Algerian crisis: 'Battalion of Blood' gang offers to SWAP two U.S. hostages for two terrorists jailed in America | Mail Online: Kidnappers want US to free Omar Abdel Rahman and Aafia Siddiqui who are both in American prisons. Algeria's news service says nearly 100 of 132 foreign hostages have now been freed. The fate of the other hostages is unclear. An American from Texas is among those feared dead after a bloody raid by the Algerian military on Thursday. Fierce gun battles erupted as troops moved in on the Islamists at a BP site in Algeria. Source said 30 hostages were killed in the botched raid. The Obama administration was not aware of the heavily armed rescue mission ahead of time. Algerian officials said 18 militants have been killed but there were estimated to be 70 in total. Captors were reportedly threatening this morning to attack other energy installations.
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