On January 25, 2012 at around 2:40am (EST) Al Qaeda was believed to be apart of an attack on an Algerian Oil Field. United States has reason to believe that it was a radical group that orchestrated the attack in which an oil field was partly destroyed and hostages were taken.
To the blind eye, this may seem like just another attack on one of the Middle East most valuable natural resource. However, to American Officials, if there are radical Jihadists attacking Oil Fields in Algeria, then that means there are a lot more "terrorist" groups in Northern Africa than previously predicted. It is interesting to watch this story unfold and I will stay up to date on it.
This relates to our class in many ways. Not only are we talking about the First Gulf War, but that exact war was mostly over Oil too. We also express how the media likes to only give us certain parts of stories in order to get a bigger reaction from their viewers, and that makes me think, "What is the media hiding in this story?" Now there is no way for me to find out the full story, but I think it would be interesting if we could compare what really happened in Algeria to what CNN had reported. The link to the story is below:
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/25/more-signs-al-qaeda-in-mali-orchestrated-algeria-attack/?hpt=hp_c1
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