Exactly as predicted, the ongoing French \u201cintervention\u201d in the North African nation of Mali has spilled into Algeria \u2013 the next most likely objective of Western geopolitical interests in the region since the successful destabilization of Libya in 2011.<\/i><\/p>\n
In last week\u2019s \u201cFrance Displays Unhinged Hypocrisy as Bombs Fall on Mali<\/a>\u201d report, it was stated specifically that:<\/p>\n \u201cAs far back as August of 2011, Bruce Riedel out of the corporate-financier funded think-tank, the Brookings Institution, wrote \u201cAlgeria will be next to fall<\/a>,\u201d where he gleefully predicted success in Libya would embolden radical elements in Algeria, in particular AQIM. Between extremist violence and the prospect of French airstrikes, Riedel hoped to see the fall of the Algerian government. Ironically Riedel noted:<\/p>\n Algeria has expressed particular concern that the unrest in Libya could lead to the development of a major safe haven and sanctuary for al-Qaeda and other extremist jihadis.<\/p>\n And thanks to NATO, that is exactly what Libya has become \u2013 a Western sponsored sanctuary for Al-Qaeda<\/a>. AQIM\u2019s headway in northern Mali and now French involvement will see the conflict inevitably spill over into Algeria. It should be noted that Riedel is a co-author of \u201cWhich Path to Persia?<\/a>\u201d which openly conspires to arm yet another US State Department-listed terrorist organization (list as #28)<\/a>, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) to wreak havoc across Iran and help collapse the government there \u2013 illustrating a pattern of using clearly terroristic organizations, even those listed as so by the US State Department, to carry out US foreign policy.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, it is reported that \u201cAl Qaeda-linked\u201d terrorists have seized American hostages in Algeria in what is being described by the Western press as \u201cspill over\u201d from France\u2019s Mali operations.<\/p>\n The Washington Post, in their article, \u201cAl-Qaida-linked militants seize BP complex in Algeria, take hostages in revenge for Mali<\/a>,\u201d claims:<\/p>\n \u201cAs Algerian army helicopters clattered overhead deep in the Sahara desert, Islamist militants hunkered down for the night in a natural gas complex they had assaulted Wednesday morning, killing two people and taking dozens of foreigners hostage in what could be the first spillover from France\u2019s intervention in Mali.\u201d<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal, in its article, \u201cMilitants Grab U.S. Hostages in Algeria<\/a>,\u201d reports that:<\/p>\n \u201cMilitants with possible links to al Qaeda seized about 40 foreign hostages, including several Americans, at a natural-gas field in Algeria, posing a new level of threat to nations trying to blunt the growing influence of Islamist extremists in Africa.As security officials in the U.S. and Europe assessed options to reach the captives from distant bases, Algerian security forces failed in an attempt late Wednesday to storm the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n The WSJ also added:<\/p>\n \u201cDefense Secretary Leon Panetta said the U.S. would take \u201cnecessary and proper steps\u201d in the hostage situation, and didn\u2019t rule out military action. He said the Algeria attack could represent a spillover from Mali.\u201d<\/p>\n And it is military action, both covert and incrementally more overt, that will see the West\u2019s extremist proxies and the West\u2019s faux efforts to stem them, increasingly creep over the Mali-Algerian border, as the old imperial maps of Europe are redrawn right before our eyes.<\/p>\n