Incident Date:
January 16, 2013
January 16, 2013 - January 19, 2013
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: In Amenas Algeria
Perpetrators: Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
Event Type: Hostage Taking (Kidnapping)
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Religious,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Utilities(Gas substations)
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: No
Canadian Perpetrator: Yes
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 42 fatalities
Perpetrators: 32 involved, 29 fatalities
Description: "01/16/2013: A group of 32 heavily armed Al Qaida militants, including two Canadians, attacked a gas plant in In Amenas, Algeria. After a four-day siege that started with an attack of a bus of employees headed to the airport, 40 hostages and 29 militants were killed. Ali Medlej and Xristos Katsiroubas of London, Ontario were among the attackers killed in the siege. A third Canadian, Aaron Yoon, who had travelled with Medlej and Katsiroubas to Morocco, returned to Canada after spending 18 months in a Mauritanian prison on separate terrorism-related charges. Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a former senior member of Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), claimed responsibility for the attack, which marked one of the largest terrorist attacks against the oil and gas industry. The Prime Minister also revealed that of the 32 militants previously reported killed during the operation, three had in fact been captured alive. Sellal claimed the militants included Algerian, Tunisian, Egyptian, Malian, Nigerien, and Mauritanian nationals, as well as a Canadian national he identified by the alias Chedad, whom Sellal claimed had ""co-ordinated"" the attack. On 01/16 Mauritanian news agency Agence Nouakchott d'information (ANI) reported that a spokesman had claimed responsibility for the operation in the name of Katibat al-Muqaoon bil-Dumaa (Battalion of Those Who Sign with Blood). The spokesman stated the attack was in retaliation for France's military intervention in Mali, which began on 01/11; and Algeria's 01/13 decision to grant overfly rights to French military aircraft. However, it seemed likely that at least part of the attack had been planned prior to the French intervention."
References: 1) Janes DB
2) ITAC
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