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US Confirms Americans Taken After Algeria Attack (SecDef Panetta: "Terrorist Attack"
AP via U.S. News ^ | Wednesday, January 16, 2013 | Bradley Klapper

Posted on 01/16/2013 10:47:03 AM PST by kristinn

The Obama administration is condemning an Islamist attack on a natural gas field in southern Algeria and confirming that Americans are among those being held hostage.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters in Italy that Americans were among the hostages and called the incident a "terrorist attack."

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To: kristinn

anyone noticed that ore Americans are being taken all over the world in these last couple of years, now if we had a non biased non corrupt media obama would be swept out of office with all this crap going on.

obama made a fool of himself and this country by appeasing to muslims America is looking weak and just think about it.

WE STILL DO NOT KNOW EHRE OBAMA WAS WHEN THE ATTACK HAPPENED IN LIBYA

Did he watch the attack live time in the sit room?

who gace that order to stand down?

This is months later and FRIGGING NOTHING FROM THE MEDIA, THE GOP AND THE WHITE HOUSE.


41 posted on 01/16/2013 12:07:09 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: brownsfan

Powell basically said the 4 shoudl not have been there and it was their fault.

We do not know where obama was during these attacks, did he go to sleep knowing the attacks were taking place?

Months later and we have no answers, the culprits are still out there, we are a laughing stoick since this muppett went over there and appeased them in his speeches.


42 posted on 01/16/2013 12:09:28 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: GQuagmire
The MNLA and Ansar Dine fight each other.

Ansar Dine and AQIM are provisionally allied.

MUJWA and AQIM fight each other sometimes and have a truce sometimes.

MUJWA and Ansar Dine have connections to one another and seem to work together sometimes.

What seems to happen is that when one of these groups conquer a town, they will fight anyone else who tries to take it, but they will sometimes ally themselves with another group that is fighting the government over a disputed territory.

They are all enemies of the government.

43 posted on 01/16/2013 12:13:55 PM PST by wideawake
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To: kristinn; All

I hope the Americans are not former military because they might end up line Jon Hammar.

At least .. that was my conclusion to the incident - Jon was ignored because he was MILITARY. Obama hates the military.


44 posted on 01/16/2013 12:21:51 PM PST by CyberAnt ("America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth".)
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To: wideawake

Sounds messy. Thanks for the info


45 posted on 01/16/2013 12:25:29 PM PST by GQuagmire
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To: kristinn

I can see why Panetta asked the Pope to pray for him a few days ago. He’s not a bright man amd was a Clinton stooge, but I think he’s pretty pro-American. That’s why Bambi picked him...to hang him out to dry.


46 posted on 01/16/2013 12:51:47 PM PST by livius
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To: kristinn
Quick someone find an unelected official to publicly announce he's been cheating on his wife so we can get this out of the news.

I need to start investing in companies that make easy to fall on swords.

47 posted on 01/16/2013 3:14:13 PM PST by Repeat Offender (What good are conservative principles if we don't stand by them?)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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48 posted on 01/16/2013 4:26:21 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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49 posted on 01/16/2013 4:26:46 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

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50 posted on 01/16/2013 4:27:39 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: kristinn

Look at the news sites. This story is buried about 7 to 10 stories down the list. Nothing to see here. Again, if this was Bush, it would have been plastered all over the headlines.

...if a hostage is taken and no one’s there to tape it, did it really happen???


51 posted on 01/16/2013 4:37:34 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: Pollster1

He hasn’t done that yet? What is he waiting for? How many more must die!? Think of the children!/sarc


52 posted on 01/16/2013 5:23:28 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: kristinn

You mean they didn’t have a video to blame it on? Bummer of Obo, he can’t say al qaeda is dead now. Meanwhile prayers for the hostages.


53 posted on 01/16/2013 5:47:55 PM PST by Karliner ( Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28- 8:38"...this is the end of the beginning."WC)
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To: Pollster1
Investors Business Daily ran an article recently that claims the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated top positions in the Obama administration and that Obama has been supplying terrorists through a supply chain originating from Benghazi. The claims were made by a foreign journalist

no one seems to care . I posted the article here and it got about 20 hits in the first 5 minutes but the mods immediatly buried it in "blogs" for some reason

54 posted on 01/16/2013 7:11:03 PM PST by KTM rider ( , you'd be lucky to get= $7....LOL !)
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To: allendale
This nonsense will continue until the West deals with the Saudi source. The Wahibbi fundamentalist radicals who operate freely in Saudi Arabia are funding and motivating the world wide Islamic terror wave. The decadent royal Saudi family is terrified of them and the radicals do not bother them as long as they get funded and are allowed to operate.

You are totally correct.

And yet, this goes unreported, undiscussed, unseen. I fear that by the time people wake up to the extent of the Saudi corruption and threat, it will be too late.

55 posted on 01/16/2013 7:38:32 PM PST by BlackVeil
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To: wideawake; Cindy

Good info .... Grateful !


56 posted on 01/16/2013 8:39:00 PM PST by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: wideawake; Squantos

bump and thank you for the ping Squantos.


57 posted on 01/17/2013 12:26:13 AM PST by Cindy
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To: All

ADDING to post no. 43:

http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Al%20Qaeda/common/

http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Ansar%20Dine/common/

http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Al%20Qaeda%20in%20the%20Arabian%20Peninsula/common/

http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Movement%20for%20Tawhid%20and%20Jihad%20in%20West%20Africa/common/

#

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/01/west_african_jihadis.php

“West African jihadist group forms 4 ‘battalions,’ names 3 after al Qaeda leaders”

By BILL ROGGIO
January 9, 2013


58 posted on 01/17/2013 12:38:48 AM PST by Cindy
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To: All

http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Al%20Qaeda%20in%20the%20Islamic%20Maghreb/common/

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http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Al%20Qaeda/common/

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2013/01/al_qaeda_commander_c.php

“Al Qaeda-linked group claims credit for kidnappings in Algeria”
By THOMAS JOSCELYN & BILL ROGGIO
January 16, 2013

PHOTO CAPTION: “Al Qaeda commander Mokhtar Belmokhtar. Image from the SITE Intelligence Group”

SNIPPET: “A notorious al Qaeda commander named Mokhtar Belmokhtar has claimed credit for kidnapping more than 40 foreign nationals at a BP oil field in eastern Algeria today, according to multiple press reports.”


59 posted on 01/17/2013 12:43:20 AM PST by Cindy
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To: brownsfan
...but his point was, Benghazi was only 4 people, no big deal, didn't matter.

To quote Dear Leader, "bumps in the road"...

60 posted on 01/17/2013 12:59:52 AM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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