This hostage situation in Algeria

davek · January 18, 2013

...what's going on here? Clear as mud, atm. The number of Britons involved going up and down with each news report. And why, after the siege ended about 20 hours ago, dont we know who (or how many) the casualties are?

I understand they may need time to identify people and contact relatives etc, but it seems very weird in this day and age when news comes through so quickly.

Hopefully it's not the massacre being touted.

Foot Long Hot Dog · January 18, 2013

The news filter would suggest that it's not ended well.

EFCNIK · January 18, 2013

*sigh*

Peaceful religion.

Thoughts go out to the hostages and their families. Must be awful.

Mutzo Nutzo · January 18, 2013

Total cake and arse party by the sounds of it.

BlueLlama · January 18, 2013

Appallingly handled it seems. No idea why people choose to go and work in places like this though.

noharmdone · January 18, 2013

BlueLlama said:
Appallingly handled it seems. No idea why people choose to go and work in places like this though.

Big bucks. Mate of mine does body guarding in Iraq.. Knows the risks, makes more in a month over there, than in a year here.

davek · January 18, 2013

It sounds now like there's a lot less casualties than first predicted. The delay in news from the site is probably down to the British Government getting their story straight as to why they predicted a greater incident.

As a rider to this story it should be noted Cameron cancelled a speech in Amsterdam on EU reform. The implication is that fat chops used the siege to duck that meeting.

carlos21 · January 18, 2013

davek said:
It sounds now like there's a lot less casualties than first predicted. The delay in news from the site is probably down to the British Government getting their story straight as to why they predicted a greater incident.

As a rider to this story it should be noted Cameron cancelled a speech in Amsterdam on EU reform. The implication is that fat chops used the siege to duck that meeting.

country is on it backside.

EFCNIK · January 18, 2013

Yeah man, Cameron orchastrated the seige to get out of the meeting, and also to screw over the city of Liverpool somehow aswell.

BlueLlama · January 18, 2013

noharmdone said:
Big bucks. Mate of mine does body guarding in Iraq.. Knows the risks, makes more in a month over there, than in a year here.

I know they are paid loads but they for me the risk outweighs the reward.

carlos21 · January 18, 2013

EFCNIK said:
Yeah man, Cameron orchastrated the seige to get out of the meeting, and also to screw over the city of Liverpool somehow aswell.

i agree there nik.

bignev23 · January 18, 2013

BlueLlama said:
Appallingly handled it seems. No idea why people choose to go and work in places like this though.

Loads of Â£Â£Â£Â£Â£ is probably the reason they work there. They should know the risks involved before they go.Its not really suprising that these things happen in unstable countries with the huge amounts of cash at stake to whoever controlls the oil supplies.