Calculating that Algeria's cooperation will be needed for the campaign against the militants in Mali, both France and the United States were careful not to complain that the Algerians had mounted their hostage rescue operation without consultation, nor did they complain about the tactics.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh released a statement calling for "calm in the area so that the relief and rescue operations can be carried out without any hindrance".
Italian, British, Irish, Swedish, and Spanish vessels took part in Sunday's rescue operations, as well as two other ships operated by Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières — MSF) and Malta-based humanitarian organization Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS).
Exact death tolls were difficult to obtain owing to ongoing rescue operations and because some families buried their dead without taking them to local hospitals.
However, there are few reliable alternative methods to rescue hostages, especially for countries without the military power to instigate complex hostage rescue operations.
During the World Trade Center rescue operations, trauma patients in Washington DC were taken to a hospital without a trauma program (Walter Reed), while a hospital with a trauma program in the Washington DC area did not receive major trauma patients.
They were rescue operations.
Rescue operations are currently underway.
These nodes represent people and vehicles acting in rescue operations.
