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Obama blames ‘terrorists’ for Algeria hostage deaths

President Barack Obama gestures as he answers questions from members of the media during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 14, 2013.  AP FILE PHOTO

US President Barack Obama said Saturday that blame for deaths stemming from a hostage crisis in Algeria lay with the “terrorists” who had earlier taken foreigners captive at a remote gas plant.

Posted: January 20th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

Algeria: 12 hostages have died in the siege

Algerian special police unit officers secure the hospital in Ain Amenas, Algeria, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, two days after the start of the terrorist attack at a gas plant. The hostage crisis in the remote desert of Algeria is not over, Britain said Friday, after an Algerian raid on the gas plant to wipe out Islamist militants and free their captives from at least 10 countries unleashed bloody chaos. AP/Anis Belghoul

The bloody three-day hostage standoff at a natural gas plant in the Sahara took a dramatic turn Friday as Algeria’s state news service reported that nearly 100 of the 132 foreign workers kidnapped by Islamic militants had been freed.

Posted: January 19th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

Norway suspect borrowed from Unabomber’s manifesto

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This image shows Anders Behring Breivik from a manifesto attributed to him that was discovered Saturday, July 23. The Norwegian news agency NTB said Breivik wrote a 1,500-page manifesto before the attack in which he attacked multiculturalism and Muslim immigration. (AP Photo/via Scanpix)

DENVER — Parts of the manifesto written by the suspect in Norway’s terrorist attacks were taken almost word for word from the writings of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski. The passages copied by Anders Behring Breivik appear in the first few pages of Kaczynski’s manifesto. Breivik changed a Kaczynski screed on leftism and what he considered to [...]

Posted: July 25th, 2011 in Latest News Stories,Photos & Videos,World | Read More »

Seven killed as Taliban attack Kabul hotel

Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a top Kabul hotel, sparking a five-hour battle with Afghan commandos backed by a NATO helicopter in an assault that left at least seven people dead Wednesday.

Posted: June 29th, 2011 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

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