16/09/2014
Disgruntled worker threatened bloodshed at Algerian gas plant
A disgruntled Algerian worker at a north African gas plant where seven British hostages were killed during a four-day siege had apparently threatened management with ?bloodshed? the night before the attack, an inquest heard. Months before the attack there had been a series of labour disputes with local workers at the In Amenas site, located deep in the Algerian desert, jointly run by BP, the Norwegian state oil company Statoil and the Algerian government-owned Sonatrach. Jihadists led by the al-Qaeda linked terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar stormed the facility in January 2013. Six Britons and a UK-based Colombian were among 40 hostages killed during a four-day stand-off. Giving evidence at the...
