Somali captors split French hostage duo

[Frankie]

Has hijacking ships become to risky for these scumbags?

Somali captors split French hostage duo
July 16 2009 at 05:40PM

Mogadishu - Two French security agents kidnapped in Somalia have been split up and are now being held by separate radical Islamist groups, an Islamist source said on Thursday.

One of the hostages is being held by the al-Qaeda inspired Shebab militia that controls large parts of Somalia, while the second is in the hands of Hezb al-Islam, headed by the radical Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys.

"The two Islamist groups agreed to divide the hostages between themselves this morning after a long argument about their fate," the source said on condition of anonymity.

"Shebab have one and Hezb al-Islam took the other one with them," he added.