In the news today

BBC world news today writes the following:
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Al-Qaeda 'issues France threat'

Al-Qaeda's deputy leader has claimed that a radical Algerian Islamist group has joined al-Qaeda and is being urged to punish France, it has emerged.
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But somehow all this is not really making it to the mind of people on the rig since we found out that yesterday a rig in Algeria took a kick and burnt down. So far the count is for two dead, but the accident sounds particularly bad and the numerous wounded may not all be lucky enough to make it.
As you can well imagine there is a really weird mood on the rig today. One would hope that in times like this people will remember that we are all people working on the same rig...but honestly I know better than to hope that this will bring the troops together on our rig.

Sitting in the office this morning the company man, the tool push and myself were imagining ourselves having to make the call to the families and we had the goose bumps...A good exercise in reminding ourselves that time is only time, money is only money but every person on this rig is somebody's son or in my case somebody's daughter.