Algeria Launches ‘Final Assault’: 7 Hostages Dead

- Algeria launches ‘final assault’; 7 hostages dead (USA Today, Jan 19, 2013): AIN AMENAS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s special forces stormed a natural gas complex in the middle of the Sahara desert in a final assault Saturday, killing 11 militants, but not before they in turn killed seven hostages, the state news agency reported. [...] continue reading the breaking news