NAIROBI, Kenya — A British woman kidnapped from an exclusive Kenyan resort last weekend was snatched by a Somali pirate gang and is being held in central Somalia, witnesses said on Sunday night. The information was still patchy, but witnesses said that a group of pirates had recently arrived with a female hostage in a notorious pirate den hundreds of miles inside Somalia, showing that Somalia’s pirates have the reach and ambition to attack on land, and also inside Kenya. The British government has asked journalists not to reveal the specific town the woman is being held in because they said that it could encourage other pirate gangs to converge on the spot and further endanger her safety. Residents of the town said that they saw the pirates arrive Saturday night by boat with a white female hostage and that the pirates then went into trucks and disappeared. “The British hostage was brought here last night and was taken to an unknown location,” said Nur Ahmed, a resident in the town. “I don’t really know where she was taken exactly.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/world/africa/somali-pirate-gang-may-be-holding-british-tourist.html?ref=world
by Joseph McGee
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