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2010-04-10 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by Fred 2010-04-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 victims are usually released unharmed a few days after

I don't know what the going rate is, but some years ago in Venezuela the kidnapping business kept the ransom rates moderate (maybe $20k) and standardized - you could even buy 'kidnap insurance' that would pay the ransom. Kidnapping was just another business. The 'authorities' got their cut, nobody got hurt, and the criminals made an 'honest' living. The foreigners paid. It was just a cost of doing business.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-04-10 00:17|| 2010-04-10 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 It's an industry. The first time the entire village the gang is operating from is obliterated and the rubble bounced, would be the last time the "hostages" from that nation were taken. Go Russian, Once.

Posted by Frank G 2010-04-10 00:41|| 2010-04-10 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Frank, there's strong overlap between the parts of Nigeria where kidnapping has gone on, and what was part of the Biafran rebellion. So it's not only been "Russian Jr'd," but it's had the full Russian done on it, where it was starved into submission to the cost of some million or so lives.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-04-10 01:19|| 2010-04-10 01:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Biafra is long over. Opportunity is available if they want it. They choose to thug it out. Hammertime

Posted by Frank G 2010-04-10 01:51|| 2010-04-10 01:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Another standing headline...

Posted by Raj 2010-04-10 07:36|| 2010-04-10 07:36|| Front Page Top

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