Canadian sailors on board a World Food Program ship taking food into Somalia provide an anti-pirate escort. (Photo from CNN)From CNN:
BOSSASO, Somalia (AP) -- A British oil worker was abducted in northern Somalia on Wednesday but security forces surrounded his kidnappers and freed him in a gunbattle, killing one bandit and wounding another, a government minister said.
The freed oil worker, a British citizen and not Pakistani as earlier reported, was unharmed, according to Energy and Minerals Ministry official Farah Abdi Hussein.
The man worked for Canada-based Africa Oil Corp. near the port city of Bossaso, a region that is a hotbed for abductions and piracy.
In southwestern Somalia, two Kenyan Agriculture Ministry officials and their Somali driver were abducted Monday near the border, but a Somali official said he only learned of the abduction Wednesday. The Somali driver was later released.
Foreigners are often targeted for ransoms in Somalia and off its lawless coast, where pirates are holding several ships, including a Ukrainian vessel laden with 33 tanks and other heavy weapons that was taken hostage September 25.
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My Comment: Oil worker freed. Hmmmm .... the message is clear from the Somalis who rule this part of the country .... you can hijack some ships, but do not mess around with the oil workers who are going to bring wealth and money for oil development.
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