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The top U.N. envoy to Libya said in late 2011 that some weapons depots in Libya had still not been secured properly, and that much had "already gone missing." An open crate at the same facility reveals a rocket inside. (Associated Press)

Smuggled Libyan arms disrupting North Africa

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

**FILE** In this image taken from an Algerian TV broadcast on Jan. 20, 2013, the aftermath of a hostage crisis at the remote Ain Amenas gas facility in Algeria is seen. Algerian special forces stormed the plant to end the four-day siege, moving in to thwart what government officials said was a plot by the Islamic extremists to blow up the complex and kill all their captives with mines sown throughout the site. (Associated Press/Algerie TV via Associated Press TV)

State Dept. warns against travel to Algeria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Algerian foreign minister Mourad Medelci speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Algeria admits mistakes in standoff

By Martin Benedyk - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

EDITORIAL: Strike versus stumble

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

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Gas plant siege in Sahara was highly organized

By Aomar Ouali and Karim Kabir - Associated Press

** FILE ** Aafia Siddiqui is seen in the custody of the Counter Terrorism Department of Ghazni province in Ghazni City, Afghanistan, on July 17, 2008. The U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist was convicted by a jury on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, of charges she tried to kill Americans while she was detained in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/File)

3 Americans die in Algeria attack; 7 survive

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

Algerian firemen carry a coffin containing a person killed during the gas-facility hostage situation at the morgue in Ain Amenas, Algeria, on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Anis Belghoul)

2 Canadian militants involved in Algerian siege

By Aomar Ouali and Karim Kabir - Associated Press

** FILE ** A group of people believed to be hostages kneel in the sand with their hands in the air at an unknown location in Algeria in this image made from video. Algerian demining teams were scouring a gas refinery on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, that was the scene of a bloody four-day standoff, searching for explosive traps left by the Islamist militants who took dozens of foreigners hostage. (AP Photo/Ennahar TV)

U.S. on Algeria: We knew ‘something big’ was coming

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Rescue vehicles swarm the gas plant where al Qaeda-linked terrorists held hundreds of people hostage. An Algerian military assault Saturday ended with the deaths of at least 23 hostages, including an American, and 32 heavily armed kidnappers. (Associated Press)

Death toll from Algeria standoff expected to rise

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Men look at the wreckage of a vehicle near the natural-gas plant in Ain Amenas, Algeria, in this undated photo. Algerian bomb squads on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, scoured the plant, where Islamist militants took dozens of foreign workers hostage, and found "numerous" new bodies as they searched for explosive traps left behind by the attackers, a security official said, a day after a bloody raid ended the four-day siege of the remote desert refinery. (AP Photo/Echorouk Elyaoumi)

Algeria crisis ends with one American dead, fate of others unknown

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Islamist militants raided the Amenas natural gas field in Algeria on Wednesday, killing two and taking hostages, including some Americans and English, Norwegian and Japanese nationals. Algerian forces later caught up with and surrounded the kidnappers. Negotiations for the release of the hostages were ongoing, officials said. (BP via Associated Press)

State Dept.: 1 American dead in Algerian standoff

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

Statoil CEO Helge Lund reacts Jan. 17, 2013, during a press conference in Bergen, Norway, at the center for relatives to the hostages in Algeria, which has been established near the airport. Algerian forces launched a military assault at a natural gas plant in the Sahara Desert, trying to free dozens of foreign hostages held by militants who have ties to Mali's rebel Islamists, diplomats and an Algerian security official said. (Associated Press/Hakon Mosvold Larsen/NTB Scanpix)

Nations fume, quietly, over Algerian hostage raid

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Panetta: U.S.-British working to free hostages

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

**FILE** This Ain Amenas gas field in Algeria, seen here in April 19, 2005, is where Islamist militants raided and took hostages on Jan. 16, 2013. (Associated Press/Kjetil Alsvik, Statoil via NTB scanpix)

World scrambles to learn fate of U.S. hostages in Algeria

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

**FILE** This Ain Amenas gas field in Algeria, seen here in April 19, 2005, is where Islamist militants raided and took hostages on Jan. 16, 2013. (Associated Press/Kjetil Alsvik, Statoil via NTB scanpix)

Algeria: 12 hostages have died in the siege

By Anis Belghoul and Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Statoil's chief executive officer, Helge Lund, arrives at the center in Bergen, Norway, set up for relatives of the hostages in Algeria. Algerian troops and helicopter gunships stormed the gas facility where Islamic extremists were holding foreign hostages on Thursday. (Associated Press)

Bloodshed  in Algeria  shows reach of terrorists

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Islamist militants raided the Amenas natural gas field in Algeria on Wednesday, killing two and taking hostages, including some Americans and English, Norwegian and Japanese nationals. Algerian forces later caught up with and surrounded the kidnappers. Negotiations for the release of the hostages were ongoing, officials said. (BP via Associated Press)

Militant: 35 hostages die in Algeria raid, 7 live

By Aomar Quali and Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Claims of responsibility for an attack on an Algerian natural-gas field in January are tied to a group led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who had been a regional commander in northwestern Africa for al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. (IntelCenter)

Americans  among 40  seized by  terrorists  in Algeria

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Islamist militants raided and took hostages at the Amenas natural gas field in the eastern central region of Algeria on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/BP)

Al-Qaeda-linked militants say they are holding 7 Americans

By Aomar Ouali and Paul Schemm - Associated Press