Two months later, Mr. Moore received a surprising message on Facebook.

“How are you, Michael?” the message said. “I am ur friend Mohammed Tahlil. I wants to speak with u.”

The sender’s Facebook page included his photograph. Mr. Moore recognized him as one of the men who guarded him during his captivity in Somalia. He decided to write back.

What followed was an extraordinary exchange of Facebook messages between the journalist and his former captor. How long they communicated and where the conversation ultimately led has not been made public, but in the summer, the Somali was taken into custody by United States authorities and jailed in New York City, court records show. "

This passage above is directly from the New York Times Article. The Somalian Kidnapper Has faced sentences such as: Kidnapping, hostage taking, conspiracy and former other accounts which were not stated. Mr.Moore also told reporters that in 2012 he was taken from Mogadishu. Moore also said that during its capture the "pirates" Broke his wrist and it took weeks to heal on its own. He witnessed torture among one of the other people that was held captive along with him and he told reporters that they hung him upside down and beat him with a bamboo cane. Moore's mom agreed to paying 1.6 million for her son's release.

In the article they stated "It said some of Mr. Moore’s Somali captors brandished AK-47 assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and handguns. One of them made threats that if the ransom was not paid, Mr. Moore would be sold to the Shabab, an Islamist extremist group." I feel like after reading this article by the New York Times, that Somalia Terrorist/ Extremist are still very much alive and still have bad violence in Somalia

Citation: Weiser, Benjamin. “Somali Pirates, a Kidnapping, Then a Facebook Message.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 9 Nov. 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/11/09/nyregion/pirate-somali-kidnapped-journalist.html?rref=collection/timestopic/Somalia&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection.