'Still, a positive outcome looks promising so who cares!'

I meant: who cares about my passing observation that it's taken them 2 months to find them just 100 + kms out of Illizi when one considers the good news that they are alive and will hopefully be released. Maybe it wasn't obvious.
I feel that here on the forum the eventual wellbeing of the missing (some of who I met just before it happened) is more relevant than the motivations of the still-unknown kidnappers, Europoser reactions or even the fact that I'll have to put my grandmother back on eBay this winter (she's used to it).

As for the rest of Tex's defensive, ignorant or confused ravings, wekk they were clearly gagging for an eruption but are irrelevant here. I thought I'd leave them up for a bit of sport as the forum is kind or quiet at the moment (Sam, don't get any ideas! ;-).
One wonders why he bothers boiling over on this specilised Sahara travel forum when he clearly has no experience or interest in Saharan travel? Was it because German TV dumped him or is the Black Flag Cafe closed for fumigation?

I've come across this mushy-brained hostility towards independent Sahara travellers on other forums (not to mention UNATA's self-serving outburts). In the overall scheme of things what are they getting so worked up about what we do in our holidays or even for a living? Is it envy?

These abductions raise several interesting questions about the motivation for Sahara travel and the ethics of adventure touring. But if there's enough interest I may include the Historic March on Baghdad as a new route in the next edition - with GPS waypoints of course!

Ch

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