Americans Among Hostages Seized by Islamists in Al

[Ron]

I do not look forward to January, it has usually had bad news in it such as earthquakes in Haiti, Japan.
Oh joy, more problems.


Americans Among Hostages Seized by Islamists in Algeria, State Department Says
Islamist militants seized a foreign-operated gas field in Algeria early Wednesday and took at least 20 foreign hostages, including Americans, according to an Algerian government official and the country’s state-run news agency, in what the attackers called a retaliation for the French-led military intervention in neighboring Mali.
The Algerian agency said at least at least two people had been killed.