BAMAKO, Mali — The hostage crisis in the Algerian desert reached a bloody conclusion Saturday as the army carried out a final assault on the gas field taken over by Islamist militants, killing 11 of them, but only after they had executed seven hostages, the official Algerian news agency reported.
French, British, and US officials said the Algerian government had told them the military operation was over, but a senior Algerian government official said security forces were ‘‘doing cleanup’’ to make sure no kidnappers were hiding in the sprawling industrial complex.
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It's nice to see the Algerians taking te initiative to battle the terrorists without asking or being forced by the West to do something. Go Algeria. It's to bad it didn't turn out so good but killing the terrorists and standing up for your country is good for everyone.
This Belmokhtar virus must be killed. I wonder if the Center for Disease Control might help, although dealing with these aggregations of organic scum would be distasteful for anyone.