Colin and José Cendon shortly after their release Photo: AFP From The Telegraph:
The pirates are back again - and unlikely to go away, says Sunday Telegraph chief foreign correspondent Colin Freeman, who was kidnapped in Somalia for six weeks.
An unpleasant shiver coursed down my timbers as I saw the pictures of a party of terrified French yachters being held at gunpoint by Somali pirates.
Like them, I too have had the chance to study the business end of a pirate's Kalashnikov close-up. Back in November last year, while in northern Somalia reporting on the piracy problem for the Sunday Telegraph, a gang of them kidnapped my photographer and I, holding us hostage in caves for six weeks,
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My Comment: Even though the Navy Seals were successful in rescuing Capt. Richard Phillips from Somali Pirates today, there are many more pirates ready to take their place. Unfortunately .... it is only when the land bases for the Somali pirates are destroyed that there can be any hope to stop this vicious cycle of violence .... a possibility that will probably not happen for the foreseeable future.
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