30 Hostages Killed: 4 Hostages Dead, 60 Hostages Unaccounted For, Islamic Militants Ask For 2 U.S. Terrorist Prisoners For Algerian Gas Plant Victims

60 hostages in Algeria are still unaccounted for according to the Associated Press. After three days of a bloody standoff at a gas plant with Islamic militants in the Sahara early reports claimed 30 hostages were dead.

Initially, militants offered to give up two American hostages for terrorists that were jailed in America says Mauritanian, a North African extremist news site. The suspects want the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a Pakistani scientist who was convicted of shooting at two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The request is linked to al-Qaida's, Moktar Belmoktar, who is behind the hostage plot.

Wednesday 132 workers were held hostage. The workers of several nations:  Americans, Britons, French, Norwegians, Romanians, Malaysians, Japanese, Algerians are employees at the Ain Amenas natural gas plant. Four hostages were killed after Algerian forces made a rescue attempt, and resumed negotiation tactics according to Algerian news, "more than half of the 132 hostages" were freed, and the remainder may still be in hiding.

The offer, according to a Mauritanian news site that frequently broadcasts dispatches from groups linked to al-Qaida, came from Moktar Belmoktar, an extremist commander based in Mali who apparently masterminded the operation.

British Prime Minister David Cameron went before the House of Commons and express his concerns for knowledge of any more military moves by the Algerian forces, "This is a large and complex site and they are still pursuing terrorists and possibly some of the hostages," Cameron said. He the House that it still remains dangerous saying, "part of the threat has been eliminated in one part of the site, a threat still remains in another part."

The militants claim that 35 hostages have been killed due to military helicopters opening fire while they were transporting hostages.