Somali Terrorists Demand $2.5 Million for Journalists

Somali terrorists are demanding $2.5 million for the release of Canadian Journalist, Amanda Lindhout, Australian photojournalist, Nigel Brennan and their Somali fixer.

Hopefully the three are rescued. If the terrorists get their ransom demands you can be rest assured the money will go towards to the jihad in Somalia. Plus more kidnappings will sure to follow. National Post

Dahir Farah has been participating in negotiations to free Amanda Lindhout -- a 27-year-old journalist from Sylvan Lake, Atla. working out of Baghdad -- Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and their Somali fixer, who were all abducted on August 23. The three were on the road between the capital Mogadishu and Afgoye, when they were kidnapped at gunpoint.

"The kidnappers demanded US$2.5-million and we are trying to secure their release," Farah said.

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News of the ransom demand was welcomed back in Calgary by Ms. Lindhout's friend Jeremy Kroeker, who said he is encouraged by the development.

"It is good news," he said Sunday. "It means they see her as a commodity. They're not trying to make a political statement."

No but the whole operation is just a means of raising funds for the jihad in Somalia. Pay the terrorists and it will only encourage them to kidnap again.