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Summary Executions? – Welcome to Africa
The Algerian hostage slaughter gets pushed off the news by Malian Army reprisal killings – What horrors next?
… by Jim W. Dean, VT Editor …with Press TV
Mokhtar Belmoktar
Fighting in Africa is never pretty, but often nastier than most. Ideological and media groups adopt one mass killing to spotlight, and then ignore others if they flunk their ethnicity exploitation test.
The Tuaregs who killed for Gaddafi under his military superiority (until the end) find the shoe on the other foot as the French planes bomb their bases way behind the front lines…a taste of Benghazi so to speak.
Summary executions by Islamic terrorists are so commonplace they hardly make the news unless they kill westerners, hence we had the BP gas plant attack as proof that the extreme Islamists understood this.
But what got passed over by the international media is that a many of these holy roller fighters came straight out of the regional criminal gang elements where they already had histories of exploiting their own people as extortionists.
In the Sahel smuggling, and more recently kidnapping for ransom, were among the few profitable criminal trades where people live in poverty. When holy wars start they put their holy robes on and become instant ideological fighters so they never have to pay the Hyatt hotel rates when on the road, or ever pick up a meal tab.The locals take care of them on the road.
Marrying the road house owner’s daughter is part of the game, too. This guy above has four. Father-in-law can never refuse you a hide out, and of course he gets a piece of the action.
The leader of the Algerian attack was a long time kidnapper, his major source of finance. I have yet to find any mention on the Left for any pity for his victims, nothing new there…see above.
Below is a Press TV short interview. The topic was primarily on the Algerian attack and then the French ‘invasion’ of Mali…which surprised me a bit, as there was no mention of the West Africans. But in fairness Press TV did highlight my point of these desert guerrillas pulling this attack to set the stage for financially getting regular payoffs from big business to leave their installations alone.
Can anyone remember how we paid truck transit fees in Afghanistan to not attack supply convoys. I think it was $2000 a truck, and we paid, the taxpayers I mean? It never became a scandal.
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– Algerian hostages – Mali Intervention
The reporting on this Mali intervention has been spotty. Has anyone seen footage of any spokesmen from the current government or whoever is approving anything? And we heard quickly by the French that there would be a media lock out…no embeds.
The reports of reprisal killings by the formerly humiliated Malian army are no surprise, but we have are no photos, which may have been the goal of the French media ban.
Ethnic rivalries in Africa have run rivers of blood. In most places the women suffer horribly.
The average African woman can expect to be raped three times in her lifetime. It goes with the territory, but media rarely reports this very nasty side of their many conflicts. They think it makes Africa look bad, so they self censor, and then get instant amnesia.
The West African troops are getting to Mali in slow motion. One would thing they have been walking. The media seems to be ignoring them like they don’t even exist but it is they who will be providing the local security when the country is stable enough to run an election.
In fact, it’s hard to even find any mention of there being an election at the end of this for a new Malian government. It troubles me to see how dismissive that media ideologues can be of any elements of a story that do not fit their ‘goal’…is the best word I can think to describe it.
We shall soon be hearing reports from witnesses from the recaptured towns as to what life was like under the bearded ones.
There will be more murdered bodies to be found along the roads of Mali. Fingers will be pointed at selected targets, and everybody will blame their favorite whipping boy and give passes to those they are routing for.
I do not hold myself out to be a judge of the strategy of clearing the Sahel out from radical Islamists and keeping them out. This can only trigger mistreatment of those left behind in the villages as the intervention troops move forward. Cruel treatment of them with just birth new radicals when the children come of age, or maybe sooner.
If the situation remains just as bad when this is all over, but a new kind of bad, then I will say, ‘Welcome to Africa.’
Here is a good Reuters rundown on the Mali developments
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On the satellite view of the site there is a security camp between the worker’s camp and the plant itself, which are over 3 clicks apart. So who was the security and what was it doing? Plus there are wadi beds/ravines all around which could have been used by special forces to get close and intercept the trucks as they moved from one camp to the plant on the second day, or snipers could have sat off at a click plus and shot from there. The whole thing seems to have been a shambles from start to finish.
Something rotten in Algeria.
Goes along with Afghanistan, Iraq,Syria, etc……Sandy Hook?
Good relevant points you raised in the Press TV interview, Jim.
You rightly pointed out that “the attack on the Tiguentourine Gas facility had been prepared 2 months before the French Intervention in Mali”.
The Gas complex is not a BP alone operation. Its a joint venture between the Algerian SONATRACH, the Norwegian STATOIL and BP.
SottNet run an article (01-22nd-203) under the Title: “Blonde haired, blue-eyed American and Canadian ‘terrorists’ led international ‘al Qaeda’ brigade in siege on BP gas plant in Algeria, while ‘English-speaking Islamic militants of European appearance’ roam Mali”, originally published by the U.k. based “The Independent” under the title: “Terror in North Africa: are Westerners pulling the strings?”.
According to that article; Quote:
1) “Concern at the international composition of the Algerian kidnap brigade will be compounded by reports from residents in Diabaly, Mali, that Islamists who overran the town last week contained English-speakers and militants of European appearance. Speaking to The Independent yesterday after French and Malian forces had retaken the town, student Amadu Dumbia said: “I definitely heard them and there’s no chance that I made a mistake with another language. They spoke like they were from England, but had darker skins.”
2) Prime Minister David Cameron today told the Commons that the West faced a “generational struggle” in combating the “poisonous ideology” of Islamic extremists in the Sahel. Mr Cameron said that Britain would join the manhunt for Belmokhtar and promised extra support for the French campaign in Mali. Echoing the language used by Tony Blair in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre, he said: “This is the work our generation faces and we must demonstrate the same resolve and sense of purpose as previous generations have with the challenges that they faced in this House and in this country.”
3) One of the hostage takers was a North American who took part in the killing of numerous Japanese workers, the AFP agency reported. An Algerian employee of a Japanese engineering firm working at the site, identified as Riad said the Islamist attackers shot three Japanese who were in a bus, then went straight to the rooms occupied by the Japanese.
“One terrorist shouted ‘Open the door’ with a North American accent, then fired,” he told AFP. “Two other Japanese died and we found four other Japanese bodies inside the base.”
One of the kidnappers was tall, blond with blue or green eyes and spoke English, an Algerian military source told the Norwegian daily Aftenposten. Norway’s Statoil energy company was one of the two foreign firms operating at the gas complex.” Unquote.
This brings the false flag of Mumbai as stated by the same Sott Net:
++Mumbai “terrorists”: “Foreign looking, fair skinned” men had blonde hair, punkish hairstyle, drank beer before killing spree++
Any complementary info to infirm or confirm above stated allegations?
and the bigger picture a race to resources …. on the ground from Africa and France http://iamthewitness.com/audio/Cii/TFC.SMITH.13cii.mp3
Ditto the IRA Jim……the dogs bark and the caravans move on.
His image is a screeshot from the video he made taking credit for the Algerian gas attack. What he was doing to western business interest was advertising that he was the man to pay off if they did not want to have attacks on their facilities.
Folks might find this hard to grasp but they like at themselves as Somali pirates in a sea of sand and these out in the boonies facilities they view as ships at sea to be hijacked and/or blown up. And pirating has shown the bix folks prefer to pay off.
Absolutely….but never admit to it. Lebanon. Terry Anderson and the Brits.
How high do security clearances go, to what level Jim? Likely higher then you may believe.
One of your writers received disclosure information several days ago, something that maybe disturbing to many. For specific reasons such was finally explained, I will leave it to them for distribution.
Something many should have known, but were to busy “not thinking” about why?
You should have asked the correct questions, and disclosure does not mean governments. Good Bye VT.
If we had the year 2213 the Weinstein Brothers would finance a Quentin Tarantino movie showing peaceful terrorists fighting against Auschwitz.