Hackers 'buy' 2 MSF hostages from Al-Shabaab

(BRUSSELS2) The two Spanish logisticians from Médecins sans frontières, Montserrat Serra and Blanca Thiebaut, who were kidnapped in October from a Somali refugee camp in northern Kenya by Al Shabaab men are now in the hands of pirates. Alweyne's group (Mohamed Abdi Hassan) allegedly "acquired" them for the sum of $200.000 ($100.000 each), reveals Somalia Report. They arrived in Harardhere, one of the main pirate strongholds, on Sunday on a speedboat. The pirates denied any link with the Islamic organization, stressing that it was only a question of "business" told a pirate to our Somali colleagues. " The Al-Shabaab needed the money and had no way of negotiating a ransom. We have it. It's business ". The pirates are also believed to be holding three other Western hostages: Britain's Judith Tebbutt, kidnapped from Kenya's Lamu resort in September 2011; the Dane Poul Thisted and the American Jessica Buchanan of the Danish NGO "Danish Refugee Council" mine clearance group, kidnapped at the same time as a Somali in Galkayo in Galmudug, last October.