What Was Behind the Algeria Plot?

What Was Behind the Algeria Plot?

Algerian extremists are well acquainted with their government’s rigid approach to hostage situations, leading some expert observers to speculate that the In Amenas attack was a de facto suicide mission designed to achieve several objectives. The attack is believed to be the work of Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a notorious jihadist who learned his trade fighting in Afghanistan and who has said his al-Mulathameen militia staged the hostage raid — in retaliation, he claims, for France’s intervention in Mali. It is not known whether Belhmokhtar himself is at the site. But the French antiterrorism official is skeptical that the raid was conceived and executed in response to a French action that began just a week ago.

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