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Algeria - a bit of a sticky wicket.

Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:56 am

I hear the Algerian army tried to rescue the western hostages by.....strafing the area from helicopter gunships. I'm no expert but....
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Post by JimC » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:01 am

I gather most of the hostages died.

The SAS might have been a better bet, one imagines...
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:04 am

JimC wrote:I gather most of the hostages died.

The SAS might have been a better bet, one imagines...
Offers of British help were declined, apparently. Honestly, what's with former French colonies?
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Post by cronus » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:34 am

Cameron being trying to save some people again? :coffee:
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Post by Rum » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:31 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:
JimC wrote:I gather most of the hostages died.

The SAS might have been a better bet, one imagines...
Offers of British help were declined, apparently. Honestly, what's with former French colonies?
It is reported that the Algerians went for it before consulting other countries, including the UK. Who knows what the circumstances were..
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:32 am

You don't mess with the Signed In Blood Battalion. Ooh, they are tough.
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Post by Tero » Fri Jan 18, 2013 12:36 pm

If the idiots can't extract the oil/gas out of their ground on their own, leave it. We'll go back armed when we run out of other oil.
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Re: Algeria - a bit of a sticky wicket.

Post by Svartalf » Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:47 pm

Rum wrote:
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JimC wrote:I gather most of the hostages died.

The SAS might have been a better bet, one imagines...
Offers of British help were declined, apparently. Honestly, what's with former French colonies?
It is reported that the Algerians went for it before consulting other countries, including the UK. Who knows what the circumstances were..
a) they are used to deal with islamists by reducing their numbers as much as they can, you can guess how...
b) that particular bunch kept trying to escape with hostages when they had been warned that they could go if they didn't take anybody with them. After the 3rd or 4th try, the Algerian command decided that negociating plain didn't work.
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:15 pm

What are you folks doing in Algeria anyway? If you'd stop meddling in their business and interfering in their politics, this would not happen...

Grubbing for oil, I have no doubt.
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Re: Algeria - a bit of a sticky wicket.

Post by Audley Strange » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:17 pm

Shoot the hostages, then the kidnappers. That'll teach the lot of them.

Bloody Jihadists, still engaged in attacking us for our freedoms.

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:20 pm

It's not really happening. The whole thing is just a manufactured controversy designed to instill fear in the people so that your leaders can wage their wars of blood for oil. There is no global terrorism, no Jihadists. It's all made up.
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Re: Algeria - a bit of a sticky wicket.

Post by Audley Strange » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:32 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:It's not really happening. The whole thing is just a manufactured controversy designed to instill fear in the people so that your leaders can wage their wars of blood for oil. There is no global terrorism, no Jihadists. It's all made up.
Yep. Bomb Algeria!
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:37 pm

The US isn't involved, so, there is bound to be a good reason for what the Euros are doing over there.
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Re: Algeria - a bit of a sticky wicket.

Post by Audley Strange » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:48 pm

Yeah, fucking Europeans and their not bombing Algeria, soft on terrorism the lot of them!
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Re: Algeria - a bit of a sticky wicket.

Post by Rum » Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:55 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:The US isn't involved, so, there is bound to be a good reason for what the Euros are doing over there.
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