[Clink]

The most telling part of the AP story: -------------------------------------- The kidnappers focused on the foreign workers, largely leaving alone the hundreds of Algerian workers who were briefly held hostage before being released or escaping. Several of them arrived haggard-looking on a late-night flight into Algiers on Friday and described how the militants stormed the living quarters and immediately separated out the foreigners. Mohamed, a 37-year-old nurse who like the others wouldn't allow his last names to be used for fear of trouble for himself or his family, said at least five people were shot to death, their bodies still in front of the infirmary when he left Thursday night. Chabane, who worked in food services, said he bolted out the window and was hiding when he heard the militants speaking among themselves with Libyan, Egyptian and Tunisian accents. At one point, he said, they caught a Briton. "They threatened him until he called out in English to his friends, telling them, `Come out, come out. They're not going to kill you. They're looking for the Americans,'" Chabane said. "A few minutes later, they blew him away." --------------------------------------------

[Sherman Logan]

Well, of course.

Terrorism is by definition political theater.

Who is going to watch if you take Algerians hostage? That won’t get you on CCN.

[MestaMachine]

PING

And there is this:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_ALGERIA_KIDNAPPING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-01-19-09-51-18

“The al-Qaida-linked militants attacked the plant Wednesday morning. They crept across the border from Libya, 60 miles (100 kilometers) away, and fell on a pair of buses taking foreign workers to the airport. The buses’ military escort drove off the attackers in a blaze of gunfire that sent bullets zinging over the heads of crouching workers. A Briton and an Algerian - probably a security guard - were killed.”

“Frustrated, the militants turned to the vast gas complex, divided between the workers’ living quarters and the refinery itself, and seized hostages, the Algerian government said. The gas flowing to the site was cut off.”

Has obama even acknowledged this? ANY of it? I don’t hardly watch TV anymore, so if he did, I missed it.

[bayouranger]

Reminds me of the British compound in saudi arabia where they went door to door asking their fellow koranimals who lived at the compound where Infidels lived. Their “neighbors” gave them up and they killed over 20 of them, IIRC. To top it off, as the filthy koranimals left the compound, they tied a Brit to the bumper of their cattle car & dragged him to his death over two miles.

Moral of the story:

Never trust koranimals.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Clink.

Chabane, who worked in food services, said he bolted out the window and was hiding when he heard the militants speaking among themselves with Libyan, Egyptian and Tunisian accents. At one point, he said, they caught a Briton. "They threatened him until he called out in English to his friends, telling them, 'Come out, come out. They're not going to kill you. They're looking for the Americans,'" Chabane said. "A few minutes later, they blew him away."