ALGERIAN TOURIST UPDATE: They’re free — and notice who turns out to have been holding them:

Islamic extremists freed 14 European tourists on Monday, six months after they were kidnapped by an al-Qaida-linked group in the Sahara Desert. . . .

Algerian authorities say the kidnappers are linked to the Salafist Group for Call and Combat, generally seen as the less bloody of two main Islamic extremist movements behind a more than decade-long insurgency in Algeria.

The Salafist group has been linked to the al-Qaida terror organization.

I hope somebody pays close attention to what else is going on in that area.