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BBC News - Chandlers to come back 'very soon' after pirate ordeal

Some good news for a change, Paul and Rachel Chandler have been released by Somali pirates who have been holding them for over 12 months

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I'm glad for them. It must have been a profound life changing experience.
I wonder who paid the ransom.

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It is good news.

It's not like they were even taking risks, sailing where they did.

They were a thousand miles away from the Somali coast.

I love east Africa, but it's not somewhere I'd travel to now.

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it is brilliant news but unfortunately Paul Chandler has just been told that his father died whilst he was being held :(

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South Africa don't look over good either G. a young woman on her honeymoon has been murdered there

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I heard that on the news late last night.

Very sad, and doesn't paint the Rainbow Nation in a particularly good light.

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Looks like someone paid half a million in ransom money. I wonder who?

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ITV?

Looking for new breakfast hosts?

:rolleyes::D

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Great news! I wonder thou, when those pirates will be taken care of? I mean somalia is one of the most dangerous places to travel to, including the seas around it.
I mean, they can attack iraq and afghanistan, but can't take care of somalian issues? C'mon!

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perhaps theres nowt of real value to em in somalia?:rolleyes::confused:

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Unfortuneatly these people were snatched on the high seas around 2000 miles away from Somalia

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Mysterious ransom providers identified?

Paul and Rachel Chandler: Was Britain's £5.8m aid grant to Somalia a ransom? | Mail Online

Shocking, perhaps but sadly no surprise.

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There was a ransom paid in June but then they asked for more, and really Bob the Mail:rolleyes:

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OK can someone please explain ...... Somalia is a failed State , no functioning Govt. total anarchy ....... so who gets/signs for the foriegn aid cheque ? and where does he/she cash it ? and more importantly who the heck authourised it.
Seems to me the best solution to the pirate problem is to just "Glass them over"

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Oh yes.. it never takes Bob to long to turn a thread titled "good news" into bad news..:D