Per
Gateway Pundit:
"The state news agency reported today that all seven hostages were killed today in a raid on the gas plant. The hostages were reportedly killed in retaliation to the attack. The militants attacked the plant Wednesday morning, creeping across the border from Libya, 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the natural gas plant.
Two Americans were reportedly held by the hostages at the plant.
The AP reported:
Algeria’s special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert on Saturday in a “final assault” aimed at ending a four-day-old hostage crisis, the state news agency reported. It said 11 militants and seven hostages were killed.
The report, quoting a security source, didn’t say whether any hostages or militants remained alive, and it didn’t give the nationalities of the dead. It said the army was forced to intervene after a fire broke out in the plant.
The siege at the Ain Amenas plant, jointly run by BP, Norway’s Statoil and Algeria’s state-owned oil company, transfixed the world after radical Islamists stormed the complex, which contained hundreds of plant workers from all over the world.
Algeria’s response to the crisis was typical of the country’s history in confronting terrorists – military action over negotiation – and caused an international outcry from countries worried about their citizens.
The latest deaths bring the official Algerian tally of dead to 19 hostages and 29 militants, although reports on the number of dead, injured and freed have been contradictory throughout the crisis."
The bolded part I'd heard from another source, that the Algerians don't dance with these scum; they just kill 'em and let the chips fall, even if it means dead hostages.
Once upon a time, the US said the same thing: we don't negotiate with terrorists.
