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Algeria state news agency: Army storms gas plant; 7 hostages, 11 militants are dead
Algeria’s special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert in a final assault Saturday, killing 11 militants, but not before they in turn killed seven hostages, the state news agency reported.

The report, quoting a security source, didn’t specify if any hostages or militants remained alive or give the nationalities of the dead.
Posted by: tipper 2013-01-19
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