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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday the U.S. "will take all necessary and proper steps" to deal with an Islamist attack on a natural gas field in southern Algeria that has resulted in Americans and other foreigners taken hostage.

Panetta would not detail what such steps might be, but he condemned the incident as "terrorist attack" and likened it to al-Qaida activities in Pakistan, Afghanistan and in the United States on 9/11.

A militant group that claimed responsibility says it's holding seven Americans, but State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said she wouldn't provide details to protect those who were kidnapped. Panetta said he didn't know the numbers of those kidnapped.

Militants said they attacked and occupied the field partly operated by the energy company BP because of Algeria's support of France's operation against al-Qaida-linked Malian rebels groups to the southeast.

"It is a very serious matter when Americans are taken hostage along with others," Panetta told reporters in Rome, where he spent the day meeting with Italian leaders, in part to discuss the operations in Mali. "I want to assure the American people that the United States will take all necessary and proper steps that are required to deal with this situation."

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Prayers for their safe return.

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Proper steps? That sounds wimpy.

 

Yes, it does. But look who's in the WH.

Proper steps? That sounds wimpy.

 

Yes, it does. But look who's in the WH.

Proper steps? That sounds wimpy.

 

Yes, it does. But look who's in the WH.

 

 

 

White House condemns Algerian hostage-taking

 

WASHINGTON — The White House is condemning the taking of dozens of hostages, including several Americans, from an oil plant in Algeria by militants linked to rebel Islamists in Mali.

 

Militants claim that 35 hostages were killed Thursday, after Algerian military helicopters strafed the area during an attempt to free those being held. They say seven hostages survived.

 

White House press secretary Jay Carney won't confirm the status of the Americans or whether the U.S. offered to help the Algerian government with its raid on the energy complex.

 

Carney says the administration is monitoring the situation closely, is concerned about reports of killings and is in contact with the Algerian government.

 

 

I mean BOLD...FORWARD LEANING...This will have them quaking in their boots!

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WSJ: Algeria Hostages' Fate Uncertain

GABRIELE PARUSSINI And CASSELL BRYAN-LOW

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The Algerian army attempted to take control of the gas field where suspected Islamic militants are holding foreign hostages, the site's operator BP BP.LN +0.57% PLC said Thursday, amid unconfirmed news reports that there had been casualties in the operation.

 

British Prime Minister David Cameron only found out about the military operation after it was under way, a spokesman for Mr. Cameron said Thursday afternoon.

 

Several news agencies reported that some hostages and hostage-takers had been killed by air strikes by the Algerian army at the In Amenas natural-gas field.

 

(Snip)

 

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Algerian forces launch operation to break desert siege

Lamine Chikhi

 

ALGIERS | Thu Jan 17, 2013 1:39pm EST

 

(Reuters) - Twenty-five foreign hostages escaped and six were killed on Thursday when Algerian forces launched an operation to free them at a remote desert gas plant, Algerian sources said, as one of the biggest international hostage crises in decades unfolded.

 

 

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H/T Gateway Pundit

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