Seven Americans are reportedly among those who have been kidnapped, and are now hostages of al Qaeda.
The raiders were also reported to have killed three people, including a Briton and a French national.
An al Qaeda affiliated group said the raid had been carried out because of Algeria’s decision to allow France to use its air space for attacks against Islamists in Mali, where French forces have been in action against al Qaeda-linked militants since last week.
The attack in southern Algeria also raised fears that the French action in Mali could prompt further Islamist revenge attacks on Western targets in Africa, where al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) operates across borders in the Sahara desert, and in Europe.
AQIM said it had carried out Wednesday’s raid on the In Amenas gas facility in OPEC member Algeria, Mauritania’s ANI news agency reported.
But…Obama told us that Al Qaeda is on the run…
He was misquoted. He actually said Road to Algeria.
Yeah, alqaeda is so much on the run that now it has its own state, in the former northern Mali, in the Azawad territory, and I think that this now is also the name of the state.
We were busy re-electing the subversive at the White House when this alqaeda state was created. The media didn’t think we should know anything about it.
They still don’t speak about it today.
– about the hostages. The toady press does not want to shame President Pettigrew.