BREAKING: Algeria: "Final assault" - many killed

[link to rt.com]

Shame. Should really be trying to take some of these fuckers alive.

Oh ffs

why bother! fuck em!

Report: 16 foreign hostages freed from Algeria gas plant, including 2 Americans, 2 Germans and 1 Portuguese, local source says - @Reuters

Report: Algerian army launches final assault on gas plant; 7 hostages and 11 kidnappers killed, state news agency says - @AP, @Reuters

Mines planted by militants around Algerian gas plant are being cleared by Algerian army, state energy firm Sonatrach says - @Reuters

More: Security source tells @AFP it is thought hostages were killed in retaliation for 'final' Algerian gas plant raid

thanks boku, i just wanted to start a new thread but saw yours then

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i don't get it, is everybody dead now or do they still have seven hostages there?!

Everyone is dead

The lack of interest on GLP in this major news story is somewhat surprising given that many western hostages are involved.

I think part of the problem is the minimal mainstream news coverage this has received here. It should be a huge news story, but it's been more of a footnote.

5*+

So a guy with one eye that sells American cigarettes has taken over a refinery.Sorry this is all fake.Did you see the rescued hostages clean shaven and not at all shaken up sipping tea and eating crumpets.This event never happened.More scare tactics to raise prices.

There's much more important stuff going on like Lance Armstrong, and the great Manti te'o Hoax, the Golden Globes, and jesus don't forget about the coming Inauguration! So much stuff to watch, so much stuff!

Just confusing as not sure which reports are new and which are old and being re-hashed.

the only thing on UK news is shit talking about 4 inches of fucking snow!!

It's that most "western" people know nothing about those big north African countries except that they are big deserts, and most people could not even imagine any reason for visiting there. Like at least in the Congo you got jungles and tribes with interesting masks, and Mali has their Dogun culture and some of the worlds oldest libraries, etc.... But Algeria has nothing (in our imagination) except a British Petroleum plant, and most people could give a rat's ass about British Petrolium, so long as they are not in their own country, because BP has a reputation to cause environmental damage far beyond that of a few westerners killed who chose to go work at those plants.

Maybe that is why most GLPers don't care, not that these issues aren't possibly important in terms of chains of events.

Last Edited by ehecatl on 01/19/2013 10:16 AM

I agree. It should be massive news!!! But since it is being made light of in MSM, its reflecting lightly everywhere.

mission failed?

same in France,all over the news "zomg its snowing in winter.." and its keeping sheeple aware of nothing...

congrats to algeria. they give no time to the islamists terrorists to build up. They did the right thing by giving the terroists no chance.
it could have taken even 2 years to free those hostages if they had try to communicate with the terrorists.

and now US&UK gov are bitching like pussys ...fuck them

i like how the Algerians just basically said "give up coz were gonna kill you anyway!"

zero tolerance!

They don't want any roadblocks in their taking over N. Africa, which is only in the beginning stages. Dozens of Westerners already killed in retaliation does not help their campaign.

The foreigners can all be replaced with a few phone calls.

The Algerian junta wanted their cash cow gas plant back, so they went in with gunships and full firepower.

Now stop bitching about the economy in the USA and send your resumes to BP,Algeria.

[link to english.alarabiya.net]

Here is more on.... "Suvivors describe horrors of Algeria desert seige."

Obama likes to negotiate with terrorists. He wants to treat them as 'equals' to civilized society.

They have been to busy talking about Lance and the Hawaiian.