"I understand... but if you don't pay in that area... it will be useless for them." "Stephen, this is Ali from Somalia." "Stephen, we agree to take 440,000 because there is quick action, there is an emergency." "There is an Islamic group close to us." "That's why we cannot wait ten days or five days." "We need you to call me... an emergency." "So, we want you to call us quick." "We do not cheat anybody." "We have a representative in Kenya." "We can send our man, and he hands over the money." "Yes, it has dropped." "I felt it was awful, what had happened." "I felt something needed to be done." "I found out that the couple were being held in central Somalia." "Fortunately, I am originally from that area, so are my family, who are well known." "The people in that area are mainly my clan." "I felt it was essential to do something, both for the British people and the Somalis back home." "My name is Dahir." "I didn't tell my family about my mission because I didn't want them to worry about me." "I was frightened that if the pirates found out what I was doing, they would kill the hostages." "Yeah, I am Dahir." "Welcome, Stephen." "I'm from London..." "East London." "I'm Somali-British." "On behalf of the Somali diaspora," "I am trying my best to release those two innocent persons." "I could feel how worried he was." "He asked me if I had seen the couple." "I told him no, which was the truth." "He asked me how it was going." "I said, "I'm very hopeful."" "No, I don't need money now." "Already I spoke to the hijackers." "I'm pushing to them to release the people without ransom." "I was in talks with community groups that I had set up." "I reminded them of a proverb that they know..." ""If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours."" "It helped me explain to them, half a million Somalis live in Britain and get financial support." "Would you like it if the people who look after that huge community... would you like their fathers and mothers and friends to be killed in your country?" "The answer is no." "I'm flying after tomorrow to their place." "Yeah." "We will come back together, inshallah." "I asked the clan if I could go to see the couple that evening." "The pirates imposed conditions." "They said, "Bring him, but he must come without a watch, phone, walkie-talkie or gun, and he must come alone." "Be there at ten o'clock in the evening."" "It was the most frightening moment of my life." "How's your family?" "I have picked the meeting place." "I am expecting them to arrive here within half an hour or one hour more." "Yeah, I can see them where they are, but still..." "I can't talk to them." "We cried and held each other." "I know for a fact, they realized they wouldn't achieve their aims." "So they were like a fish who runs out of water."