Militants seize foreign hostages in Algeria

As Algerian army helicopters clattered overhead deep in the Sahara desert, Islamist militants hunkered down for the night in a natural gas complex they had assaulted Wednesday morning, killing two people and taking dozens of foreigners hostage in what could be the first spillover from France's intervention in Mali. The Algerian army has surrounded the complex and about 1,600 kilometres from the coast, there is no obvious way for the kidnappers to escape in their four wheel drive vehicles with their hostages.

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It's gonna go global now.
Maybe it's the conservative in me (there isn't much) But I fricking get tired of these Islamic-terrorist bullies tearing down statues and hacking folks up for fornicating. .. and drinking .. (burp)

maybe it's time for the kids to get out of the sand box.

Two identical threads, my bad, mods can move this one if they like