The Families of Algerian Hostages Want Answers to a Terrorist Mystery
Many questions still remain about the disastrous Algerian hostage situation, including the biggest question of all: How did all those people die?
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Members of the Chadian military reportedly shot and killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the terrorist connected with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb who claimed responsibility for the Algerian hostage crisis, during a raid on Saturday. Don't get excited just yet, though: he's been dead before.
Many questions still remain about the disastrous Algerian hostage situation, including the biggest question of all: How did all those people die?
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It's the day after the Algerian hostage situation ended, and cleanup crews are still searching for anything that could help them piece together what exactly happened inside the gas facility that was occupied by Al Queda-linked terrorists for four days. What they're finding inside: more bodies.
After one final assault from the Algerian military, the standoff with militant Islamic attackers at a gas plant is finally over. The military moved in to end the conflict after the hostage takers set part of the facility on fire -- and the whole place was rigged to explode.
The AP has now identified the dead American hostage, by way of unnamed U.S. officials, as Frederick Buttaccio of Katy, Texas, a Houston suburb. It was unclear how he died, though his body has been recovered and his family notified.
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