Hostage crisis's and sieges are fairly common these days in the Middle East. One prime example occurred this past weekend with an attempted siege of a gas plant in Algeria by a group of terrorists. The original plan was to blow up this gas plant and was attempted by planting mines around the holding tanks of the facility. When the terrorists took hold of the plant they also took hostages. This was apparently due to the French intervention of Islamists in Mali at the beginning of this month even though the attack was supposedly being planned for over two months. Religion always plays a major role in Middle East affairs whether it be Islamic , Christian, or Judaism. People of this area take their religion very seriously and when it is involved in serious issues many people reach out and become angered. This attack was led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a militant leader who recently fell out with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. It is not only people from this area that are affected when religious outbreaks occur. There were 37 people killed in this attack from countries such as Canada, Tunisia, Egypt, Niger, and Mali. These attacks and disputes in the Middle East are having an effect on multiple nations, religions, and ethnicities and needs to be brought to an end. The Middle East has a high volume of violence and more needs to be done to bring to to a lower level.
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