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170 hostages in Mali luxury hotel
Arutz Sheva ^ | 20/11/15 | Ari Yashar

Posted on 11/20/2015 1:00:37 AM PST by Eleutheria5

Muslim terrorists opened fire on an upscale hotel on Friday in the city of Bamako, the capital of the western African state of Mali.

The jihadists used automatic weapons according to security sources, and apparently have taken people hostage in the Radisson Blu Hotel. Some reports indicate that at least three people have died in the attack.

The luxury hotel, which has 190 rooms, is a popular site for Western officials according to French-language media.

According to the French RFI radio, the attack was launched by three assailants who entered the hotel with diplomatic cars.

Security forces have set up a cordon around the building, and a security source told AFP that "it's all happening on the seventh floor, jihadists are firing in the corridor."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: africa; alqaeda; bamako; hostage; hostages; hotel; islam; jihad; mali; malijihadattack; malimap; malimuslims; mourabitoun; radisson; radissonblu; radissonbluhotel; rop
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To: Eleutheria5

In this day and time...you have to be foolish to travel to such a country. You may not be able to help it if it is your job. But you are talking your life into your hands every time you step into one of these 3rd world hell holes.

I travels a LOT in the 1980s and into the late 1990s. You could not pay me enough to do so now.

God help the hostages and bless them and their loved ones. God help the troops who are tasked with taking down these animals.

In order to defeat radical Islam we are going to have to munt a campaign similar to what we did to the Nazis and Imperial Japanese.

Turn all of their cities into rubble. Kill all who fight us, or who support those fighting. Indiscriminant bombing, humbling the entire people...until the beg us to stop and accept unconditional surrender.

Then we will have to spend 30 years occupying what’s left turning them into civilized nations just like we did Germany and Japan.

That’s what it is going to take. Anything less will just prolong the butchery.


121 posted on 11/20/2015 6:03:32 AM PST by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: maggie

REUTERS: U.S. Defense official says about 25 U.S. military personnel were in Bamako at the time of the hotel incident.


122 posted on 11/20/2015 6:05:53 AM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

REUTERS:

Mali hotel gunment have dug in on building’s seventh floor as special forces advance - Security source


123 posted on 11/20/2015 6:09:32 AM PST by maggief
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

I think we are close to a WW II type effort! Meaning “The Allies” took on the Axix powers and devoted 100% of all nations human and material and emotional resources to the eradication of the Nazis and the Japs and the fascists of Mussolini.

Now, WW III will concern itself with turning Islam into the same dirty word “Nazi” has evolved to and the N word!

All western countries are going to have to join in and occupy whatever and whichever Muslim lands to eradicate 12th Century Islam. In the course of executing the “occupation” all principles and adherents of radical Islam will be hung, just like we hung the Nazis and the Japs and Hussein.


124 posted on 11/20/2015 6:10:41 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: maggief

Huh. Interesting. .


125 posted on 11/20/2015 6:11:13 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: SE Mom

BBC:

The Malian Security Ministry has announced that three of the gunmen who seized the Radisson hotel in Bamako have been killed so far during the ongoing operation by security forces, independent Malian site Abamako reports.

The gunmen are reportedly heading for the roof of the building.


126 posted on 11/20/2015 6:14:33 AM PST by maggief
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To: SE Mom

Could it be that US forces were in Bamako due to the mining conference?

http://jmpmali.com/agenda/
http://jmpmali.com/our-partners/exhibitors/

REUTERS:

MALI: The US State Department has said American citizens may be inside the Mali hotel - and it is working to verify whether this is the case.


127 posted on 11/20/2015 6:16:25 AM PST by maggief
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To: Eleutheria5

World tourism to places with lots of Muslims? Probably dropping in popularity.


128 posted on 11/20/2015 6:18:51 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: maggief

Why can’t the terrorists just take a big building filled with the Politically Correct Media???


129 posted on 11/20/2015 6:21:12 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Eleutheria5

Enough of this nonsense. Nuke Mecca, and kill any Muslims who are still Muslims after that.


130 posted on 11/20/2015 6:22:13 AM PST by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: Eleutheria5

Luxury... Mali??

no way.


131 posted on 11/20/2015 6:22:43 AM PST by GeronL (I remember when this was a conservative forum)
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To: maggief

Great research maggie, as always.


132 posted on 11/20/2015 6:23:04 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Yaelle

And take out their allies?


133 posted on 11/20/2015 6:24:07 AM PST by maggief
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To: JudyinCanada

For breaking news, CNN is always better than Fox.


134 posted on 11/20/2015 6:27:04 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: maggief

It was only a wish. :)


135 posted on 11/20/2015 6:27:34 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

:)


136 posted on 11/20/2015 6:28:35 AM PST by maggief
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To: Cen-Tejas

The way it stands now, the Nazis were kinder to their “infidels” than the Islamists are. No bread, no water, no striped pajamas, no chance to work or march to death. Just sudden torture and death.


137 posted on 11/20/2015 6:30:08 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: JPX2011

***Reuters reporting that some hostages have been freed. Those who can recite verses from the Koran.***

That can’t be. Obama said this isn’t about Islam or religion.


138 posted on 11/20/2015 6:31:53 AM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: maggief

REUTERS:

U.S. military spokesman says 6 American citizens are among those recovered in hotel

French Special forces are on site at hotel in Bamako since early this afternoon - Defence Minister


139 posted on 11/20/2015 6:33:43 AM PST by maggief
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To: TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed

Any time anything goes south anywhere in the world, I have come to expect that a Muslim is involved.

...

According to Obama they are no more harmful than tourists.


140 posted on 11/20/2015 6:41:06 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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