Thursday, November 25, 2010

update: Somali pirates boast of having families in Britain :Somali pirate gang who held Chandlers 'have families in Britain.... and one kidnapper's wife is an asylum seeker'

 update on no wonder that NPR sucks ..Polishing fictionalised story like this... Burnsville man pivotal in freeing British couple from pirates?? This is bollshit . Mohamed Aden is the real mastermind behind..Habar-Gidir Hawiye Pirate Kingpin Acting like a Hero
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Two of the Somali pirates who kidnapped yacht couple Paul and Rachel Chandler have boasted of having families in Britain.
The gang members, who held the British couple for 13 months, claimed they were set to join their relatives in the UK during tense negotiations to release the pair.
One of the pirate leaders said he now plans to travel to Britain to join his wife and two children, who he says have lived in London for three years after claiming political asylum.
The other is also believed to have family in London. The revelation comes as police probe links with Somalia after the Chandlers were freed for an unspecified ransom.
In a phone call a 32-yearold named Hassan talks about rejoining his wife and children in London, but says: "I'm not looking forward to the cold weather."
He adds: "I am also worried that women are more powerful in the UK."



Somali pirates boast of having families in Britain



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Two members of the Somali pirate gang that held Britons Paul and Rachel Chandler hostage for 388 days are believed to have family in the UK.

One of the pirate leaders says he plans to travel to the UK to join his wife and two children, who have claimed political asylum and live in London.
The extraordinary revelations come as intelligence and security officials in the UK and Kenya investigate links between Britain and Somali pirates after the couple were freed from the 13-month ordeal in return for a ransom.
Link to London: Officials are investigating if the pirates that kept the Chandlers hostage could have family in the UK
Link to London: Officials are investigating if the pirates that kept the Chandlers hostage could have family in the UK
A second pirate involved in the seizing of the Chandlers is suspected to have lived in Britain and to have family living in London. It is unclear whether his family has also claimed asylum and whether either family receives benefits.
Both men are said to have received a ‘cut’ of the estimated £625,000 ransom paid for the release of Mr Chandler, 60, and his 57-year-old wife.
Investigators say the revelations raise the possibility of pirates travelling to Britain and of part of the ransom money being transferred to family members in the UK.
Their warnings come just weeks after Home Secretary Theresa May highlighted the links between British extremists and Somalia, with some UK citizens travelling there to train alongside Al Qaeda-linked groups. Anti-terrorist investigators believe some have returned to Britain and they have been looking at associations between the UK and pirate gangs, who currently hold some 40 ships and 500 crew hostage.
Frightening possibility: The kidnappers who held the Chandlers, seen here with Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, could travel back to see their families who have claimed asylum in the UK
Frightening possibility: The kidnappers who held the Chandlers, seen here with Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, could travel back to see their families who have claimed asylum in the UK
The Chandlers, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, were seized as they sailed their yacht in the Indian Ocean, near the Seychelles, on October 23, 2009, and held in the harsh Somali bushland by heavily armed pirates.
They are recovering with their family, who paid part of the ransom, and will be questioned about their time in captivity and specifically the role and identities of individual pirates.
The couple will be shown intelligence photographs – and those from videos taken during their time in the hands of the pirates – to see if any can be identified by name and the roles they played.
Satellite and other telephone calls, together with emails sent from Somalia by suspects to the UK are also being examined and it is understood the identities of several of the gang are known.
Immigration investigators are now involved in the inquiry into their British links and seeking to discover whether individuals have visited the UK or have families here. ‘It is possible that some of those involved in piracy have British or other European citizenship and that is a worrying area which we are exploring,’ one investigator said.
Boast: The Somali pirates, who held the Chandlers for 13 months, alluded in satellite calls that the planned to return to the UK and join their families
Boast: The Somali pirates, who held the Chandlers for 13 months, alluded in satellite calls that the planned to return to the UK and join their families

Warning: Home Secretary Theresa May highlighted the links between British extremists and Somalia
Warning: Home Secretary Theresa May highlighted the links between British extremists and Somalia
In satellite calls, the pirates have alluded to links with Britain and a man named as Hassan, 32 – said to be one of the ringleaders of the Chandler abduction – was quoted as saying he had a wife and family in the UK and was planning to join them.
He claimed his family had moved to London three years ago, applying for political asylum.
‘She is putting me under pressure to join her and the children, so I will come to the UK soon,’ he said in one telephone call.
‘I am not looking forward to the cold weather, though, and I am worried that women are more powerful in the UK – I don’t know how long I will stay.’
Hassan has also admitted to being involved in the hijacking of tankers and commercial ships which were boarded at gunpoint and released only after multi-million pound ransoms were paid.
A key figure in assisting the investigation is likely to be Dahir Abdullahi Kadiye, a 56-year-old former minicab driver from East London, who played a significant role in securing the couple’s release.
Mr Kadiye, a father of two, who came to Britain from Somalia in 1997 as a refugee and has UK citizenship, met with the pirates and their representatives for six months trying to broker a deal to free the Chandlers.
Mr Kadiye, who is beginning a security company and travels regularly between the UK and Somalia, said he became involved for ‘humanitarian reasons’ and was hailed as a hero on his return to Britain.



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