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Somali Pirates Release Togo Ship, Score $100K Ransom

Tanker was to deliver food aid to Somalia

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(Newser) – Somali pirates have released a Togo-flagged cargo ship that was to deliver food aid to their own country, the BBC reports, but only after securing a ransom rumored to be $100,000. “Somali traders were involved in the release,” a pirate source told Reuters. They paid “not more than $100,000.” The ship had been bound for Mumbai to pick up food aid for Somalia when it was hijacked on April 14, a source told the AP.

In this photo taken Nov. 5, 2004, workers unload food aid from the MV Liberty Sun at Eritrea's main Red Sea port, Massawa.
In this photo taken Nov. 5, 2004, workers unload food aid from the MV Liberty Sun at Eritrea's main Red Sea port, Massawa.   (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
A television cameraman waits by his camera in Mombasa harbor as a cargo ship the Balgarka prepare to dock, Wednesday, April 15, 2009.
A television cameraman waits by his camera in Mombasa harbor as a cargo ship the Balgarka prepare to dock, Wednesday, April 15, 2009.   (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
In this photo originally released by the French Defense Ministry April 11, 2009, armed pirates and their hostages are seen aboard the French yacht Tanit, off the coast of Somalia .
In this photo originally released by the French Defense Ministry April 11, 2009, armed pirates and their hostages are seen aboard the French yacht Tanit, off the coast of Somalia .   (AP Photo/ECPAD-French Defense Ministry)
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Corona_Kinq
Apr 20, 09 9:32 AM CDT
All you need is an old gun and a boat and you too can make 6 figures! Why are we rewarding these douchebags? the pirates aren't completely stupid. If you keep paying them huge sums of money for basically no work at all, damn right they're gonna keep doing it. Reply
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Caps
Apr 20, 09 10:29 AM CDT
Corona-King, I will have to admit, I never thought I would agree with you on anything, but I do agree with this comment. Reply
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TerrifiedCitizen
Apr 20, 09 12:57 PM CDT
Now if the ransoms would just start to dry up the same way the fishing did... Reply
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