  The crisis in Mali and Algeria  Jihad in the Sahara  No sooner
had France set about stopping jihadists from taking over Mali,
than their sympathisers in Algeria perpetrated another outrage
to display their regional reach  See article  Readers' comments
Dr Lou  While a substantial tragedy, Statoil seems a bit either
naive or disingenuous to claim it as 'unimaginable...' I'd also
be curious to know more about Statoil's in-house security teams
and systems; did they fail or were they not in place based on
Statoil's attempt to operate that part of its facility on the
cheap?  The international community will at some point recognize
that these so identified Islamist organizations will not be
appeased and will not stop to 'negotiate.' Theirs is a skewed
ideological commitment to which most everything done is
subservient. It is, largely, how they rationalize actions from
remarkable brutality and murder to drug and gun running;
behavior otherwise seen by an alternative majority, to include a
huge proportion of Musl