Algeria sends a message to the Terrorist Nation: We don't talk and you have 24 hours to surrender or everyone dies. (When you believe Jihadist hostages are going to die horrible deaths, anyway, this is the only "deal" that makes any sense.)

According to the AP:     Algeria's response (all dead including 23 hostages and 31 jihadists)  to the crisis was typical of its history in confronting terrorists, favoring military action over negotiation, which caused an international outcry from countries worried about their citizens. Algerian military forces twice assaulted the two areas where the hostages were being held with minimal apparent mediation - first on Thursday, then on Saturday.

"To avoid a bloody turn of events in response to the extreme danger of the situation, the army's special forces launched an intervention with efficiency and professionalism to neutralize the terrorist groups that were first trying to flee with the hostages and then blow up the gas facilities," Algeria's Interior Ministry said in a statement about the standoff.

Immediately after the assault, French President Francois Hollande gave his backing to Algeria's tough tactics, saying they were "the most adapted response to the crisis."

"There could be no negotiations" with terrorists, the French media quoted him as saying in the central French city of Tulle.

Editor’s notes:  in case you missed it,  the French President agreed with the Algerian response.  As brutal as it was,  the terrorists in Algiers, now know exactly how the next crisis will end  . . . . . . .  there will be no negotiations,  "release the hostages or all will die and you  - the terrorists – will have gained absolutely nothing."