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9-11 Part II Spreads Across North and West Africa, with Extremist Jihadist Attack on Algeria
18 January 2013
(EIRNS)—The hostage-taking attack on a gas production facility in central-eastern Algeria Wednesday night by Obama’s allies, the Al-Qaeda linked elements of the same Saudi- and Qatar-supported militant salafist anti-nation state networks that overthrew Qaddafi in Libya, and are presently targeting Syria for the same treatment, ended early this evening. Algerian special forces staged a two-pronged military intervention in which an unspecified number of hostages and jihadists were killed, according to official sources. The entire terrorist assault, reportedly headed by Mokhtar Belmokhtar (real name Khaled About al-Abass), an Algerian jihadist with training in Afghanistan who is a longtime asset of the British-Saudi-Qatar terrorist networks, underscores what Lyndon LaRouche warned of at the time of the Al-Qaeda attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi: That that was only the beginning of 9/11 Part Two, which would soon spread across the planet and engulf other regions. That is what is now happening with the ongoing crisis in Algeria and Mali. All of Northern Africa is rapidly becoming involved in the mess, and there is a very real danger of British-run terrorism being activated in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and other continental European nations involved in the military operation in Mali. On Thursday, Algeria offered to permit the attackers to leave, if they would free all the hostages — but the group refused to negotiate. The first Algerian strike then occurred with helicopter gunships when the kidnappers tried to move the hostages to a more defensible position. Later, the military had to flush out the remnants of the jihadists from the production facility itself, which was more difficult, because they could not use helicopter gunships, due to the potential for setting off an explosion. The Algerian press reported that British Prime Minister Cameron was upset that he was not consulted before the Algerian raid. The White House also expressed unhappiness about the Algerian operation. Algerian Communications Minister Mohamed Said, said the jihadist attack was the work of multinational terrorists with the intention of implicating Algeria in the Mali conflict, destabilizing the Algerian state, and destroying its economy, which is dependent on hydrocarbon sales. The Wall Street Journal today quoted Adbeilhamid Si Afif, a senior member of Algeria’s ruling party, who said of Belmokhtar’s group: "They have the power to shake up the entire region." The Journal, like the Algerian press, reported that the attack was carefully planned out. Algerian accounts reported that Belmokhtar’s group included Egyptians, Tunisians, and Algerians, among others, one of whom spoke good English. They also said that his group had gone from Mali to Libya, and from there crossed into Algeria. Belmokhtar had prior documented connections with the very Al-Qaeda jihadists in Libya that Obama has allied with, and who then attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. Belmokhtar became part of the Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) network in Algeria, which had gone to northern Mali for refuge. A specialist in making money by kidnapping Europeans and releasing them for large ransoms, Belmokhtar last November was kicked out of Aqim because of differences with Aqim leadership over how the ransoms were being divided, and formed his own group, which was based in Mali. French sources and some media reports claim he was killed in the Algerian counterattack, although this has not been confirmed. [DDG/DNS] |