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Militants’ Goal in Algeria Gas Plant Siege: Giant Fireball

NYTimes.com -- The goal of the heavily armed militants who seized the desert gas plant here is becoming increasingly clear: to turn the forest of pipes and tubes into a giant bomb, and to blow up everything and anyone around. What none of them knew was exactly how, in the endless maze of metal, to do it.

Bristling with weapons, they made their demands known to the remaining employees: restart the plant, get the compressors working again and turn the power back on.

“They pushed me very hard to restart the plant,” said Lotfi Benadouda, the Algerian plant executive whom the militants singled out as the man in charge. “Their objective was to move the hostages to the plant. They wanted to get to the factory with the hostages, and explode it.”

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tomok Champion Author Portland Posts:33,095 Points:2,349,510 Joined:Aug 2006	Message Posted: Feb 4, 2013 5:13:23 AM Ignore tomok Report Abuse Militants’ Goal in Algeria Gas Plant Siege: Giant Fireball? If it can happen there, it can happen here! High security at all sensitive installations, production facilities, military bases and many other places that maybe affected with terroists activites or death squads. Also, protection of the general population from terrorists seeking to kill people in general at restaurants, malls or anywhere people may gather. These terrorists kept some alive to act as human shields or to find out how to blow the refinery up in a huge fire ball. It just shows you what kind of attitudes they have and the dominace they want over other peoples lives and actions. Kill them all and let God sort them out! Vehicle manufactures Produce and the population ‘Drives’ vehicles with high MPG, are very safe, reliable, have a ‘reasonable’ cost and a good ‘value’ for the money. The price of fuel at the pump is too high!
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