Mark Grant, from Grangemouth, is believed to have been among the foreign nationals taken hostage at the gas plant.
BBC: Algeria siege: Alex Salmond confirms Scots among hostages
As a result, Nadjia Bouaricha writes in El Watan , "national public opinion has been the hostage of foreign media outlets distilling snippets of information gleaned from this or that news agency or this or that often doubtful source".
British special forces are on standby to stage a rescue mission in Algeria, after foreign gas plant workers were taken hostage, says the Times.
This effort gained renewed urgency after militants -- upset at Algeria for allowing warplanes to use its airspace to launch attacks in Mali -- took hostage scores of Algerian and foreign workers at an Algerian gas facility about 60 kilometers (about 40 miles) west of the Libyan border.
About 70% of all household and business debt is denominated in foreign currencies, mainly Swiss francs, making the country hostage to a currency over which it has limited control.
The Italian Foreign Ministry reported Saturday that four Italian journalists who were held hostage in Syria for more than a week were released.
The UK Foreign Office has confirmed that some British nationals caught up in the Algerian hostage crisis returned home overnight.
While foreign minister, for instance, he once mounted a unilateral mission to rescue a French hostage from the jungle in Colombia, which ended in failure and fiasco.
It had already cost Mr Fujimori a minister he could ill afford to lose: the foreign minister, Francisco Tudela, who became a national hero during this year's hostage crisis.
Turkey's foreign ministry confirmed late Wednesday that a Turkish male citizen, Aydin Tufan Tekin, had been taken hostage in Lebanon and said Turkish diplomats were working to obtain his release.
In the wake of the Malian upheaval and the recent hostage crisis in neighbouring Algeria - where militants seized a gas plant, killing at least 37 foreign workers - it is no longer forgotten.
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