PARIS MATCH (France), REUTERS Worldcrunch PARIS – The Islamist militant group behind the deadly hostage crisis at an Algerian gas plant that killed dozens of foreigners last week has threatened to carry out new attacks, especially against France. In a phone call to French weekly magazine Paris Match, a spokesman for Mokhtar Belmokhtar – the […]
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BBC, SKY NEWS (UK), SYDNEY MORNING HERALD (Australia), FRANCE 24, EURONEWS Worldcrunch ALGIERS – Foreign governments and news outlets were working Monday to verify the number of hostages killed during a bloody four-day Islamist terrorist seige of a gas treatment plant in southeastern Algeria. The Algerian government, which has been criticized by some for both […]
SLATE AFRIQUE Worldcrunch ALGIERS – Amidst conflicting reports of the fate of perhaps hundreds of hostages from a showdown between an Islamist terror group and Algerian security forces, the Algerian government has released the first video of some of those freed at the gas treatment facility in the remote southern part of the country. There […]