Algeria Hostage Crisis

Both articles Algerian Hostage Crisis Heightens As Scores Are Reported Dead by Arthur Bright and Hostages Reportedly Dead In Algerian Oil Filed Siege by Jamie Dettmer, depict an accident where the Algerian forces attempting to resolve an attack caused by a Mokhta Blemokhtar. Both Bright and Dettmer, showcase the event differently with their own styles. Bright’s interpretation is similar to a summary with quotes and focuses on the situation in general. Stating how Algerians and foreigners are being held hostage and how some of the terrorist were treating them as hostages. Dettmer restates the original story similar to Bright, but focuses on a more detail information of the event and gives a brief overview on who Mkohtar Belmokhtar is. Despite …show more content…
Each article concludes the information of the attack by stating several hostages manage to escape from the oil site, but where killed during an air strike by Algerian forces. Bright ends his articles with this attack could have been correlated with intervention in Mali but unlikely. Bright support this claim by providing a quote stated. “This type of attack had to have advanced planning. It’s not an easy target of opportunity” (Bright 7). Bright’s style is to provide the readers with condense information of the situation, but still providing the key focus of the article, similar to a summery. Similarly Dettmer ends by explaining Mokhtar Belmokhtar’s (leader of the militia attack) brigade the “Signed-in-Blood had warned the west from halting the Islamist takeover of northern Mali” or that they “will respond forcefully” (Dettmer 15). Dettmer dedicates the rest of the article on explaining the leader of this attack was Mokhtar Belmokhtar and give information about him. Dettmer’s style in the article focuses on provided readers with reports that depicted what was going and providing information of the situation, “The Algerian soldier were firing pretty indiscriminately. This wasn’t a surgical operation” (Dettmer