Friday, January 18, 2013
Algeria Attackers Apparently Came from Libya
More blowback from the unnecessary US/NATO intervention in Libya, which replaced a contained secular dictatorship that had become an asset in the war against radical Islam with an anarchic nightmare in which Islamists, including the murderers of an American ambassador, are running wild, free to plot and plan cross-border terrorist operations. Read more.
This is what comes from perfidious policies of appeasement and "engagement"--code for collaboration. There is no "moderate" Islamism, just as there was no moderate Nazism. The notion of a moderate Muslim Brotherhood, moderate Taliban, moderate mullahs within Iran's Islamist regime and establishment is worse than idiotic--it's suicidal.
The Case Against Yet Another Arab State in Historic Palestine
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Algerian LNG Important to Europe
European energy experts are keeping a watchful eye on the unfolding crisis in Algeria, where a loss of LNG supplies could increase the Continent's reliance on Russian gas.
Algeria is the EU’s third most important gas supplier behind Russia and Norway.
The In Amenas facility in eastern Algeria that was taken over by Islamist terrorists is operated by the UK’s BP. It owns close to 50% of the plant with Norway’s Statoil and Algeria’s Sonatrach. The plant's output accounts for 12% of Algerian gas production and 18% of the country’s gas exports.
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