All of this adds to the endless charm of their scampering and marching and delicately calibrated choreography, which threads the young dancers through the production as lively captives and, eventually, as members of the narrative's intricate and marvelously arranged climax.
The French gas group GDF Suez identified the captives as an employee working in the Cameroon capital of Yaounde and his family.
At noon local time on Thursday, Algerian forces attacked as the militants tried to move some of their captives from the facility.
The captives were named as Philippe Verdon and Serge Lazarevic, in documents seen by AFP.
This was seen by critics as a wink at the torture of captives for information.
American soldiers were court-martialled for waterboarding captives as recently as the Vietnam War.
The Algerian armed forces attacked on Thursday as militants tried to move some of their captives from the facility.
The Algerian armed forces staged an initial attack on Thursday as militants tried to move some of their captives from the facility.
But this outburst of fury apparently stemmed from rumours circulating through the mob that the captives belonged to the feared and hated undercover units of the Israeli army which dress as Arabs and strike in the heart of Palestinian towns.
Stephen McFaul, a hostage who survived the attack, was quoted by his brother as saying captives had been put on five four-wheel-drive vehicles, bound, gagged, and with explosives fastened to their necks.
At least 48 hostages are now thought to have died in a four-day siege at an Algerian gas plant, as reports say that 25 bodies found at the complex on Sunday were all those of captives.
As an indication of their growing confidence, the rebels last week invited the families of their captives to visit them in prison.
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He knows that the communists are finished as a fighting force, and that they have nothing to gain by harming their captives.
The dangers are that journalists become captives of their sources, and an especially big risk in times as chaotic as the past few years have been that those sources, even very senior ones, don't actually know what is going on themselves.
Rather than admit that by agreeing to release hundreds of murderers from jail he is placing every single family in the country at risk, outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert describes his urgent pleadings to Hamas as a noble gesture towards the Schalit family, a gesture which supposedly gives expression to Judaism's commitment to Jewish captives.
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