{"id":21357,"date":"2013-01-17T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T11:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/17\/284065\/militants-demand-algeria-army-pullout\/"},"modified":"2013-01-17T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T11:20:52","slug":"militants-demand-algeria-army-pullout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/militants-demand-algeria-army-pullout\/","title":{"rendered":"Militants demand Algeria army pullout"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Militants in Algeria have demanded that the army withdraw from a gas field where they are holding a group of foreigners in order for negotiations to begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe demand the Algerian army pull out from the area to allow negotiations,\u201d said one of the kidnappers, identified as Abu al-Baraa, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia stated that the authorities \u201cwill not answer the terrorists\u2019 demands and refuse all negotiation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, militants repelled an attack by the Algerian army trying to rescue over 40 kidnapped foreigners, among them French, British and American nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place when Nigerian soldiers made an attempt to enter the gas installation in Algeria\u2019s town of In Amenas. The gas field in is jointly operated by British oil giant BP, Norway\u2019s Statoil and Algeria\u2019s Sonatrach.<\/p>\n<p>Baraa further said that Algerian snipers had opened fire at the site injuring a Japanese national.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed there were \u201caround 41\u201d hostages from several countries including Norway, France, the United States, Britain, Romania, Colombia, Thailand, Philippines, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>YH\/HSN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Militants in Algeria have demanded that the army withdraw from a gas field where they are holding a group of foreigners in order for negotiations to begin.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We demand the Algerian army pull out from the area to allow negotiations,&rdquo; said one of the kidnappers, identified as Abu al-Baraa, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Algerian Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia stated that the authorities &ldquo;will not answer the terrorists&rsquo; demands and refuse all negotiation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, militants repelled an attack by the Algerian army trying to rescue over 40 kidnapped foreigners, among them French, British and American nationals.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place when Nigerian soldiers made an attempt to enter the gas installation in Algeria&rsquo;s town of In Amenas. The gas field in is jointly operated by British oil giant BP, Norway&rsquo;s Statoil and Algeria&rsquo;s Sonatrach.<\/p>\n<p>Baraa further said that Algerian snipers had opened fire at the site injuring a Japanese national.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed there were &ldquo;around 41&rdquo; hostages from several countries including Norway, France, the United States, Britain, Romania, Colombia, Thailand, Philippines, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>YH\/HSN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}