Algeria says 37 foreigners die in siege led by Canadian

[dipsydoodle]

Last edited Mon Jan 21, 2013, 01:10 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - A total of 37 foreign workers died at an Algerian desert gas plant and seven are still missing after a hostage crisis coordinated by a Canadian, Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday.

Sellal also said that 29 Islamists had been killed in the siege, which Algerian forces ended by storming the plant, and three had been captured alive.

Earlier an Algerian security source told Reuters that documents found on the bodies of two militants had identified them as Canadians, as special forces scoured the plant following Saturday's bloody end to the siege.

"A Canadian was among the militants. He was coordinating the attack," Sellal told a news conference, adding that the raiders had threatened to blow up the gas installation.

The Canadian's name was given only as Chedad.

edited from earlier to reflect changes in Reuters own link.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/01/21/uk-sahara-crisis-idUKBRE90F1K220130121

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They'd already found at least one French one. Seems to have been a mixed batch.

[bemildred]

1. Resource extraction in the desert there just got a lot more expensive.

And you can tell that they were doing it on the cheap. No defenses at all, and everybody knew Ghaddaffi's weapons were floating around nearby.

This is so old school, the "kill them all God will know his own" attitude, but it fits the objective.

[RILib]

10. Clinton's weapons

That's what she unleashed.

[bemildred]

11. Nice hijack. nt

[L0oniX]

2. We need to attack Canada right now ...and Sid needs to be sent to Guantanamo. n/t

[formercia]

3. They probably ran out of Beer

with no resupply in the foreseeable Future.

No more Poutine for you.

[Bucky]

9. Not the right time

[dipsydoodle]

4. Reuters now saying he coordinated the jihadists.

OP edited to reflect Reuters changes.

[Kolesar]

5. thanks for the update...eom

[dipsydoodle]

7. More here

Who was the white jihadi? Algerian forces find 'two Canadians and at least one Frenchman' among bodies of gas plant gunmen.

Westerners including two Canadians and possibly a Frenchman were among the Al Qaeda terrorists responsible for the bloody Algerian hostage crisis, it was claimed today.

Algerian special forces discovered the bodies at the In Amenas facility, where the hostage death toll was thought to have risen to at least 57 today, including up to six Britons.

At least 35 heavily armed Al Qaeda operatives were killed, while five were today being interrogated by officials in the North African country.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265518/Algeria-crisis-Algerian-forces-Canadians-Frenchman-bodies-gas-plant-gunmen.html#ixzz2IdEOyrGe

[Enrique]

6. hoser n/t

[Comrade Grumpy]

8. Do we know how many Americans were killed yet?

This seems to be awfully slow in coming out...and it seems almost as if it's dropped down the memory hole already.