£500,000' for Chandlers hostage story

[berniecuddles]

Well Docspock you were spot on mate these pair of muppets are getting a nice pay day £500,000 for the Chandlers hostage story!
All for being stupid going near the area where the somalian pirates were,beggars belief!

[Zeuhl]

Dris

What's up with you? Blimey i only asked for an expansion of your (non obvious) point.

debate << its not 'fractious' or 'argumentative' >> No that'll be you then.

<< I didnt understand why the RNLI was being brought in the the Chandler farce.>>

Threads often meander from one aspect to another - if you had read the thread you'd see DT made a connection. So what's your problem with that?

<<im not in the mood to to be brought to book over my comments/support of the RNLI.I simply wont. >>

Good for you. And who was bringing you to book for that exactly?

LOL
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[Gromit]

// "We are not a large and wealthy corporation and have had to take the decision to go with one broadcaster and one national daily newspaper in order to repay certain immediate debts resulting from this unfortunate and troubling episode in our lives," the Chandlers said in a statement. //

http://www.aolnews.co...mated-793000/19730507

The National newspaper is the Daily Mail. "Certain immediate debts" read loans to pay the ransom. So all you Daily Mailers are lining the pockets of those Somali muslim terrorists.

The money from the cover price goes to the Chandlers, the Chandlers payback the loans that paid the ransom to the pirates. I trust you will all be boycotting the paper and website when this story is printed?

[DTCwordfan]

Boycott the Daily Mail - no way Jose.

It is such an erudite and literate representation of Fleet Street, and in being so represents the finest of the men and women that work in that industry.

Such an action may sink it - Praise be to Allah.

[steg]

i will go out and buy the paper for the very first time because of the story when it is printed.
did the mail pay the ransom?

[Gromit]

No steg, its readers paid the ransom.

[steg]

So who are the Chandlers having to pay back then?

[steg]

" ransom, reportedly paid by a mixture of private investors and the Somali government, secured their release and ended the 388-day ordeal."
it doesn't say anything about the mail readers

[Gromit]

A newspaper putting up money in return for their exclusive story could be desribed as a "Private Investor".

It has not been very widely reported, but the family got an injunction on this story being reported, which is why we heard nothing until they were released seemingly 'out of the blue'.

// Details of the negotiations that led to their release are unclear.

But some months ago, the family of Paul and Rachel Chandler sought what is known as a "super-injunction", prohibiting the media from reporting any developments in their case.

Lawyers for the family argued that speculation about their health, about any possible ransom and on the negotiations about their release might prolong their captivity. //

[DTCwordfan]

funded by the uk government through its aid and via the UN Health programmes as a result of (i) the failed SBS attempt to recover them at turn of the year (apparently a MOD stuff up in the plane to take them in not being properly equipped for the drop) and (ii) that the Press excitement noise back in May around their potential release and payment of the 1st ransom resulted in the pirates backing off and asking for a second tranche. The result was a super-injunction on the Press and why we havent heard anything reported in the media since early summer.

And by the funding routes chosen, Hague remains pure in his claim that the FO has not paid off the pirates. Why did the Somali President want to meet with the Chandlers, especially when getting in from the airport to the centre of Mogadisho is so dangerous.....

[steg]

so mail readers didn't pay the ransom then, you only made that up?

[Gromit]

The Mail does not give its newspaper away. When you pay the cover price, that money is used to buy stories, such as this one. So, it may pass through several hands before the Somali Pirates got the money, but there is a possibility that the huge amount of money that the Mail have paid for exclusivity, indirectly finished up with the Pirates.

It all hinges on when the Mail started to talk to Clifford, and whether that was before their release. I doubt we will ever be told the order of events.

[boxtops]

I understood the the Somali president wanted to meet the Chandlers because the Somali Government disassociates itself from the pirates (and we don't have to mention that many Somalis are Muslim, please - religion is irrelevant in piracy) and felt he needed to meet them himself.

[steg]

Gromit, you made it all up...........you wee scoundrel

[DTCwordfan]

it was a combination of funds apparently, steg......

[Dris]

zuehl -picked everyone up wrong -my apologies.
jno -if there was an avalanche warning I wouldnt climb Everest.Steg if there was a red flag flying I wouldnt swim.
Sorry if my simplified example was too simple.

[Gromit]

Steg

The Mail have paid a small ranson for this story. The pirates have received a small ranson. No one inbetween seem to have made any money out of it (possible exception of Cliffords 15%). So everyone is happy.

[Dris]

O btw -thats my cannie be arsed reply :) LOL

[steg]

Gromit you said "No steg, its readers paid the ransom." now i know they didn't and you made that up

i also now know that private investors and the Somali government paid the ransom

do you not like the mail?
i don't think i have ever read it before or even know if you can easily get it up here but i do look forwards to reading the story when it comes out.

[Gromit]

Thanks for the correction steg.

Can you tell me who the private investors were, and what they expect to get for their money?

[steg]

i do not know who the "Private investors" are/were, but i do know it was not the mail readers now
What they will get for their money?, The safe release of the hostages for a start which is the main thing