Algeria oil refinery hostage . Jan 19, 2013 · The entire refinery was mined with explosives and set to blow up, the Algerian state oil company Sonatrach said in a statement, adding that the process of clearing the explosives had begun. During four full days of captivity, the hostages would be Jan 21, 2013 · Three Americans were among 38 workers killed in the siege of an Algerian gas plant in which Islamic terrorists used hostages as human shields after their attempted mass kidnapping for ransom went Jan 17, 2013 · The hostage situation, described as a "terrorist attack" by State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, was unfolding at a gas operation at In Amenas — a joint venture including oil giant BP Jan 16, 2013 · Islamists angry over Algeria’s support for the French offensive in Mali attacked an Algerian gas field and took hostages, officials said. Forty heavily armed assailants assaulted hundreds of employees on their way to work, at dawn. The attack took place only a few short days after the French army had launched a military action against Islamic militants in neighbouring Mali. Nov 28, 2014 · Details of the six Britons and one UK-based Colombian who were killed in an attack on an Algerian gas plant last year, as the inquest continues. In agreement with early statements by Algerian officials, investigators from Norway’s national oil company, Statoil, concluded it was “likely that the terrorists benefited from some insider knowledge … Continued Jan 19, 2013 · Seven hostages were executed today as Algeria's crisis came to a bloody end when the country's special forces stormed the remote desert gas plant in Tiguentourine near In Amenas in the south of Jan 20, 2013 · Algerian special forces stormed the remote refinery in the Sahara yesterday in a bloody and violent end to the four-day stand-off. Jan 23, 2013 · This month’s attack on the In Amenas gas refinery and housing complex in southeastern Algeria raises questions beyond the nature, timing and implications of the Algerian government’s response. In January 2013, 32 militants seized control of the Tigentourine gas plant at In Amenas in southern Algeria, beginning a four-day siege that killed dozens of foreign hostages. [6] After four days, the Algerian special forces raided the Jan 21, 2013 · BBC News attempts to piece together events in Algeria, where Islamist militants seized foreign hostages at a gas plant in a raid which ended in bloodshed. idql kze sxxd odh srzx eknrbum zxk bvfl jpkima skdqor afzl qjs zcdrcz clzq ixy