{"id":23294,"date":"2013-01-24T23:06:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/24\/285387\/libya-rebels-deny-arming-algeria-captors\/"},"modified":"2013-01-24T23:06:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T22:06:55","slug":"libya-rebels-deny-arming-algeria-captors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/libya-rebels-deny-arming-algeria-captors\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya rebels deny arming Algeria captors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">File photo shows rebel fighters posing near the Libyan city of Zintan.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Libya\u2019s former Zintan rebels have denied claims by an Algerian daily that they sold arms to hostage takers at a natural gas installation in eastern Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We deny the information published by the Algerian newspaper Echorouk accusing Zintan revolutionaries of having sold weapons used by terrorists,&#8221; the military council of the Libyan city of Zintan said in a statement issued on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Echorouk<\/em> reported on Wednesday that &#8220;the first interrogations of the three terrorists captured by security services have revealed that rebels in Zintan were behind the sale of the arms used against the gas plant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On January 16, a militant group known as the Signed-in-Blood Battalion launched an assault on the In Amenas facility, killing an Algerian and a Briton and taking several gas workers hostage at the complex.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe Signed-in-Blood Battalion said the hostage-taking incident was carried out in reprisal for the French-led war in Mali.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the former rebels also condemned &#8220;the terrorist attack that targeted the interests and security of the Algerian people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zintan rebels were among the first groups to enter the Libyan capital Tripoli in August 2011, seizing a large military arsenal abandoned by the troops of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n<p>Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday that 37 foreigners of eight nationalities were killed in the hostage crisis, which ended on January 19.<\/p>\n<p>TE\/MHB<\/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":"<p><span>File photo shows rebel fighters posing near the Libyan city of Zintan.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Libya&rsquo;s former Zintan rebels have denied claims by an Algerian daily that they sold arms to hostage takers at a natural gas installation in eastern Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We deny the information published by the Algerian newspaper Echorouk accusing Zintan revolutionaries of having sold weapons used by terrorists,&#8221; the military council of the Libyan city of Zintan said in a statement issued on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Echorouk<\/em> reported on Wednesday that &#8220;the first interrogations of the three terrorists captured by security services have revealed that rebels in Zintan were behind the sale of the arms used against the gas plant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On January 16, a militant group known as the Signed-in-Blood Battalion launched an assault on the In Amenas facility, killing an Algerian and a Briton and taking several gas workers hostage at the complex.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThe Signed-in-Blood Battalion said the hostage-taking incident was carried out in reprisal for the French-led war in Mali.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the former rebels also condemned &#8220;the terrorist attack that targeted the interests and security of the Algerian people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zintan rebels were among the first groups to enter the Libyan capital Tripoli in August 2011, seizing a large military arsenal abandoned by the troops of former dictator Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n<p>Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said on Monday that 37 foreigners of eight nationalities were killed in the hostage crisis, which ended on January 19.<\/p>\n<p>TE\/MHB<\/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-23294","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\/23294","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=23294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}