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Sometimes the bad guys do get it Amanda Lindhout, a young Canadian journalist, was kidnapped and held for ransom in Somalia some years ago. Taken with her was an Australian photographer. Both were eventually released after ransoms were paid through a private security agency. Amanda's release cost her family $1.2 million Cdn. The interesting follow-up to this is what happened to one of her kidnappers, a guy she refers to as 'Adam'. The RCMP set up a sting operation. They got Adam in contact with a purported Somali businessman in Canada who spun him a line about making money. The 'businessman' after some time told Adam that he had a book publisher who was interested in Adam's idea of writing a book on the history of Somalia. Adam is barely literate. Adam flies to Ottawa in 2015, and is quickly arrested. He now awaits trial. |
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5/4/2016 7:49 am |
For all my fellow colonials down under, the Aussie photo-journalist held at the same time has written a book about his experience.
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I am glad she got home safely. Elaine Shuel
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It's good to see life is two way street. If ladies from Africa get to play with us here...We can play back! 
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5/3/2016 8:57 am |
Nothing like greed to lure them in. Spiritwoman ^i^
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5/3/2016 8:01 am |
Wow, the RCMP are amazing. I wonder if they were able to get any of the ransom money back? One of the articling law students in our law firm was arrested on some trumped up charges in Somalia, and one of the partners flew to Somalia and managed to get the charges dropped. The Canadian government's position is that it will not pay ransom. It is illegal for anyone else to pay a ransom as well, but government reps tell the victim families that nobody has ever been charged for that offence. I wonder if the Canadian government has some arrangement to offset the ransom price at arm's length. I also suspect that Canadian special forces were likely involved in searching for the kidnapped. Reading between the lines about the Canadian who was beheaded recently by captors in the Pillipines one might easily reach that conclusion.
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5/3/2016 7:43 am |
Wow, the RCMP are amazing. I wonder if they were able to get any of the ransom money back? One of the articling law students in our law firm was arrested on some trumped up charges in Somalia, and one of the partners flew to Somalia and managed to get the charges dropped.
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