Algerian bomb squads scouring a gas plant where Islamist militants took dozens of foreign workers hostage found “numerous” new bodies on Sunday as they searched for explosive traps left behind by the attackers, a security official said, a day after a bloody raid ended the four-day siege of the remote desert refinery.
The official, who spoke condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation, said the bodies were badly disfigured and difficult to identify.
“The bodies could be either Algerian or foreign hostages,” he said.
Algerian special forces stormed the natural gas complex in the Sahara desert on Saturday to end the standoff, and the government said all 32 militants were killed. Earlier Sunday, Algeria’s chief government spokesman said he feared the toll of hostages — which stood at 23 on Saturday — would rise as the special forces teams finished their search.
He said the militants came from six countries and were armed to cause maximum destruction. Sonatrach, the Algerian state oil company running the Ain Amenas site along with BP and Norway’s Statoil, said the entire refinery had been mined.
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Isn’t this just another case of Obama’s workplace violence? It was committed by Obama’s people, so it must be!
Want to bet that the arms that the militants used to kill the hostages were supplied by Barack Hussein Obama? Obama will go down in history as the biggest weapons supplier to the enemy, that resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent American people, that were sent to try and bring democracy to savages, it simply does not work.
Obama is giving thousands upon thousands of high grade military weapons to our enemies and they are using those weapons to do Obama’s biddings, they got rid of Gaddafi and they will with Obama’s continued support soon get rid of Assad, the president of Syria.
Obama has armed our enemies, since our enemies have proven to be his friends.
I totally agree with you. Obama is the worst enemy this world has ever known, and his actions prove it daily.