From Yahoo News/AP:MANILA, Philippines – Some hostages are little more than skin and bones, their food running out and illnesses setting in as negotiations for their release drag on, angering their volatile captors. Others report less brutal conditions, even being allowed to fish for extra provisions.
Still, fear is a constant for all the 300 or so merchant seamen now held by Somali pirates. Life for them — and their families back home — is a grueling stretch of days, weeks, even months in cramped conditions, wondering about the future.
Sometimes there are threats of execution, along with worries of what will happen if their employers refuse to pay ransom and their usefulness as bargaining chips ends.
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My Comment: It is only a matter of time before hostages start to die en masse .... natural or not. We should never forget the big picture, which is that these "Somali pirates" are very dangerous men who have a very low regard (if any) for human life.
Unfortunately, nothing is going to be done until this powder keg blows up.
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