Death toll climbs past 80 in siege in the Sahara

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Bin Laden is Dead And An "Unknown Number" Of Hostages Are Dead


Associated Press;
The death toll from the bloody terrorist siege at a natural gas plant in the Sahara climbed to at least 81 on Sunday as Algerian forces searching the complex for explosives found dozens more bodies, many so badly disfigured they could not immediately be identified, a security official said.
An account from a survivor.


Is it just me who thinks this story being massively underplayed in the news cycle?
 

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Until we learn to be as single-minded as the fanatics - at home and abroad - we're ALL hostages

The immediate response to the Sahara atrocity must be revulsion, and deep sorrow for the families of those British and other hostages who were murdered in cold blood or killed in the rescue attempt.

Condemnation of the Algerian authorities for the loss of those hostages’ lives, in what has been termed a ‘bungled’ operation against the Islamist terrorists who stormed the Algerian gas complex, is nevertheless inappropriate.

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