South Bay man Freed after being held captive by Somali Pirates for 2&1/2 years

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Source: Daily Breeze

Redondo Beach mother rejoiced Tuesday after her journalist son was released in Somalia more than two years after he was kidnapped by pirates seeking ransom.

“It’s still so new,” Marlis Saunders said in a brief telephone call. “We are just adjusting to all the news and everything.”

A Somali police official and a leader of the Somali pirates said the freelance journalist, identified by the German weekly Der Spiegel as 45-year-old Michael Scott Moore, was flown to Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, after his release.

Saunders said she had been able to talk with her son.

Read more: http://www.dailybreeze.com/general-news/20140923/south-bay-native-held-by-somali-pirates-freed-after-2-12-years-in-captivity

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A hometown guy, and surf journalist. I had wondered what had became of him.

His family paid the ransom.

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1. Follow the MOney

Why can't we follow the money from kidnapping? The government seems to have no problem tracking every cent it is owed for taxes. Large corporations can track money. What is different about the ransom money? If we would nab the people who are actually getting the money, the kidnappings would stop. Criminals do not commit crimes if there is no payoff. Every time that these kidnappers receive ransom and get away with it, the are encouraged to kidnap another victim.