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Although this doesn't really fit this topic, didn't find anywhere better to post. Before a post, a small rant.
Why is it that the west have to act like a big boss and police all the world? Latest e.g. After Afghanstan, Pak, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and now... Mali where french forces have started bombing and killing 1000s.
This news piece is from Algeria (close to Mali I think) and the reason I posted here is because the "Terrorists" who have hundreds of hostages have presented only 3 demands.
1. End French occupation of Mali
2. Free some egyptian "terrorist" jailed in the US
3. Free Dr Aafia!!!
As a Muslim woman, I seriously am saddened by Dr Aafias treatment carried out by US and false charges (although she may be a terrorist, but those charges were false). She should be tried in Pakistan if she was guilty. anyways, here is the news item. Sorry for the long rant
Also, dont trust one source of news, many sites have many different number of hostages but same demands
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Algeria siege: 'Around 30' hostages unaccounted for
Hundreds of hostages have been freed from militants at an Algerian gas facility, state media say, but about 30 foreigners are still unaccounted for.
State-run APS news agency said those freed at the In Amenas installation included 573 Algerians and 'around 100' of 132 foreign workers.
The militants remained holed up at the site, APS said. About 10 Britons are thought to be still held.
At least four foreign workers died when troops moved in on Thursday.
A "comprehensive total" of the hostages still held was not available and some of them had taken refuge at various points around the site, a security source told APS earlier.
Beyond the human cost, people here are already talking about serious implications for the country's economy.
The Islamist fighters hit an extremely sensitive target - hydrocarbons. Petrol and gas are Algeria's economic mainstays, accounting for 98% of export receipts.
BBC Afrique
The agency had previously issued a less precise total of freed foreign hostages, saying "more than half" of the 132 had been liberated.
The source said special forces were seeking a "peaceful end" to the crisis.
The UK Foreign Office has refused to confirm the latest figures released by APS.
Japanese officials were quoted as saying that at least 14 Japanese nationals were still missing. At least three managed to escape.
Norway said eight of its nationals were currently unaccounted for, while five escaped.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said two French workers were safe. It was unclear if another two were involved, he added.
One Irish citizen, an Austrian and five Americans have been freed, according to officials.
French national Alexandre Berceaux, who worked for CIS Catering, told French media he had hidden under the bed in his room for 40 hours before being rescued.
Fourteen Japanese missing
Eight Norwegians missing
Around 10 Britons thought to be still held
Unknown number of Americans
Possibly citizens of Romania, Thailand, the Philippines, Colombia, South Korea and Austria
Two French citizens safe
One Irish citizen from Northern Ireland safe
One Kenyan safe
One Austrian safe
The installation had been put out of action to avoid the risk of an explosion, the state news agency reported.
Meanwhile, BP said on Friday that hundreds of workers from international oil companies had been evacuated from Algeria on Thursday and that many more would follow.
On Friday morning, a spokesman for the group thought to be behind the attack told the Mauritanian ANI agency that it would carry out further operations.
Algeria has yet to give precise casualty figures from Thursday's rescue attempt.
APS cited local officials as saying two Britons and two Filipinos were killed.
Two others, a Briton and an Algerian, died on Wednesday when the militants ambushed a bus that was taking foreign workers at the facility to the local airport.
A spokesman for the militants told the ANI agency - which has received several messages from the kidnappers - that 35 hostages and 15 militants had been killed in Thursday's operation. One Algerian official said the figures were "exaggerated".
On Friday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament that he had been told by his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmalek Sellal, that troops were "still pursuing terrorists and possibly some of the hostages".
Later, a British plane carrying an emergency deployment team arrived at an airstrip at Hassi Messaoud, about 280 miles (450km) from the BP plant.
Despite requests for communication and pleas to consider the hostages' safety, the UK, Japan and US said they had not been told in advance about the military assault.
A statement purporting to come from the kidnappers says the raid was carried out in retaliation for the French intervention against Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), in neighbouring Mali.
But BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera says the kidnapping was a complex operation which is unlikely to have been planned and carried out since the surprising French intervention in Mali last Friday.
Algerian officials said the militants were operating under orders from Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who was a senior AQIM commander until late last year.
On Friday, ANI quoted sources from Belmokhtar's group as saying that they wanted to exchange their American captives for two high-profile detainees in American jails.
They are the Egyptian Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted over the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York, and Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted in 2010 of attempting to kill US military personnel.
Source: BBC
Why is it that the west have to act like a big boss and police all the world? Latest e.g. After Afghanstan, Pak, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and now... Mali where french forces have started bombing and killing 1000s.
This news piece is from Algeria (close to Mali I think) and the reason I posted here is because the "Terrorists" who have hundreds of hostages have presented only 3 demands.
1. End French occupation of Mali
2. Free some egyptian "terrorist" jailed in the US
3. Free Dr Aafia!!!
As a Muslim woman, I seriously am saddened by Dr Aafias treatment carried out by US and false charges (although she may be a terrorist, but those charges were false). She should be tried in Pakistan if she was guilty. anyways, here is the news item. Sorry for the long rant
Also, dont trust one source of news, many sites have many different number of hostages but same demands~~~~
Algeria siege: 'Around 30' hostages unaccounted for
Hundreds of hostages have been freed from militants at an Algerian gas facility, state media say, but about 30 foreigners are still unaccounted for.
State-run APS news agency said those freed at the In Amenas installation included 573 Algerians and 'around 100' of 132 foreign workers.
The militants remained holed up at the site, APS said. About 10 Britons are thought to be still held.
At least four foreign workers died when troops moved in on Thursday.
A "comprehensive total" of the hostages still held was not available and some of them had taken refuge at various points around the site, a security source told APS earlier.
Beyond the human cost, people here are already talking about serious implications for the country's economy.
The Islamist fighters hit an extremely sensitive target - hydrocarbons. Petrol and gas are Algeria's economic mainstays, accounting for 98% of export receipts.
BBC Afrique
The agency had previously issued a less precise total of freed foreign hostages, saying "more than half" of the 132 had been liberated.
The source said special forces were seeking a "peaceful end" to the crisis.
The UK Foreign Office has refused to confirm the latest figures released by APS.
Japanese officials were quoted as saying that at least 14 Japanese nationals were still missing. At least three managed to escape.
Norway said eight of its nationals were currently unaccounted for, while five escaped.
French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said two French workers were safe. It was unclear if another two were involved, he added.
One Irish citizen, an Austrian and five Americans have been freed, according to officials.
French national Alexandre Berceaux, who worked for CIS Catering, told French media he had hidden under the bed in his room for 40 hours before being rescued.
Fourteen Japanese missing
Eight Norwegians missing
Around 10 Britons thought to be still held
Unknown number of Americans
Possibly citizens of Romania, Thailand, the Philippines, Colombia, South Korea and Austria
Two French citizens safe
One Irish citizen from Northern Ireland safe
One Kenyan safe
One Austrian safe
The installation had been put out of action to avoid the risk of an explosion, the state news agency reported.
Meanwhile, BP said on Friday that hundreds of workers from international oil companies had been evacuated from Algeria on Thursday and that many more would follow.
On Friday morning, a spokesman for the group thought to be behind the attack told the Mauritanian ANI agency that it would carry out further operations.
Algeria has yet to give precise casualty figures from Thursday's rescue attempt.
APS cited local officials as saying two Britons and two Filipinos were killed.
Two others, a Briton and an Algerian, died on Wednesday when the militants ambushed a bus that was taking foreign workers at the facility to the local airport.
A spokesman for the militants told the ANI agency - which has received several messages from the kidnappers - that 35 hostages and 15 militants had been killed in Thursday's operation. One Algerian official said the figures were "exaggerated".
On Friday, UK Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament that he had been told by his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmalek Sellal, that troops were "still pursuing terrorists and possibly some of the hostages".
Later, a British plane carrying an emergency deployment team arrived at an airstrip at Hassi Messaoud, about 280 miles (450km) from the BP plant.
Despite requests for communication and pleas to consider the hostages' safety, the UK, Japan and US said they had not been told in advance about the military assault.
A statement purporting to come from the kidnappers says the raid was carried out in retaliation for the French intervention against Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), in neighbouring Mali.
But BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera says the kidnapping was a complex operation which is unlikely to have been planned and carried out since the surprising French intervention in Mali last Friday.
Algerian officials said the militants were operating under orders from Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who was a senior AQIM commander until late last year.
On Friday, ANI quoted sources from Belmokhtar's group as saying that they wanted to exchange their American captives for two high-profile detainees in American jails.
They are the Egyptian Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted over the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York, and Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui, who was convicted in 2010 of attempting to kill US military personnel.
Source: BBC
