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2015-11-20 Africa North

Gunmen take 170 hostages in Radisson Blu hotel in Mali capital

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-11-20 06:01|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Bammy will rush a crack (smoking?) State Department negotiating team to the Maldives...

Posted by M. Murcek 2015-11-20 08:29|| 2015-11-20 08:29|| Front Page Top

#2 not those militant Amish again

whatever are we to do about their extremism

clearly the US is to blame for invading iraq....

Posted by anon1 2015-11-20 08:56|| 2015-11-20 08:56|| Front Page Top

#3 they did NOT shout *god is great*, either

they shouted *allahu akhbar*

allah cannot be translated simply as *god* because allah is god of the muslims only

Posted by anon1 2015-11-20 08:57|| 2015-11-20 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 CNN has updates. As of 8:32 a.m. ET French gendermerie and American Special Forces had arrived to support Malian forces, 80 people had been released and 3 were dead.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-11-20 09:25|| 2015-11-20 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 but Islam has nothing to do with Terrorism

Posted by Frank G 2015-11-20 12:00|| 2015-11-20 12:00|| Front Page Top

#6 When you want the very best,
France on Friday afternoon said it dispatched to Mali an elite paramilitary group trained in hostage rescue and counterterrorism operations.

U.S. special operations forces also are helping "move civilians to secured locations as Malian forces clear the hotel of hostile gunmen," said Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Falvo, a spokesman for U.S. Africa Command.

because the Mali Special Forces aren't...special.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-11-20 12:00|| 2015-11-20 12:00|| Front Page Top

#7 ...neither was Saddam's 'elite' republican guard elite. At least in the military sense, but probably of the politically reliable, much like our own ruling caste 'elites'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-20 12:41|| 2015-11-20 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 How much longer before this is run in a blue city in the US with extreme gun control laws?

Posted by DarthVader 2015-11-20 12:43|| 2015-11-20 12:43|| Front Page Top

#9 I'll lay odds that it'll happen before the end of next year.

Posted by Pappy 2015-11-20 16:18|| 2015-11-20 16:18|| Front Page Top

#10 SHOCKING SECURITY BLUNDER: Obama Admin Tells Mali Hotel Terrorists Americans Likely in Hotel

morons

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2015-11-20 17:31|| 2015-11-20 17:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Jeez, Louise. It really is hard to tell stupidity from malice.

Posted by SteveS 2015-11-20 17:56|| 2015-11-20 17:56|| Front Page Top

#12 No reason it can't be both Steve.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-11-20 17:59|| 2015-11-20 17:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Isn't Mali kind of a French friend or old protectorate? Could be a continuing attack against all things French.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-11-20 19:18|| 2015-11-20 19:18|| Front Page Top

#14 Isn't Mali kind of a French friend or old protectorate?

Yes. And French troops have been active for the past year or two driving Al Qaeda-linked jihadis and other troublemakers from Mali's northern cities.

However, Al Ahram reports the jihadis were speaking to one another in English rather than French, which is the official language of Mali, or one of the many other recognized or unrecognized languages of the country.

Posted by trailing wife 2015-11-20 20:36|| 2015-11-20 20:36|| Front Page Top

#15 I'll lay odds that it'll happen before the end of ~~next~~ this year.
Pappy, your much more optimistic than I...

Posted by 49 Pan 2015-11-20 22:21|| 2015-11-20 22:21|| Front Page Top

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