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mastermariner Champion Author Texas Posts:4,835 Points:521,425 Joined:Jun 2011	Message Posted: Jan 19, 2013 10:43:36 AM Ignore mastermariner Report Abuse Army kills 11 militants; seven more hostages dead - agency * Military clearing plant of mines * Overall toll still unclear By Lamine Chikhi and Abdelaziz Boumzar ALGIERS/IN AMENAS, Algeria, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Algerian army on Saturday carried out a final assault on al Qaeda-linked gunmen holed up in a desert gas plant, killing 11 of the Islamists after they took the lives of seven more foreign hostages, a local source and the state news agency said. "It is over now, the assault is over, and the military are inside the plant clearing it of mines," a local source familiar with the operation told Reuters. The state oil and gas company, Sonatrach, said the militants who attacked the plant on Wednesday and took a large number of hostages had booby-trapped the complex with explosives. Visit Reute

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Army kills 11 militants; seven more hostages dead - agency

* Military clearing plant of mines

* Overall toll still unclear

By Lamine Chikhi and Abdelaziz Boumzar

ALGIERS/IN AMENAS, Algeria, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Algerian army on Saturday carried out a final assault on al Qaeda-linked gunmen holed up in a desert gas plant, killing 11 of the Islamists after they took the lives of seven more foreign hostages, a local source and the state news agency said.

"It is over now, the assault is over, and the military are inside the plant clearing it of mines," a local source familiar with the operation told Reuters.

The state oil and gas company, Sonatrach, said the militants who attacked the plant on Wednesday and took a large number of hostages had booby-trapped the complex with explosives.
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remay Champion Author Houston Posts:7,078 Points:2,143,665 Joined:May 2006	Message Posted: Jan 21, 2013 6:55:51 AM Ignore remay Report Abuse And this is probably only just the beginning
52MPG Champion Author Dayton Posts:7,397 Points:1,768,430 Joined:Apr 2006	Message Posted: Jan 20, 2013 12:18:51 AM Ignore 52MPG Report Abuse The price for working in Algeria is probably going up.
BuckyTJones Champion Author Salt Lake City Posts:4,932 Points:967,950 Joined:Mar 2010	Message Posted: Jan 19, 2013 10:02:31 PM Ignore BuckyTJones Report Abuse This will not be the end of this kind of action.
knutzAL Champion Author Alabama Posts:2,248 Points:372,680 Joined:Feb 2012	Message Posted: Jan 19, 2013 7:28:02 PM Ignore knutzAL Report Abuse We don't negotiate either. It just takes a longer time to get around to saying so.
doeslayersr Champion Author Illinois Posts:9,298 Points:898,730 Joined:Dec 2010	Message Posted: Jan 19, 2013 6:21:47 PM Ignore doeslayersr Report Abuse The musloids are really brave when their opponent is not armed. Not surprising. The main focus of the Koran (or Quran) is war as it glorifies a warrior. The main focus of the Bible is Peace as it glorifies the Son of a carpenter. The sooner the infidels and western non muslim world wake up and realize the only good non muslim to the musloids is a dead non muslim, then the sooner the situation can be resolved. One of these days the media may start telling the truth about what is going on in Mali. The media has not been covering Mali or reporting on it for the past year or so. [Edited by: doeslayersr at 1/19/2013 6:24:29 PM EST]
JDchefF Champion Author Lancaster Posts:1,167 Points:252,170 Joined:Aug 2012	Message Posted: Jan 19, 2013 5:30:02 PM Ignore JDchefF Report Abuse Scary what fanatics will do in the name of religion.
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mastermariner Champion Author Texas Posts:4,835 Points:521,425 Joined:Jun 2011	Message Posted: Jan 19, 2013 3:46:32 PM Ignore mastermariner Report Abuse Sadly to say that is one of the prices of the oil & gas industry.
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Suzzoom Champion Author Nevada Posts:2,499 Points:532,750 Joined:Jan 2011	Message Posted: Jan 19, 2013 2:22:04 PM Ignore Suzzoom Report Abuse They couldn't extort any money out of the oil folks, so they decided to blow everything & everyone to kingdom come.
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