sources will be the new targets of ‘ter–rists’. It hurts the West far more than a few thousand deaths … collateral damage.