#myjihad in Algeria Bloodbath: 2 Americans Dead, 'We in Al Qaeda announce this blessed operation"

Mohammed Said, Algeria’s communications minister, confirmed that that the charred corpses were found lying inside a heavily fortified compound at the BP run facility.
Mr Said said that ‘the number feared dead will unfortunately be revised upwards’, saying that searches would carry on ‘for a number of days’.
The jihadists had strapped Semtex explosives around the torsos of many of their captives, threatening to blow them up at a moment’s notice.

And Obama said and did nothing except to say Al Qaedas has been vanquished. Tell that to the hundreds of  family members whose left ones died because they were ‘kufar.”

The Al Qaeda arsenal: Weapons, handcuffs and phones recovered from
Algerian gas plant as one-eyed fugitive Mr Marlboro claims
responsibility for hostage bloodbath Daily Mail, January 20, 2013

• Siege reaches climax after seven executed in final act of violence
• ‘We in Al Qaeda announce this blessed operation’, said one-eyed leader
• Three Britons confirmed dead – further three feared to be dead
• Among those feared to be dead include Garry Barlow from Liverpool
• Happened just as special forces soldiers storm desert gas facility
• All 11 remaining militants shot dead in a
  fierce gun battle
• In total, 32 kidnappers and 23 captives had died in the siege
• 22 British nationals have been flown back to the UK

By
Ian Gallagher and Larisa Brown, Daily Mail

Five terrorists have been captured
alive at the Algerian gas plant, security sources have confirmed, as
officials uncovered a huge cache of weapons stashed by the militants.

The developments came after the >one-eyed master of terror, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, claimed responsibility for the hostage crisis which ended in a murderous bloodshed yesterday.

In a chilling video message,the militant Islamist leader, nicknamed ‘Mr Marlboro’ for his illicit cigarette empire, said: ‘We in Al Qaeda announce this blessed operation.’

He
said he was ready to negotiate with Algeria and Western countries if
they stop bombing North Mali. His message came as 25 burnt bodies have
been discovered inside a gas plant today. 

Militant Islamist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar has
said he is ready to negotiate with Algeria and Western countries if they
stop bombing North Mali. The picture is taken from Sahara Media’s
website

A view of the weapons seized by the Algerian
authorities at the gas plant. The pile, which included handcuffs and
bullets, were shown to journalists in the town of In Amenas

Garry Barlow, 49, from Liverpool who was a
systems supervisor on the plant and is feared to be among the British
nationals who have been killed in the bloodshed

Three Britons were confirmed dead this morning and a further three feared to be dead, along with a UK national.

mong those feared to be dead is Garry Barlow, 49, from Liverpool, who was a systems supervisor at the plant.

A
total of 22 British nationals have now been flown back to the UK to be
reunited with their loved ones after being caught up in the horrifying
ordeal which began in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Sahara Media did not display the video of Belmokhtar, 41, itself on its
site and it was not immediately possible to verify the information.

‘We in Al Qaeda announce this blessed operation,’ Belmokhtar said in the video, according to Sahara Media.

‘We are ready to negotiate with the West and the Algerian government provided they stop their bombing of Mali’s Muslims.’

A
huge cache of the weapons seized by the Algerian authorities following
the siege yesterday has been shown to journalists in the town of In
Amenas.

The weapons included handcuffs, bullets, hand grenades and assault rifle magazines.

he four-day siege reached its
climax after seven workers were executed in a final, monstrous act of
violence by their Al Qaeda-linked captors just as special forces
soldiers stormed the desert gas facility to try to rescue them. Their
nationalities are not yet known.

All of the 11 remaining militants – who
had booby-trapped the complex with explosives – were later shot dead in a
fierce gun battle.

• ‘We’re
  only after the Christians…’ Minutes later a Briton lay dead:
  Terrifying moment gas plant gunmen rounded up non-Muslims and strapped
  explosive to their necks
• MARK ALMOND: This was the ‘surprise’ attack that everybody should have seen coming

The news that the siege had ended came
as the first pictures emerged of the moment the militants took control
of the BP plant in the Sahara. They show terrified workers kneeling in
the sand with their hands in the air.

Last
night the Algerian interior ministry announced that, in total, 32
kidnappers and 23 captives had died in the siege.

Moment of surrender: The terrifying first image of hostages being taken captive by Al Qaeda terrorists

In fear of their lives: Hostages put their hands up, in dramatic footage of their ordeal broadcast on Algerian TV

In action: A member of the Algerian special forces, also known as the kouksoul

The Algerian government today
said more than 23 hostages have died and the new discovery of bodies
means that number is likely to rise in the coming hours.

In the course
of the stand-off 685 Algerian and 107 foreign workers were freed.
Efforts are now under way to try to identify a number of burned bodies
found by Algerian troops after the fighting ended. 

Algeria’s
Ennahar TV reported that 25 bodies have so far been discovered inside
the gas plant. An Algerian official said they were discovered by
de-mining squads searching for explosives.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2265349/Algeria-bloodbath-Weapons-handcuffs-phones-recovered-Algerian-gas-plant-eyed-fugitive-Mr-Marlboro-claims-responsibility-hostage-bloodbath.html#ixzz2IXPEFkkb
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