Two journalists freed in Somalia.
By: northsunm32 
There are reports that up to a million was paid in ransom but this has not been confirmed. It is probable that at least some significant ransom was paid or the two would not have been released. Brennan tried to escape and after that he was tortured apparently. The excerpts are from this site.
Somali gunmen free two journalists
Nigel Brennan (L), Amanda Lindhout
Photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian freelance reporter Amanda Lindhout have been released in Mogadishu after 15 months of captivity.
The journalists were freed on Wednesday night and were with police and Somali lawmaker Botan Isse Alin in a hotel in Mogadishu,
Brennan told Reuters by phone from the hotel that he had been tortured physically and mentally. ......
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- News Source: South Africa News | 2 months agoAlong with Canadian colleague Amanda Lindhout, Nigel Brennan spent 15 months as a prisoner of unknown gunmen in Mogadishu after the pair were picked up on the outskirts of the city as they prepared to visit a refugee camp. They were released last...
- News Source: Toronto Star | 2 months agoA golden rule for journalists is to report the story, not become it...Kidnapped in Somalia, the Canadian journalist endured 15 months of captivity before her release this week. Snatched along with Australian photographer Nigel Brennan in August 2008,...
- News Source: Leader Post Online | 2 months agoA former colleague of Alberta journalist Amanda Lindhout who helped facilitate her release earlier this week from a 15-month-long kidnapping ordeal in Somalia lashed out at the Canadian government Friday for discouraging her family from paying a...
- News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 2 months agoKidnapped journalists Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan were released Wednesday after 15 months of captivity in Somalia. (Government of Somalia/Reuters) Shots were fired at the vehicle carrying kidnapped Canadian journalist Amanda...
- News Source: The Age | 2 months agoNigel Brennan after his release this week...Almost a year had passed since Nigel Brennan and Canadian friend Amanda Lindhout had been snatched near a refugee camp on the city's outskirts. Ignoring clear official warnings, the pair had gone to Somalia...
- News Source: Delhi News-Record | 2 months agoAs Amanda Lindhout received medical care in Nairobi yesterday, those close to the recently freed Alberta journalist were buzzing over her release and her imminent return home. "Everyone in town is talking about it. I'm sure there are people across...
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- Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.comPolice spokesman Col. Abdulhai Hassan Barise said Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan are at a Mogadishu hotel with Somali lawmaker Botan Isse Alin. Barise and Alin declined to say if ransom was paid for their release. ...
- Blog Source: www.bartamaha.comAssociated Somali Journalists chairman Dahir Abdulle Alashow said the newly freed journalists would fly to Nairobi on Thursday morning. Lindhout and Brennan were kidnapped in Mogadishu in August 2008, along with local journalist ...
- Blog Source: dodocanspell.blogspot.comPolice spokesman Col. Abdulhai Hassan Barise said Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan are at a Mogadishu hotel with Somali lawmaker Botan Isse Alin. Barise and Alin declined to say if ransom was paid for their release. ...
- Blog Source: somaliswiss.wordpress.comBoth Brennan and Lindhout said they had been tortured. Lindhout told Canada's CTV television from Mogadishu that her ransom had been set at $1 million and her captors were angry because the money was not coming quickly enough. ...
- Blog Source: www.medeshi.com(Medeshi). Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout and her Australian photographer, Neil Brennan, have been freed in Somalia. Lindhout and Brennan were abducted on August 28, 2008, at gunpoint in Mogadishu, the Somalian capital. ...
- Blog Source: www2.macleans.caLindhout, 28, gave a number of interviews earlier today from her hotel room in Mogadishu, describing how she'd been beaten by her captives, kept in a small windowless room, and how she had imagined running through Vancouver's Stanley Park to keep ...
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