Good evening. We have an unfolding american hostage situation overseas tonight. Seemingly out of nowhere, over just the past few days, the eyes of the world have been focused on a region in africa where the french have chosen to go to war against islamist rebels. And then in what seemed like an Immediate Reaction to the french attacks, kidnappers grabbed some Foreign Workers at a bp oil facility in the Sahara Desert in nearby algeria. We know there were american hostages along with brits and others. We know there was a Mission Launched today to free them and kill their captors. We dont truly know tonight about casualties or how Many Americans might have made it out of there alive. We begin with nbcs Stephanie Gosk on what we do know. Reporter using tanks and helicopters, the algerian military launched an operation on their own, to retake the remote gas field from the militants and free the hostages. Including at least three americans. Algeria says its over accident but details are few,
We have an unfolding american hostage situation overseas tonight. Seemingly out of nowhere, over just the past few days, the eyes of the world have been focused on a region in africa where the french have chosen to go to war against islamist rebels. And then in what seemed like an Immediate Reaction to the french attacks, kidnappers grabbed some Foreign Workers at a bp oil facility in the Sahara Desert in nearby algeria. We know there were american hostages along with brits and others. We know there was a Mission Launched today to free them and kill their captors. We dont truly know tonight about casualties or how Many Americans might have made it out of there alive. We begin with nbcs Stephanie Gosk on what we do know. Reporter using tanks and helicopters, the algerian military launched an operation on their own, to retake the remote gas field from the militants and free the hostages. Including at least three americans. Algeria says its over, but details are few, and casualty reports