[chorizo2]

According to this article, their spokesman, Ken O'Keefe, is Irish. According to The Daily Mail and Sarah Rainey at the Independent he is a former U.S. marine.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1328779/Seven-British-aid-workers-held-captive-rogue-Gaza-aid-ship-row-captain-money.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/aid-workers-held-captive-in-payment-row-2131425.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11736591

All the stories obviously share the same pool information, but you have to get to the Sun to get a picture of "some" of them--and to find out that the hostage-taking captain may not even be aboard anymore.

Wonder why no investigative journalists are asking some obvious questions.

[Ronin]

Snicker, chuckle, snort, giggle...

Always like a healthy dose of Schadenfreude with my coffee.

[thecodont]

From The Sun’s comments:

“BRITS , When i lived in Britain , i never had one neighbour , that looked like any of them !!!!!!!!”

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3223594/Six-Gaza-bound-British-aid-workers-stranded-on-ferry-boat.html#ixzz153aHmRCs

[piasa]

O’Keefe renounced his US citizenship back when he was playing human shield.

[Leisler]

Being a liberal leftist means cut the defense budget but save me when I go hiking in Iran.

[pnh102]

Make them all walk the plank.