It is widely assumed that much of the ransom money is being spent on armaments.
But a couple of questions have always bothered me Do people pay the ransom?
Instructions came to take the ransom on a night train to Mumbai five days after the abduction.
Instructions came later to take the ransom on a night train to Mumbai five days after the abduction.
Kelly said the family had some property but nowhere near enough cash to come up with the ransom.
The ransom: a demand for free airtime for the warlord and senior commanders.
Her husband has been kidnapped in Latin America, and a seemingly crooked local negotiator is handling the ransom bargaining.
Among other things, Rinehart had threatened to cancel the ransom insurance that had been provided for her children and grandchildren.
"When ransom is paid once, the next time there is another piracy incident the ransom will only increase, " Aware said.
South Africa's foreign ministry said it was giving the families consular assistance but that it would not pay the ransom.
Desperate families will give up everything to find the ransom money that will win the release of a father, a brother.
When the ransom has been paid, the pirates are left to count the money and are allowed to leave the vessel freely.
The parents paid the ransom without informing the police, having believed the abductors threat to kill their child if the police were involved.
The BBC's Joseph Odhiambo in Mombasa says that on at least two prior occasions the ransom money was delivered to the hijacked vessels via air-drops.
During the ransom talks, Mr Wahbh's captors cut off his little finger and sent it, along with a video showing what they had done, to his family.
Although his family paid the ransom, he managed to escape during a military attack with helicopters on the site he was held captive at the end of 2006.
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He said the rebels from the National Liberation Army made contact with his family and when his father agreed to pay the ransom requested for his release, the rebels killed him.
The other teacher, an extremely polite older man, told me about the kidnapping of his nephews first one, whom the abductors held for two weeks, and then his brother, grabbed when he came to pay the ransom.
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Mr. Bahlsen held a press conference the day after the first ransom note appeared, saying the firm doesn't respond to threats.
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The quartet offered up proof of their identity, including what they said was the original ransom note.
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The City is almost a government in and of itself, within the U.K., wholly captured and controlled by the finance industry that holds for ransom the rest of its economy.
Bowers told his wife the kidnappers were seeking a ransom, the official said.
At the end of the day a slightly larger seven figure check would ransom the big black case back.
The specialist was probably covered by the kidnap and ransom insurance policy Adobe had taken out to cover the executive and his family.
It's a bit rich for France and Germany to talk about Greece holding the rest of Europe to ransom, when the eurozone is in the process of doing the same to the global economy.
But the visitor can use his moral - and material - authority to stress that strife in Kashmir must stop, that the world will not be held to ransom by the passions in South Asia.
Authorities in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland say they are powerless to confront the pirates, who regularly hold ships for ransom at the port of Eyl.
Mr Sarkozy and others deny that the EU or France paid any ransom money for the medics' release.
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