Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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* Fox News had the following report posted up on their
website this past Friday evening and it starts off like this… Earlier Friday, the State Department confirmed
there are still American hostages being held by an Al Qaeda-linked group at the
gas plant, deep in the Saharan desert. When asked about a report that
the group wants to trade hostages for terror figures jailed in the United
States, spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said: “The United States does not negotiate
with terrorists.”…
Read this report in full at link below…
* The New
York Times reports… With more than 60 hostages still missing and many feared
dead, Prime Minister David Cameron told
Parliament on Friday that the Qaeda-linked attack on a remote Algerian gas
installation demonstrated the need for Britain and its western
allies, including the United States, to direct more of their diplomatic,
military and intelligence resources to the intensifying threat emanating from
“the ungoverned space” of the North African desert, treating it with as much concern
as the terrorist challenge in Pakistan and Afghanistan…
Read the
full report at link below…
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* BBC had the following report posted up
on their website Sunday evening and it starts off like this… At least 48 hostages are now thought to have
died in a four-day siege at an Algerian gas plant, as reports say that 25 bodies
found at the complex on Sunday were all those of captives…
It had initially been unclear whether the bodies found were those of
hostage-takers or staff at the facility… A day earlier, Algerian officials
reported the deaths of 23 hostages, saying many more were unaccounted for… Five
suspected Islamist attackers were reportedly arrested on Sunday… The Algerian
authorities had said on Saturday that all 32 hostage-takers had been killed…
The siege was ended in a raid by troops on Saturday. Officials say a definitive
death toll will be released later…
Read this
report in full at link below…
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* CBSNews.com
has the following News
report/Video…
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* CNN.com has this good read, (with lots of links to other great reads,) posted on their website this Tuesday
afternoon and it starts off like this…
All eyes are on Algeria following the hostage
crisis at a BP gas facility that left at least 37 hostages -- and dozens of
militants -- dead. And while we're uncovering details of what
happened at the remote desert complex at In Amenas and why, we must also
scrutinize what this crisis tells us about security in North Africa, or the
Maghreb…
Read the
rest at link below…
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Yeah, Obama… you really got them Terrorist on the
run,
shaking to death in their flip-flops...
AubreyJ………
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