The families of British construction worker Chris McManus and an Italian hostage had paid £1million to secure their release, it was claimed last night. Reports in the Italian media claimed the money was a down payment on a £4million ransom demand by terrorists in Sokoto who executed Mr McManus and colleague Franco Lamolinara during a daring raid by the Special Boat Service. There was no indication as to whether Mr McManus’s family had paid the money themselves. There were also said to be high hopes his colleague Mr McManus, 28, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, would be freed, too. According to Italian reports, members of Mr Lamolinara’s family were in Rome last Tuesday to view a video that had found its way into the hands of intelligence chiefs. The tape showed the men, who were kidnapped at gunpoint from their Kebbi apartment last May. Two days later, an unsuccessful mission by the SBS and Nigerian special forces resulted in both hostages being shot dead by their captors after a gun battle at the kidnap gang’s hideout. Senior British Government sources said last night that there had been no ‘coherent’ ransom demand from the terrorists. Turin-based La Stampa newspaper reported that negotiations had been taking place for the release of the Italian hostage through contacts in the west African state of Mauritania. Another report last night said that Mauritanian businessman and politician Moustafa Ould Imam Chafi had been at the centre of the negotiations. Italian news reports said an autopsy on Mr Lamolinara, whose body was flown back to Rome yesterday, found that he was shot in the head three or four times at close range. British officials have insisted that Prime Minister David Cameron had no choice but to order the rescue bid on Thursday morning after intelligence reports revealed that Mr McManus and Mr Lamolinara were about to be moved, or possibly executed by their hard-line captors from the Al Qaeda-linked group Boko Haram. But a friend of the dead Italian’s family, local politician Carlo Riva Vercoletti, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Franco’s wife Anna was hopeful this would soon be over. They had maintained a dignified silence at the request of the Italian Foreign Ministry because they were told things were in hand.
P.S DON'T HATE ME BCOZ OF WHAT COMES OUT OF MY MOUTH, I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT MYSELF, SO phyukOFF..
Posted: at 12-03-2012 07:26 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
moralemike07 at 12-03-2012 08:04 AM (12 years ago) (m)
So, was i there?
Posted: at 12-03-2012 08:04 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
they hav killed them let them return the money............ bokoidiots are just coward and lazy fools........ i jus dnt knw y d northners are this wicked......... well they can even kill their own children just for a cow.... by the time britiko bring their armed people com northners go hear am.. i jus pray say mak we divide this country fast fast.......... all this foolish people dey will face the wrath of God
IF U TINK D DEVIL IS A LIAR, THEN LET A GUY LIE TO U AND U WILL KNW DAT D DEVIL IS A LEANER ........
Posted: at 12-03-2012 10:06 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
biancaflexy at 12-03-2012 10:32 AM (12 years ago) (f)
Bokoidiots dey r fools. I jst pity dem coz wen dem do dis nonsenz finish, dey'll neva set dier eyes on one single virgn nt 2 tlk of fukn 72 virgns. May d souls of d foriegnas rest in peace
Posted: at 12-03-2012 10:32 AM (12 years ago) | Upcoming
EMMYBOSS at 12-03-2012 11:41 AM (12 years ago) (m)
DEY DON KILL THE PIKIN OF THE PEOPLE WEY MAKE US ONE NIGERIA. DEY GO USE VEXATION NOW DIVIDE THE COUNTRY SINCE NA DEM MAKE AM ONE. LOOK WETIN GO HAPPEN AFTER THIS SAGA. WAIT A MINUTE, HMMM, THIS WAS THE REASON WHY IBB AND CO HAD A CLOSE DOOR MEETING. OOOOKKKKK. DEY DON USE THEIR OWN HAND PUT SAND FOR DEM OWN TUWO.
Posted: at 12-03-2012 11:41 AM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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do i didn't read the story but i know the content is pretty bad 
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