"What Though I Am Obligated to Dance a Bear" In Algeria, 32 militants calling themselves “Those Who Signed in Blood” seized control of a natural-gas refinery in the Saharan outpost of Ain Amenas, where they threatened to blow up the complex and hundreds of workers from around the world unless the Algerian government freed 100 prisoners. During the resulting four-day standoff, Algerian special forces assaulted the refinery twice, and 38 hostages and 29 militants were killed. The attackers came from Algeria, Canada, Egypt, Mali, Niger, and Tunisia, and were reportedly affiliated with the Masked Brigade, a group founded by one-eyed Algerian bandit Moktar Belmoktar, who planned the attack from northern Mali. “It seems,” said one analyst, “that Moktar has tasked himself with the internationalization of the Mali conflict.”
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"What Though I Am Obligated to Dance a Bear" In Algeria, 32 militants calling themselves “Those Who Signed in Blood” seized control of a natural-gas refinery in the Saharan outpost of Ain Amenas, where they threatened to blow up the complex and hundreds of workers from around the world unless the Algerian government freed 100 prisoners. During the resulting four-day standoff, Algerian special forces assaulted the refinery twice, and 38 hostages and 29 militants were killed. The attackers came from Algeria, Canada, Egypt, Mali, Niger, and Tunisia, and were reportedly affiliated with the Masked Brigade, a group founded by one-eyed Algerian bandit Moktar Belmoktar, who planned the attack from northern Mali. “It seems,” said one analyst, “that Moktar has tasked himself with the internationalization of the Mali conflict.”