Thread: 170 Taken Hostage in Mali

Mali hotel attack: '170 hostages seized' in Bamako - BBC News

Gunmen have launched an attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in the centre of Mali's capital, Bamako.

Two people have locked in 140 guests and 30 employees in "a hostage-taking situation", the hotel's owners said in a statement.

Police have surrounded the hotel, which the gunmen entered shooting, and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic, a security source told Reuters.

The US-owned hotel is popular with expats working in Mali.

A Chinese guest told China's state news agency Xinhua via a mobile app that he was among a number of Chinese citizens trapped there.

The security source has told Reuters that some hostages, including those able to recite verses of the Koran, are being freed.

So is this meant to be another French beating? We shall see.

Former French colony so probably.

Just the beginning worldwide.

Already set in motion.

.
.
.

Mali attack: Special forces storm hotel to free hostages
6 minutes ago

Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, to end a siege by gunmen who had been holding 170 people hostage.

The gunmen stormed the US-owned hotel, which is popular with foreign businesses and airline crews, shooting and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic.

Malian state TV is reporting that 80 people have now been freed.

At least three people are reported to have been killed in the siege that started around 07:00 GMT.

Mali attack: Special forces storm hotel to free hostages - BBC News

They wanted LIMA sadly learned English at McDos from smaug

BBC says it was American special forces, can't see the locals being up to much

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

BBC says it was American special forces

Originally Posted by Norton

shooting and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic.

cool.

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

BBC says it was American special forces

Originally Posted by Norton

shooting and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic.

cool.

Conversion is fabulous, innit!!?

Another sad ending.

Mali attack: 21 dead after terrorist raid on Bamako hotel | World news | The Guardian

Well they have managed to piss off Russia, France and China in the past fortnight.
This can only end well.

R.I.P. to all the victims.

And now the Belgians who were so accommodating towards them.

All religions are a world curse and the root of all evil.

Ban all gods and they can't be great.

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by Dragonfly94

BBC says it was American special forces

Originally Posted by Norton

shooting and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic.

cool.

God is indeed Great. #SamBurgess

Originally Posted by Loy Toy

All religions are a world curse and the root of all evil.

Ban all gods and they can't be great.

Deep imbedded conditioning is extremely difficult [if not impossible] to subdue regarding the masses. Some other zealous stage would certainly replace the gods by the controllers - political or social philosophical differences, etc....

It's not the invented entity that might be troubling, but the confounded species [collectively] that requires such manufactured entities.