Why David Cameron will not stop Somali pirates getting their pieces of eight
Is it right to pay ransoms to pirates? That's a question that comes up for discussion in Whitehall next week, when David Cameron's piracy ransoms task force meets to discuss how to stop the lucrative...
View ArticleHow the kidnappers of Britain's 'Iraq Five' got away with murder – again and...
Amid the uproar in the Arab world over the latest Israel-Gaza confrontation, it may be no coincidence that the Iraqi government has chosen this time to free from jail Ali Mussa Daqduq, a suspected...
View ArticleHow the world's navies ignored the plight of a hijacked ship for nearly three...
How's this for a seasonal tale to warm the hearts? After almost three years in captivity, the crew of the Iceberg 1, a cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates, are home after finally being rescued. For...
View ArticleAlgerian hostage crisis is the price we pay for supporting the French Mali...
When David Cameron agreed to provide the French with two of the RAF's massive C-17 transport aircraft last weekend for their military operation against Islamist militants in Mali, he would have had no...
View ArticleDifficult lessons from Algeria for David Cameron
Algeria knows about terrorism and the horrors that Islamist insurgencies can bring to a society. Any country that went through the brutal civil war that raged for the best part of the nineties between...
View ArticleBoko Haram, ransoms, and Britain's dilemma in helping the #bringbackourgirls...
How is Nigeria going to get its kidnapped schoolgirls back? It's been more than six weeks now since an estimated 200 pupils were snatched by the Islamist group, Boko Haram, and ever since, there's been...
View ArticlePaying ransoms only finances more killing
It was a tale of two British hostages. Alan Henning risked his life to relieve the suffering of Muslims in Syria. Isil kidnapped and then murdered him, adding his name to 5,500 civilian victims in Iraq...
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