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Originally Posted by gnadfly
OK. All the hostages that didn't escape are dead. All the dead hostages are now freed.
Point being, hostages held this last day or so by the terrorists - from what I've read - where all killed.
The Algerian "rescue" mission wasn't.
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So, your point is that the Algerian's mismanaged the crisis, or its forces were not up to the task, and US specialists should have run the show?
On what evidence?
I get my information from
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...d-missing.html
and
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ct-of-war.html
There is a comment on the former, which may ring a bell with some here:
"Don't bloody politicians make you sick?
We now have the childish spectacle of Cameron and Hague indulging in fits of pique and throwing their toys around because they wanted to send in the SAS, so they could be seen as heroes and garner a few more votes.
And they are making snide remarks about the Algerian military, while at the same time admitting they have no idea what the circumstances were at In Amenas. Nothing like a bit of good old-fashioned hypocrisy, eh chaps?
In fairness though, neither Cameron nor Hague is yet showing the war criminal "qualities" of Blair.
Miliband Minor would probably have sent in the Belligerent Balls and his even more frightening missus to sort them out.
Clogg would have hidden under his duvet, and Nigel (call me Farraaajjje) would have squawked and flapped the terrorists into submission.
Let's get this into perspective. The SAS has been around for about 70 years and they've done some excellent work, especially in desert operations.
The Algerians, on the other hand, have been fighting in the desert for millennia.
The results aren't in yet: for all we know the Algerians may well have done a good job.
But will our griping bloody politicians eat their words?
Dream on: they'll just get their spin doctors to trot out even more riveting bolleaux, for consumption by us, the downtrodden plebs.
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