PBS’s Held Hostage looks at the January 2013 al-Qaeda siege of a gas facility in Algeria:
You really don’t want to be taken hostage by Islamist terrorists, but you don’t exactly want to be rescued by a Third-World army, either.
PBS’s Held Hostage looks at the January 2013 al-Qaeda siege of a gas facility in Algeria:
You really don’t want to be taken hostage by Islamist terrorists, but you don’t exactly want to be rescued by a Third-World army, either.
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During the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, the DRS, Algeria’s intelligence service, is suspected to have infiltrated and created Islamist groups to conduct massacres of civilians to discredit Islamists fighting against the government. Some suspect that the DRS may have been involved in the hostage crisis in that it was a false-flag that went wrong:
Libya, the Sahel and the ghosts of Algerian terrorism
Algeria’s Brutal DRS Intelligence Agency: The Nation’s Real Power?
Another link I forgot: The Ugly Truth About Algeria.