Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Geoff, Thanks for the update. I gather there is good reason to be concerned. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 6:12 PM Subject: [Leica] Kidnapped photographers and photojournalist > For those sharing our great concern here in Australia: > Local media reports that: > Photographer Nigel Brennan, 37, from Bundaberg in Queensland, and Canadian > reporter Amanda Lindhout were taken hostage by gunmen on Saturday about > 25km > from Mogadishu, the Somali capital. > "We have been actively engaged in this since the news of the kidnapping > occurred," [Prime Minister]Kevin Rudd said yesterday. > "We have deployed additional staff from our mission in Pretoria to our > high > commission in Nairobi, which is handling this case at a consular level," > he > said. > "DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) officials are providing > consular assistance to the family in Australia." > No claim of responsibility or ransom demands have been made, and the > motive > for the kidnapping remains unknown. > A spokesman for the Somali Government said the whereabouts of Brennan, > Lindhout and a Somali photographer who was their translator were unknown. > "But we are getting information they are still in captivity," he said. > > > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >