The news below-- just in today is self-explanatory.


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American kidnapped in Somalia

2012-01-22 10:44

Mogadishu - Gunmen kidnapped an American man in the northern Somali town of Galkayo on Saturday, officials said.

The gunmen surrounded the man's car shortly after the man left the airport, said policeman Abdi Hassan Nur, who witnessed the incident. He said they then forced the American into another vehicle.

Galkayo is on the border between the semiautonomous northern region of Puntland and a region known as Galmudug. It is ruled by forces friendly to the UN-backed Somali government.

A minister from the Galmudug administration said the kidnapped man is an American engineer who came to Somalia to carry out an evaluation for building a deep water port in the town of Hobyo. The gunmen severely beat the foreigner's Somali companion when he begged them not to take the man, said the minister.

The minister spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press.

Kidnapping for ransom

A staff member at the Embassy Hotel, where the man was staying, said the American had gone to the airport to drop off an Indian colleague. The hotel said that the man had both American and German citizenship. The staff member asked not to be identified because he was not supposed to give out information about guests.

Michael Scott Moore

In October, gunmen kidnapped an American woman and a Danish man working for the Danish Demining Group from the same town. They are still being held.

Kidnapping for ransom is has become increasingly common in Somalia over the past five years. Currently at least four aid workers, a French military official, a British tourist taken from Kenya and hundreds of sailors are being held captive.

An airstrike killed six people near the insurgent stronghold of Kismayo on Saturday, according to Sheik Mohamud Abdi, a senior commander of the al-Shabab militant group. In another airstrike outside Mogadishu, a British-Lebanese commander of al-Shabab was killed along with two others when a missile struck the car they were traveling in, al-Shabab spokesperson Sheik Ali Rage said.

Rage identified the British-Lebanese commander as Bilal-Berjawi, saying he was a close associate of late al-Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania who was killed by a Somali soldier in June 2011.

Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October amid concerns that Somalia's 21-year-old civil war was spilling over the countries' joint border.

- AP

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The Curious Case of Inaction by the owners of MT Gemeni-- Glory Shipmanagement owned and managed

On 2nd May 2011 MT Gemeni was hijacked.

On the Monday after the hijack-- we appeared at the offices of Glory Shipmanagement-- owner and manager of this stiricken vessel to offer our expertise to resolve the case within 2 weeks in a ship storming.. at a cost slightly below the asked for ransom.

We were met by a hostile Malay manager who refused to identify himself or give us a card.

We met him again 2 days later to the same response at their offices in Temasek Towers in Singapore.

We told him that sooner or later the hull and crew would be separated and bargained for separately.

Read below-- we are not prophets-- we are security specialists and our words are true.

We do think the South Korean Government will ask Glory Shipmanagement to settle this ransom bill--- at 5 M USD per sailor.

We do think it was ignorant, for the Glory Shipmanagement not to be open to our security solution, and for the Malay man not to even bring us up to higher management.

Life to them is just very cheap-- while they sit in their air-conditioned offices comfortably to contemplate their next most profitable moves.

In all likelihood-- Glory Shipmanagement will abandon the South Korean sailors below. They do not have cash to foot the ransom bill.

The best outcome should have been to storm the ship and save all this renegotiation troubles.

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Somalia Report By MOHAMED BEERDHIGE, ANDREW MWANGURA
Pirates have released the Singapore-flagged MT Gemini and 21 crew members, although they have kept a hold of four South Korean seamen who were on the ship, pirates and maritime officials said Thursday.
The MT Gemini was taken on April 30, and pirates had initially demanded $5 million for its release. There was no information on the size of the ransom.
\"The Singaporean vessel has been released on Wednesday late after payment, but they kept the South Korean crew ... because they want six of their colleagues jailed in South Korea to be released,\" Mu\'min Ali, a Haradhere-based pirate, told Somalia Report. \"The ransom amount is not clear, as pirate groups don\'t like to reveal how much they got these days.\"
The vessel was left anchored at Hobyo, he said.
Nairobi-based diplomats said the vessel would shortly get underway, and that the four Koreans were taken to an unknown destination on shore.
The Singapore-based owner Glory Ship Management confirmed the release in a statement.
\"The pirates ... released 21 of the 25 crew on board but took four South Korean seamen, including the captain, ashore at the last moment despite earlier promises to release the entire all-man crew,\" Reuters news agency reported the company as saying. \"We are relieved that 21 of the crew have been released and are in good health. We will expedite their speedy return home. In the meantime we are expending all efforts to secure the release of the four South Koreans still held as hostage.\"
In July pirates threatened to kill the crew South Korean hostages.
The 25 crew was made up of 13 Indonesians, 5 Chinese, 3 Myanmar, and 4 South Koreans.

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Pricings for Hostage Rescue

5.5M USD per hostage rescued thereabouts. Depends on task difficulty and operating environment.
The earlier crisis is resolved, the cheaper things are.

5M USD per live perpertrator brought to trial and 2.5M USD per perpertrator eliminated as per hostage's testimony and/or photos/video.