Algeria l five terrorists were arrested in the gas plant

The Algerian special forces arrested five armed Islamist group on Wednesday attacked a gas plant about 1,300 km southeast of Algiers , the hostages running, while three others fled, television channel reported Algerian Ennahar. The veteran jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar claimed responsibility on behalf of Al Qaeda, the mass kidnapping and called for France to stop airstrikes in Mali , reported Sunday news site Sahara Media quoting a video. " We at Al Qaeda announced this blessed operation . We are ready to negotiate with the West and the Algerian government always stop bombing Muslims in Mali, "the terrorist leader. Algeria expects the death toll from the attack increase , after his troops on Saturday put an end to a siege of heavily armed Islamists who took hostage hundreds of workers at a gas plant near the city of Amenas. "We had about 40 jihadists, most of them from Muslim countries and some even in the West," he said in the video Belmokhtar, according to the website. The French defense minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian , estimated Sunday that the hostage in Algeria was " an act of war ", due to the amount of people hostage. "What surprises us, you say 'hostage', but when there are so many people involved, I think it's an act of war," he told French television channel France 5 .