Algeria’s military
operation at the remote gas field of Ein Amenas is over. Few of the 41
foreign hostages - Norwegian, British, Japanese, American, French – are
thought to have survived although no definite numbers have been
released. They were kidnapped Wednesday dawn by North African al Qaeda
wing (AQIM) raiders who threatened to blow up the site with the hostages
unless France ended its intervention in Mali. This first al Qaeda
attack on an African energy site is feared the portent of terrorist
strikes on oil and gas sites across Africa and possibly Arabia. Oil
prices jumped 1.3 percent Thursday night.
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