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Algeria Hostage Crisis Comes to a Bloody End
Arutz Sheva ^ | 19/1/13

Posted on 01/19/2013 11:59:46 AM PST by Eleutheria5

A four day hostage crisis ended Saturday in a final assault by Algerian special forces on a group of Islamic terrorists who were holed up, along with dozens of hostages, in a gas facility in the country.

The forces stormed the complex resulting in the deaths of at least 19 hostages and 29 Islamist terrorists.

The Niger terrorist believed to lead the al-Qaeda splinter group, Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri, is reported...among those killed.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: algeria; bloody; end; hostagecrisis
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To: Eleutheria5

Thank goodness Obama weakened AQ greatly in his first term. At this rate they will be extinct by the next election.


21 posted on 01/19/2013 3:54:39 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Eleutheria5

The first lesson of the Middle East is don’t go there.


22 posted on 01/19/2013 3:57:39 PM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: canuck_conservative
notice that Algeria kept going until every terrorist was killed.

Yep, them ain't a go'n to come back to do it again after a free Caribbean vacation.

23 posted on 01/19/2013 8:49:04 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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