Well Jimbuna.....
It is rather convoluted.
Since Mcmanus was from manchester a local rag like the manchester guardian is a good starting point. As well as doing a take on the nigerian reporting they link to a piece in Corriere della sera for the Italian version of events which itself links back to the British daily telegraph plus carries info on the mauritanian sideline as the hostage deal was linked to several other ongoing ransom situations in that region of Africa.
What makes the events more complicated is that Britain has a stated public policy of never ever officialy dealing with any such situation . Which is of course bollox as they do every time, but they always do it in the roundabout way to pretend to be saving face which slows the whole process down to a sluggish back and forth at the pace of two altzheimer sufferers playing a game of guess who.
So when events happen fast like in this case they throw the whole bag out the window leaving their Italian partners wondering what the hell just happened..... and in this case they also buggered it up entirely.
But in the vein of some of the early posts in this topic to show them as what they are....can you remember your Prime minister demanding answers from the American government when a British hostage was killed in a botched rescue in Afghanistan?
Was there a rash of negative comments about how Cameron should stick it where the sun don't shine or how the US troops were some trigger happy cowboys?
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