Canadian Said To Coordinate Algeria Attack in Which 37 Hostages Died
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.
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Why didn't they just cross over the border into America if this was all about teaching Americans about Islam as they apparently told some Algerian workers?
Praise Allah, eh.
The Canadian police state must have intimidated them or something.
This is what happens to Canadians when there is a hockey strike
Er, lock-out or whatever.
TSA must be doing something right.
Fifty-four forty or fight!
It'd be nice to have Vancouver, B.C. as an American city.
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.
Are you from China by chance?
I never knew we'd get blowback a la Reason style from Canada for attacking Libya and acquiescing to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
Have we been secretly using drones to bomb Nova Scotia or something?
Mr. President, you see what happens when you block the Keystone XL pipeline?