LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said people had to prepare for "bad news" after Algerian forces launched an operation to free foreign hostages at a remote desert gas plant on Thursday.
"The Algerian armed forces have now attacked this compound," Cameron told BBC TV. "It is a very dangerous, a very uncertain, a very fluid situation and I think we have to prepare ourselves for the possibility of bad news ahead."
A spokesman for his office confirmed that Cameron had postponed a highly-anticipated speech on Britain's future role in the European Union because of the crisis.
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