Fetching them on the beaches

摘要

ON OCTOBER 1st a disabled French woman was dragged from her home on Kenya's northern coast by pirates and taken by speedboat to Somalia. The kidnapping was even more shocking to residents and visitors than the killing of a British publisher and the kidnapping of his deaf wife, also by pirates, three weeks earlier. That attack took place at an isolated spot closer to the Somali border. But the French woman was snatched near the town of Lamu, a haven for foreign tourists.