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Freed hostages from Algeria crisis Survivors of one of the largest hostage crises in recent memory recounted their ordeal, which began Wednesday when Islamist militants took over a natural gas facility in Algeria and ended Saturday with a final assault by the Algerian military.
Jan. 23, 2013
Overseas Filipino workers Crisostomo Carabio, center, and Ramon Tertosa, center right, who were at the remote desert natural gas complex in Algeria when it was attacked by Islamist militants, arrive at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila. Carabio and Tertosa, along with two other Filipino employees who worked for Japanese plant-construction company JGC in Algeria, arrived in the city Wednesday. Six Filipino workers were among the 37 hostages killed in the attack.
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Jan. 22, 2013
Mitsunobu Fuchida, the brother of Rokuro Fuchida, who, according to JGC, was reported to have been killed during the hostage crisis at a gas plant in Algeria, cries during an interview in Kimotsuki, Japan.
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Jan. 22, 2013
Mike Lovelady, left, sits with his niece Erin Lovelady as she wipes her tears and talks about her father, Victor Lovelady, in Nederland, Tex. Victor Lovelady died in the standoff at the gas field in Algeria. U.S. officials identified him on Monday as the second Texan to have died in the crisis.
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Jan. 22, 2013
Takeshi Endo, public-relations manager of Japanese plant-construction company JGC, arrives to make an announcement regarding death of staff members in the Algerian hostage crisis during a press conference at the JGC headquarters in Yokohama, Japan. The Japanese government said seven citizens were killed in the hostage crisis, the first confirmation from Tokyo that any of its nationals had died.
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Jan. 21, 2013
An unidentified person right, is followed by Algerian officials as they enter a morgue in In Amenas, Algeria, containing the bodies of the people killed during the hostage situation at the gas plant. At least 81 people have been reported dead, including 32 Islamist militants, after a bloody, four-day hostage situation.
Anis Belghoul
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Jan. 21, 2013
Veteran jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar speaks in this undated still image taken from a video released by Sahara Media on Jan. 21, 2013. Belmokhtar has claimed responsibility in the name of al-Qaeda for the Algerian hostage taking, and his Mulathameen Brigade warned it would carry out further attacks on foreign interests unless the fighting in Mali stopped, according to Mauritanian news Web site Sahara Media.
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Jan. 21, 2013
Filipino Joseph Balmaceda, center, who survived a hostage crisis at a gas plant in Algeria, is assisted by relatives after speaking to journalists in Manila. Six Filipino workers were among those killed in a siege by Islamic militants on a gas plant in Algeria, while four were still missing, the Philippine government said.
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Jan. 21, 2013
Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing a person killed during the gas facility assault at the morgue in In Amenas, Algeria. At least 81 people have been reported dead, including 32 Islamist militants, after a bloody, four-day hostage situation at Algeria's remote In Amenas natural gas plant.
Anis Belghoul
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This recent but undated photo made available Jan. 21 shows weapons and equipment arranged to show the media how Islamic militants were armed. The militants were wearing Algerian army uniforms and were equipped with explosives to blow up the plant, according to Algeria’s Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal.
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This recent but undated photo made available Jan. 21 shows the damaged natural gas plant after Islamist militants attacked it and took hostages at In Amenas, Algeria.
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In this undated photo, men look at the wreckage of a vehicle near In Amenas, Algeria. Algerian bomb squads scouring a gas plant where Islamist militants took dozens of foreign workers hostage found "numerous" new bodies on Jan. 20, 2013, as they searched for explosive traps left behind by the attackers, a security official said, a day after a bloody raid ended the four-day siege of the remote desert refinery.
Echorouk Elyaoumi
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Jan. 19, 2013
Peter, left, and Alan, right, (the two Britons did not provide their surnames) walk in a street of In Amenas, near the natural gas plant where they had been held captive by Islamic militants. Algerian special forces on Saturday stormed the complex in the middle of the Sahara desert, killing 11 militants but not before they in turn killed seven hostages, the state news agency reported.
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Jan. 16, 2013
Hostages are seen with their hands in the air at the In Amenas gas facility. Islamist militants seized the plant on Jan. 16. Many of the hostages were freed by raids carried out by the Algerian military.
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Jan. 18, 2013
Rescued hostages hug each other in In Amenas, Algeria, in this image taken from television. Algeria’s state news service says the military has freed virtually all of the 573 Algerian hostages and nearly 100 out of 132 foreign hostages from a gas plant where Islamist militants had held them captive.
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Jan. 18, 2013
Unidentified rescued hostages pose for the media in In Amenas, Algeria, in this image taken from television. Algeria’s interior minister, Daho Ould Kablia, said on state television Saturday evening that the rescue operation was complete and had resulted in the deaths of 32 terrorists and at least 23 foreigners.
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The gas facility near In Amenas in Algeria is seen in this Sept. 10, 2012, satellite image. According to British Prime FMinister David Cameron, the militants began their assault on the complex at dawn Wednesday with an attack on transit buses. The militants then fanned out, seizing a residential compound and a gas pumping facility, taking hostages as they went.
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Jan. 18, 2013
An ambulance enters the In Amenas hospital near the gas plant where hostages have been kidnapped by Islamic militants.
Anis Belghoul
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Jan. 18, 2013
Algerian Minister of Energy and Mines Youcef Yousfi speaks with an injured former hostage from the Philippines at the Algiers al Azhar clinic in Algiers in this photo provided by the Algerian Press Service.
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Jan. 18, 2013
An unidentified rescued hostage receives treatment in a hospital in In Amenas, Algeria, in this image taken from television. Some workers described being forced to strap on explosives-filled belts.
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Jan. 18, 2013
Algerian Minister of Energy and Mines Youcef Yousfi, center, speaks with a former hostage from the Philippines at the Algiers al Azhar clinic in Algiers.
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Jan. 18, 2013
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks about the situation in Algeria at the State Department. She called the militant attack "an act of terror," saying that she had spoken with Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal and emphasized that "the utmost care must be taken to preserve innocent life."
Susan Walsh
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Jan. 18, 2013
Algerians arrive at Algiers Airport after they were released from a gas facility in Algeria by Islamist hostage-takers.
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Jan. 18, 2013
A freed hostage speaks in this image taken from video.
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A 2005 photo shows the gas facility near In Amenas in Algeria, where Islamist militants raided and took hostages Wednesday.
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Jan. 17, 2013
A man reads a newspaper headlined "Terrorist attack and kidnapping in In Amenas" at a newsstand in Algiers. Algerian forces raided a remote Sahara gas plant on Thursday in an attempt to free scores of foreign hostages held by militants with ties to Mali’s rebel Islamists, diplomats and an Algerian security official said.
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