Breaking - hostage situation - 7 Americans, many other other Westerners taken HOSTAGE in Algerian gas complex, Algerian assault has began

The Algerian Army will take care of business , them crazy ass soldiers have dealt with this kind of scum mofos before

And that's why Mali is important, could very easily become the Afghanistan of N.Africa and bring instability in the Med too. French got in without a certain plan, could turn to an endless ugly attrition warfare very easily, seems that French haven't thought this through.

This is a huge hostage/ ransom situation for money, as compared to some ideological terrorist action.

The kidnappers are motivated by profit and want to come out alive, rather than wanting to blow themselves up.

The Algerian nationals in captivity are not very valuable, unless the terrorists undertake to kill off a few of them to illustrate their willingness to kill the more 'valuable' Western hostages.

Terrorists which are motivated by profit are much easier to negotiate with than those motivated by ideology.

Even though Algeria is refusing to negotiate, we can be fairly certain that both Western governments and the oil company are in financial negotiations with the kidnappers -- even if for no other reason than to keep their hostages alive longer.

BP says it believes the oil field being held by militants in a hostage situation is currently closed - @Reuters

?!

Leon Panetta, the US defence secretary, has called the incident a "terrorist attack", while Victoria Nuland, the US state department's spokesman added:
Beyond confirming that there are Americans among the hostages, I will ask you to respect our decision not to get into any further details as we try to secure these people

this is what it's all about:

The hostage takers in Algeria are demanding the release of 100 Islamist prisoners, who should be taken they say to the northern Mali border, according to a worker present at the gas plant.
"The hostage takers want 100 terrorists held in Algeria to be released in exchange for their hostages' release," he told AFP by phone. "The assailants have demanded these Islamists be driven to the North of Mali."
A spokesman for the Islamists told Mauritanian news agencies the attack was "in response to the flagrant interference of Algeria by authorising the use of its airspace by French planes to conduct raids against northern Mali".
It said the Algerian government's decision was "a betrayal of the blood of Algerian martyrs who fell under the bullet of the French colonialist".

UN personnel in Switzerland have told me "Obama is closely monitoring the situation"

Interesting. The islamists also hold 3 Algerian diplomats since April.

[link to www.magharebia.com]

Indeed

wait until we hand over Syria to these same terrorists...

guns dont kill people. gas fields do

TESTIMONY EXCLUSIVE - Reached by phone, one of the people trapped on a site BP Amenas in Algeria Figaro described in the circumstances of the hostage.

"The terrorists said they had undermined the base." Reached by telephone, of the approximately 400 detainees at a site of gas Amenas, south-east of Algiers on the border with Libya, attacked in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday by an armed group, said that the attackers were also fitted with rocket launchers.

"They hold forty foreign hostages but we do not find all in one place," she says. Mauritanian Sahara Media sites and Nouakchott Information Agency also report 41 Western hostages, including 7 Americans, French, British and Japanese. After a tense morning, where several shots were fired, the kidnappers are now "calmer".

"Those who face hidden"
"They asked for water and food to sixty persons and instructed vehicles belonging to British Petroleum." A fighter reached by phone by AFP said that the attackers were members of al-Qaeda , from Mali. "We belong to the brigade Khaled Aboul Abbas, Mokhtar Belmokhtar," he said, recalling that Belmokhtar had "threatened to respond to any military intervention in Mali." According to the witness imprisoned hostages, the terrorists would have hoisted a flag on which is written "al katibat moulataamoun" (those who face hidden).

[link to www.lefigaro.fr]

Google translation

It will also be a way to remove American service personnel away from American shores for when the Great Gun Grab happens.

sooooooo....
400 hostages and noone is armed?
in a hostile islamic country?
are there 400 terrorists there?
surely 400 hostages can fight off 6 terrorists, guns or no guns.
seriously. B FUCKEN P HAD NO ARMED SECURITY THERE?
its going to take 5 countries and their armies to "free"
these "hostages"?
this is such BS!!!!
BP WITH THEIR BAZILLIONS OF DOLLARS CANT PROTECT THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES?
this is complete bullshit.
fuck BP.

48 hostage

How do you this coming to an end?, thanx for your imput-

Algerians all freed?

Nope, all the employees are still in the plant, the westerners are chained, the Algerians are free inside the plant, but they can't leave though

SIXTY terrorists, not six

Easy peazy -

The US will send them an email outlining 23 or so different demands and conditions, most of which ambiguous until needed for their own favor, to condemn, classify, and disqualify them from being "terrorists", or any ability to take, purchase, or have in their possession any hostage - especially those appearing as military, "official" or may be scary.

Done deal - see how easy?

I all seriousness; prayers for all those involved.

if they can't leave, they're hostages too

Send in DEVGRU!

Onward to North Africa we go.....

who's to say they are "terrorists"?

I mean, how do you define a terrorist....?

Cause in this case it seems like there is a French backed government whom some people want to overthrow??

If the situation was reversed, as in Libya ie, those who want to overthrow the government wouldn't be called terrorist, but "freedom army".... whole the government would be called a "tyranny"

So everyone calling these people "terrorists" are bunch of sheep and hypocrites!!!

there you go, no problem too big for our fearless leader!!

Next target of mass murder inc. MALI


No wonder the servicemen are killing themselves.

This could be obamas second chance to free hostages, since Benghazi was a mess