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Update on kidnapped Alberta journalist Amanda Lindhout
10am
Ed Mason
3/13/2009

The Somalian group that first revealed a lower ransom demand for kidnapped Alberta journalist Amanda Lindhout claims it is working on her "unconditional" release.

Lindhout, originally from Sylvan Lake, and Australian colleague Nigel Brennan were grabbed by gunmen last August 23rd.

In the weeks after the kidnapping, there was a ransom demand for two and a half million dollars but the Somali Journalists Rights Agency later reported it was reduced to 100-thousand dollars.

The agency's executive director, Daud Abdi Daud, says in an e-mail to iNews 880: "SOJRA is pleased to inform you that it has paved a possible way that the two journalists can get back to their freedom without condition...On behalf of SOJRA we can expect a positive outcome to this way which is using the government ministers particularly those who from the Clan of the kidnappers".

No time line is given and as with all previous claims about the well being of Lindhout and Brennan in Somalia, this claim can not be independently verified.

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