Algeria pledges to fight al Qaeda after 38 workers killed

Algeria's Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said a Canadian coordinated last week's gas plant raid. Sellal praised his country's storming of the British Petroleum complex at In Amenas in which 38 hostages were killed and promised to continue to resist the Islamists.
Three Americans, seven Japanese, six Filipinos and three Britons have been confirmed dead by their respective governments, while others from Britain, Norway and elsewhere were listed as unaccounted for. Seven of the 37 dead foreigners have not been identified, and five are still missing, Sellal said.
Three militants were captured alive.
The attack started last Wednesday when militants in three trucks unsuccessfully ambushed two buses filled with workers on their way to the airport.
Heavily armed militants dressed in army fatigues arrived in nine trucks painted in the colors of Algerian energy company Sonatrach.
Filipino survivor Joseph Balmaceda said militants used him as a human shield whenever the government attempted to use a helicopter to shoot at the militants.
Several hostages were killed Thursday when Algerian helicopters blasted jeeps in which militants were attempting to move them.