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 * 2 Journalists Freed in Somalia**

Amanda Lindhout, Canadian journalist and Nigel Brennan, Australian journalist, were both freed after being held captive for 15 months. They were kidnapped by militants in August 2008 in Somalia. The kidnappers wanted $1m ransom for the journalists, they had once tried to escape, but this failed epically. Instead they had been pistol-whipped instead and shackled in chains for the past 10 years.


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I thought that the kidnappers must have been very. very greedy people. They held a couple of journalists captive for 15 months! That is just not right, I mean how would you feel if that were you? I do wonder who the kidnappers are, and i hope they get caught soon.

The Similarites were that basically all the info in both articles were similar. They both had the same quotes from Mr. Brennen. and is both said that they demanded $1m in ransom. In fact, both titles of the articles have the same info that 2 journalists were freed in Somalia. the Differences i found was that the NYTIMES went into more detail. thay have more quotes from the journalists like Amanda. Also the article was longer and it talked more about how they were treated when they were hekd captive. Plus the title gave more info on what the article is about. the title from NYIMES included the number of months they were help captive for.