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Showing posts with label ransom. Show all posts

Showing posts with label ransom. Show all posts

Aug 15, 2009

Hostages Overcome Pirates on 2 Fishing Boats Off Somali Coast

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Using machetes and guns, the men fought a desperate battle to take control o...

Aug 13, 2009

Soldiers in Philippines Attack Militant Group, Abu Sayyaf

MANILA (AP) — Hundreds of soldiers began an assault on Wednesday in the southern Philippines on two jungle encampments of mili...

Jul 19, 2009

Seizures Show Somalia Rebels Need Money

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN NAIROBI, Kenya — The Shabab , Somalia ’s most fearsome Islamist group, the one leading a guerrilla war aga...

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