DEBKAfile Special Report January 18, 2013, 6:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Long-sought Algerian terrorist Moktar Belmoktar
The Al Qaeda group which seized hostages from 10 nations at the remote Algerian gas field in In Aminas Wednesday, Jan. 16, has addressed its first demand to the United States: The release of two American hostages for two high-profile Islamist terrorists jailed in the US: Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Blind Sheikh convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and Pakistani-American neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, convicted for trying to kill US troops and FBI agents in Afghanistan in 2009. Algerian forces still battle terrorists holed up with hostages..
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Dark uncertainty over more than scores of Algerian gas field hostages
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January 18, 2013, 7:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Algeria's hostage operation was still ongoing at the In Amenas gas field Friday. The hostages’ 10 governments, including Britain, Norway, Japan, America, France, Austria and Malaysia, have not released casualty figures of the foreigners seized Wednesday morning by North African al Qaeda (AQIM) raiders, as some are still held by terrotists at the gas site. Known to be missing are 7 Americans, 12 British, 17 Japanese and 14 Norwegians. France continues its counterterrorism operation in Mali, the subject of this DEBKA video.
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