KCSMMHZ Journal January 18, 2013
The hostage standoff at a saharan national gas plant took a dramatic turn today as algerias state news service reported that nearly 100 of the 132 Foreign Workers kidnapped had been freed . The fate of those still in captivity remains unclear. An islamist militants also initially seized 573 algerians, all of whom were later released. The Al Qaedalinked groups took the hostages supposedly to pressure france into ending its military intervention in mali. Algerian state television aired these images of hostages celebrating their release. They described the dramatic rescue operation. We were in a ...