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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
Prime Minister Cameron Remarks on Algerian Hostage Crisis: January 21, 2013
Prime Minister Cameron Remarks on Algerian Hostage Crisis: January 21, 2013
Before dawn on January 16, 2013, gunshots rang out at an Algerian gas plant, signaling the beginning of a four-day hostage crisis that eventually left sixty-nine dead. The terrorist group responsible for the attack, Signed-in-Blood Battalion, claimed they were motivated by France's recent intervention in Mali against Islamic extremists operating there. The terrorists targeted foreigners at the plant, many of whom made daring escapes with the aid of their Algerian counterparts. The intervention of the Algerian government to free the hostages drew swift criticism from other nations which believed a more precise solution would have led to a lower death toll. The Algerian government ...
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