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34 Hostages, 14 Kidnappers Killed In Algerian Standoff
The Algeria hostage situation reported yesterday, where alleged Al Qaeda operatives took numerous hostages at a local BP, Statoil and Sonatrach JV gas plant in retaliation for the French incursion into Mali, has rapidly gone from bad to worse as some 34 hostages (out of the 41 originally reported) have been killed.
From Reuters:
Thirty-four hostages and 14 of their al Qaeda-linked kidnappers were killed on Thursday in an air strike by the Algerian armed forces, Mauritania's ANI news agency reported, citing one of the kidnappers holding captives at a desert gas field.
It was not immediately possible to independently verify the information from the agency, which has close contact with the group which has claimed responsibility for the mass kidnapping.
ANI reported that the spokesman for the kidnappers said they would kill the rest of their captives if the army approached.
And since of the original 41 hostages taken, 7 were US, the question is how many Americans were just killed. Expect a prompt response by the State Department as well as rapid escalation in West African hostilities.
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ha, and you say the us is not a manufacturing giant?
how about the wars we manufacture?
you go Hil,
G
Clearly they need to ban magazines that hold over 7 rounds in Algeria.
....and their doctors should screen them for any terroristic tendencys.
bit of ritalin here and some zoloft there, good idea
G
No they were told this was coming.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-14/french-led-strikes-on-mali-islamists-threaten-revenge-attacks.html
That nuke plant they raided is still running without staff. The Oil wells are just them slapping assets around. This is just the foreplay. They still control the nuke plant.
Gonna need me another 55 gal barrel of gas.
Blowback bitches.
Mali: The result of Germany repatriating its gold!
Laugh now, but some unimaginative pencil neck will probably draw the line somehow to gold, the common cold, the weather and any other mountain made out of a molehill.
Fuckin airstikes, on hostages????
WTF...
Anything goes in love and war, just don't bomb the chemical weapons stored in the facility. As we said, they are not to be used against humans in any country.
I predict zero engineers enlisting to replace them.
Those oil fields are as good as closed.
yup - i think the commentors above missed that part
What do you want? Kill them one by one manually? That is barbaric when you have technologies including planes, helicopters, missiles, drones... Progress!!
Tyler, you jumped too quickly in the story, again...
Only 6 hostages and 8 terrorists are confirmed dead as of now.
Story is from Reuters and yours is from? What a piton.
His numbers are clearly seasonally adjusted.
Hedonic hostages and kidnappers.
Have you ever heard of google news? Apparently Reuters contradicts itself...
here is for you, from Canadian CBC:
lgeria raided a remote Sahara gas plant on Thursday in an attempt to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants with ties to Mali's rebel Islamists, U.K. and Japanese diplomats said. The militants claimed strafing by Algerian helicopters killed 35 hostages and 15 kidnappers.
(...)
Reuters, citing an unnamed source, reported that six foreign hostages and eight militants had been killed in the Algerian military operations.
(...)
The number of remaining hostages is unclear. A militant spokesperson told the AP that seven hostages remain alive, from the U.S., U.K. Belgium and Japan. The militants originally said they had seized 41 foreigners, including Americans, Britons, French, Japanese, Romanians, Malaysians, Irish and Norwegians, among others.
(...)
An Algerian security official had said, however, that around 20 foreign hostages had escaped earlier Thursday.
It was not possible to reconcile the conflicting reports from the complex, which is jointly operated by BP, Norway's Statoil and the Algerian Sonatrach company."
Piton you said?
Benny can print the difference
Africa, the next killing fields.
LOL whatever.
My suspicion is the French no longer have the money to bribe the warchiefs in the area so the local REAL land lords are kicking the tenants out. Economic collapse has a unintended side effect. At one point the people you've been bribing to maintain the empire understand the money given is worthless.
There is a lot more of this coming if countries wish to continue business in worthless paper. When a warlord says gold, they mean gold, not paper gold.
Warlord 101: "Always stick to the basics. Gold, Guns, Pussy, and Jack Daniels."
Give a warlord a witchbuck & he will not hunger for a day...
Teach the warlord the cult of the witchbuck & he'll start shooting at you...
~~~
I'm trying 'witch' on for size here...
Yep: The new Southeast Asia; three way proxy wars China v. old European Colonial powers that think that it still belongs to them, vs. U.S. who wants all those natural resources too; with plenty of cannon fodder to go around...
Poor bastards aren't going to know what hit 'em...
The U.S. is included in the "old European Colonial Powers" and is ultimately subservient to UK interests. You're also forgetting Russia, who is "frenemies" with China. This is really just the UK vs. China/Russia. Continuation of the Great Game.
There's always a silver lining:
Kidnap insurers eye sales as euro crisis bites"LONDON (Reuters) - Insurers see opportunity to sell protection against kidnap risk...."
http://news.yahoo.com/kidnap-insurers-eye-sales-euro-crisis-bites-124215...
"Money never sleeps."
CPL, do you have any information on the nuke plant you refer to? I can only see reference to a gas plant in the ZH reports and your link. ty
http://www.environmental-expert.com/energy-renewables/energy-management/...
You can buy it online with a simple google search. The uranium mines and processing in Mali are well known and the spine of the French energy industry. The oil wells are just foreplay.
Thank you for your reply. I can only find 2 nuclear plants in Algeria, and zero in Mali, Chad or Niger, so I assume the plant you are referring to that they took over is in Algeria. I will keep searching because I am intrigued.
Check with ricefarmer.blogspot.ca
He's always got a third eye for digging up articles that get buried. Otherwise google translate in to Russian, Chinese, Hindi and Spanish should give you a better idea of what's going on. The english news meme space is broken.
Japanese meme space...lol. whatever.
I may be confused, but I think he's talking about the extensive uranium mining processing plants in Mali, a disruption of which would be a rather significant blow to the French (and others) power strucutre.
Kinda like the NYC shooting where the cops fired over 20 rounds, "at" the perp who died of a self inflicted single wound?
Collateral damage has gone the way of the dodo bird too i see.
negro is not going to be happy about this, ...that is his turf and if there are going to be any cowardly killings from the sky, he will say who, what and were....
Obummer just signed executive order 24, banning killing terrorists. Sighting they had a troubled childhood and should receive counseling instead.
Another merit badge for Obama.
He's a funny guy: he wants to arm the rest of the world but disarm his own citizens.
So how does our crumbing empire finally end? Do we go the way of the Soviet Union with a slow collapse and a fairly amicable parting of ways in a couple of decades? Or do we go out in some ill-conceived blaze of glory moment? Or are our "leaders" even intelligent enough to recognize the end at all?
It ends like Thelma and Louise.
Whimpering in the dark covered in shit waiting for the big phony check from publishers sweepstakes while watching TV. True story, watched five minutes of something called hoarders a couple of weeks ago.
That's how society ends. Baffled by it's own bullshit and no clue what's for supper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmYCM4CS8o
We're doin' this shit in leather pants.
"Expect a prompt response by the State Department as well as rapid escalation in West African hostilities."
I am no longer certain that the U.S. has a State Dept. The silence from there, DOD, and the White House have been deafening.
I hope this means we can stop pretending on "engagement" and start exterminating al quaeda an all affiliates like the cockroaches they are...
Are you the last person on the planet to figure out that "Al Qaeda" is a CIA black op?
Who's running that operation - Putin?
Putin if it fails in the end
Obama if there's a sudden victory
Not what I meant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis
That one was awful. They used an aerosolized Fentanyl derivative and they OD'd the whole place.
My old boss used to work for the DEA and was telling me about it.
I guess there are worse ways to go?
pods
Nonetheless that incident has had the effect of discouraging hostage taking in Russia ever since.
In 2005 wasnt there another hostage crisis where terrorists took hundreds of kindergartners hostage. Maybe they were withdrawing.
Putain actually. Or perhaps Puta.
His name is Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo. Oh no, that's the dude who played hoops for Georgetown and the Houston Rockets. He went back an calmed things down in the Congo by waiving his finger at anyone misbehaving. That, of course, is why Kinshasa has been so peaceful since he retired from the NBA. Maybe we can hire him to take his talents to Mali?
so... who goes to Algeria anyway?!
The boogerman "Al Qaeda" obviously.
Al Qaeda and Global Warming are the perfect enemies. Invisible to the eye, and the politically correct brigade will happily attack anyone questioning either.
Oh, you mean Al-CIAda don't you?
http://beforeitsnews.com/economics-and-politics/2011/02/cia-spy-captured...
I don't really buy into the Al CIAda thing, but I do think an invisible enemy is incredibly convenient. A credible reason - not substitute - for war. And one which for reasons which should be obvious can never be conclusively disproven.
Al CIAeda was created to fight the Soviets I believe Al CIAeda is fingering the elements of Al Qaeda that are not udner the thumb of the CIA. Al CIAaeda provides the intel for Barry's Tuesday kill list.
The element's controlled by the CIA are ferryed around NA and the Levant to destabilize the region.
"And one which for reasons which should be obvious can never be conclusively disproven."
Did you read the article from the link above?...
What country is Algeria in?
I think it's down there, south of Mumbambu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_iqrvnC_4
Africa...and apparently they're at war with Europe. Why can't these countries just get along?
"Why can't these countries just get along?"
I think the reasons have been well established... Someone does not want countries to get along...
Namely, those who find it more critical to stop using red ink when correcting homework than actually teaching geography
More people than go to Mali. Ever hear the phrase "gone to Timbuktu"? That's in Mali.
Another successful fucking US backed crisis response.
Fuck you Barry.
While the deaths were indeed unfortunate, the real question is did France secure the oil and other natural resources like they intended?
/sarc
Germany to US & France: Got my Gold yet? Where my Gold? I aint wait'n 7 years, bitches!
"Germany to US & France: Got my Gold yet? Where my Gold? I aint wait'n 7 years, bitches!"
You will if we tell you too!... And you will like it mister!... Now go back to watching Dancing with the Stars...
Hope they've got a spare 15 nuclear engineers to keep that plant from going nuclear.
Oh well, when it goes it should blow radioactive waste up all over MENA and give everything a nice glow and fuck with radar and humans for the next how ever many years (est 4800- 5200 years). Or maybe that's the intention.
Man, what a day!
CPL, Cog Dis, Sudden Debt, Anal Sphincter, PODS,... all on the same thread along with a bunch of other old timers I recognize.
This is gonna be spectactular (literally).
All right!!!! Let's go fuck up ANOTHER country. Them al-CIAda boys do some great work.
More needless death. It would be nice if "We The People" caused some needed death, then this nightmare could finally end.
WAR:what's it good for?
My guess is the french commando's were in charge of this operation as well.
They must have mistaken the white flag for... a french attack??? Well maybe they don't know about white flags in the back dunes of Algeria.
"WAR:what's it good for?"
Liberating oil and gold?
Well, it used to be a french colony.
Not quite, the French Commando team actually cut and run during the first firefight.
That is why the Algerians had to come in and toast the place with kinetics.
is there any way Bush can be blamed?
yes, one could make a serious case that almost every politician can be blamed for this violent bankrupt mess the world finds itself in.
Hey, killing 2.4 hostages per jihadi snuffed is winning, eh?
At least the Obama Regime has the Algerians to blame...
What a fustercluck of an operation!
Those kill rates are high even if they were trying to kill the hostages and spare Al CIA DUH.
pods
It's actually a good tactic to free hostages.... YOU BOMB THE PLACE!!!!
now the real point is...
I'M FUCKING AMAZED THE AMERICANS DIDN'T COME UP WITH THIS PLAN!!!
the solution for everything....
Hurricane? BOMB IT!!
Elections? BOMB IT!!
Free speech? BOMB IT!!
Balanced budgets? BOMB IT!!
Our policy has not changed. When terrorists attack.....we stand down.
actualy you're wrong...
When terrorists attack, you president gets on his knees and excuses himself for not sucking their dicks fast enough.
If you add Capitol Hill and the White House to that list, I think you'll be on to something.
How do you know we didn't?
If you did, Obama would be on TV blaming Bush for it.
BOOM!
GOLD JUST GOT BOMMED TO!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that's bad...
19th... options... who would have guessed that...
Chemical weapons! Don't bomb it!!
Confused, now we don't know where to direct our patriotic outrage.
The terrorist who kidnapped them, or the Algerians who killed them.
To the MSM we shall look for clarification.
travel to n africa at your own risk my friend, the rest of the world is aware of what we are doing and the day china decides to give up on the dollar, the game is over and we will be asking greece for aid...
as for the hostages, as Dylan said, they are only a pawn in the game
G
Have been following this for months as a former resident of W Africa many years ago...
The "terrorists" are "al qaeda" who were hired by the CIA (metaphor for US Imperial Department) to kill Lybia and make sure that China does not get its hands on N. African oil and gas.
The "heavy arms" are US made and were taken back to Mali from Lybia by the Mali soldiers hired by Momo Gadafai as well as the "opposition" to him.
One hilarious aside, if there can be one, is that the Tuaregs fighting with AQ, MNLA left the coalition fighting the Mali government when they banned music.
The Tuareg are some of the most musical people in the world and are a major influence on American blues as well as r and r groups like Led Zeppelin...they have been fighting the Mali government since 1963...the leader of the group in this video's father was killed and the song is called "63" as in 63 will come again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TBJh8_CVYQ
G
Stay liquid my friends
Thank
The empire is back into expansion mode. Once we liberate them from their gold and other valuables we can establish a central bank and westernize these savages.
Algeria has one already, and Mali is covered by the Central Bank of Western African States.
I wonder how long it will take them to get their gold back from the Fed.
how about NEVER...does never work
An airstrike by Algerian armed forces? Talk about international incident, government is responsible for more deaths than the terrorists. what a shocker sarc/
I feel like calling bullshit on the fact that Algerians can respond with an airstrike so quickly. If the US couldn't do this in Benghazi, there is no way the Algerians could do it so quickly in this incident.
Wait, unless, someone in our government is lying to us, and the MSM is complicit and aiding and abetting the Obama White House? No, it couldn't be that. That's why they first reported that the most of the hostages had escaped. That story probably would have gotten the rest of the news media off the case, except for the strafing of the entire site and killing of 40+ people. That kinda put a crimp in the story.
I guess we'll just have to wait for the videotape like we saw after Newtown to prove that there weren't multiple shooters and that one guy did the whole thing and then killed himself with two pistols, I mean a high-powered AR-15 with a huge cartridge, I mean with 4 guns. Well thank God the school's expensive security system can settle things. Oh, wait, that's right, we were told it would never be released to anyone, and all the news contradicted 50X over should be ignored. There is now only one permitted version of the story, so you better believe it.
When the US Government announces the official version of what happened here, I will believe it. Unless, I start to think I'm being screwed with across the board. No, everything is just peachy.
Fuck it, I'll just wait for Al Jazeera to get the real version and the new Taliban office to issue press reports.
It' all so confusing.
Smells fishy...something like "oily fishy".
They announced on CBS this Morning that 40 hostages "escaped".
...their spirits but not their bodies.
depends on your definition of 'escaped'
FUBAR
SNAFU
Your gold are belong to us, I beleive is the new "charge!" rendition. We've come to save your gold er um your lives!!!
Bullish news - market up.
Gold....Down.
If only those hostages had had assault rifles with large caps.
We are all hostages, now. Or, was that supposed to be Keynesians, I can't remember.
Palestinians ...
That's crazy. You can always depend on the proper authorities to show up and save your bacon.
Commence Operation Algerian Freedom! Something obviously needs to be "liberated";
http://en.lemag.ma/Algeria-The-debt-is-over--4-billion-and-gold-reserves-are-10-billion_a912.html
notice in the article, written before this "convenient" tragedy, that mali has OIL RESERVES and is STRATEGICALLY LOCATED..............
http://newsone.com/2087857/africom-military-us-africa/
Don't forget their Au. Randgold, AngloGold, Iamgold, etc., all have substantial reserves there.
Funny that Mali is considered one of the safer jurisdictions in Africa.
Mali? Safe jurisdiction?
Yes, compared to DRCongo, Guinea, Zimbabwe, Sudan, etc., it is considered "friendly" (malleable, Mali-able?).
Either them choppers bombed the hell out of both jihadists and hostages or the jihadists executed them before the air strike or both. In any case it looks like a bloodbath.
As Wall St rejoices! Sick world!
This is great!!!! A brand new war, and one where we are just "helping" france....so you don't get into all that messy stuff like congressional approval....and you can bury the expenses everywhere.......way to go!!!! keep that military funding flowing!!!! I mean, if we can't arrange to spend the next 15 years "liberating iran", this could be a great new strategy.....
Vietnam 2.2 maybe?
These Al Qaeda people are scary...it seems they are everywhere. Just the other day I saw one peeking in my window. Thank goodness I had my "gun free zone " sign up or he might have gotten me.
An attempt to get the Journal News hypocrites to put a Gun Free sign on their lawns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1Zy_ASNyA&feature=player_embedded
Good video thanks.
Too funny, in an absurdist sort of way. Thanks for the link.
Thanks!
MASSACRE IN THE DESERT - Algeria Hostage Update: 35 Killed, 15 Escape! Pentagon Prepares Mali Intervention - China to be Sucked into Mineral Grab. 1,400 French Troops Now On Ground In Mali
http://investmentwatchblog.com/massacre-in-the-desert-algeria-hostage-up...
Its way to early to analize the "facts" that are coming out....there are no facts out yet...way to early
nor will we ever know the facts.
any survivors will get in line along with the police, firefighters, emt's, teachers, all military members, fema employees, and all family members thereof, as heroes.
when seconds count, algerian missles are only minutes away...
Precision missile strikes are just the thing for hostage situations!
"A NEW WORLD ORDER!" that is one where Mr "white skin" is a prime target all over the globe!
Bush Sr was right after all! It's a new world order...
Where's Barry? The world needs Barry to hug and bow this better.
And who was that poster yesterday who got junked for warning about Mali escalating into Algeria?
Junker, for where are't thou?
GM raped the taxpayers and AQ is alive. Thanks Barry.
Certainly we got a shit load of drones deployed watching all this happen?
Well, no, the drones are patrolling over YOUR house.
This goverment does not care about Americans killed abroad, just look at the fucking Charde in Bengahzi and the lies and cover up.
Let's not forget that this is blowback from the NATO (US) invasion of Libya.... The fighters in Mali are those same people the US armed in Libya....
Sort of like exactly how Reagan created Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
Have the fighters in Mali taken over your bold key?
News on the way in had all the hostages escaping???
News had me crying when I hear T'eo's GF died too.
i still don't get it...Mali is a shit hole, why does anyone (but Malians actually care?
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ml.html
per capita GDP for 16 million people is US$1,100 A YEAR, 80% of peope are in fishing and farming with another 10% nomads and a literacy rate of less than 33% and life expectancy of 55.
do they have the cure for AIDS or something?
maybe its a place for war games? why on earth create a problem and kill people for no reason in a place no-one has heard of or wants to go to?
This is how the Hatfields and McCoys communicate this century.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ My guess is uranium. Maybe oil, minerals, and other resources. Cheap labor to get the stuff.
This stuff ...
http://library.thinkquest.org/06aug/00298/images/gold.jpg
still a shit hole :>)
Looks like Algeria does not negotiate with terrorists.
Relax people we have this escalating situation under situation awareness control.
Signed:-
The "O", consumer in chief, over and owt.
The French troops are even now setting up an impregnable air base in a valley surrounded by hills.
TH--who would have given you a negative for your clever remark? I liked it.
"Shoot the hostage."
From the Movie: Speed
The influence of Hollywood knows no bounds!
so the french are virtually on-site....reuters is publishing conflicting reports....the news group from mauritas is the only to indicate 34 killed....US msm hasnt even mentioned anything. dont we have satellites that can read your newspaper? i guess we need to wait for a 'victory' on our side before we report anything