Two held in 'pirate swap plot'
Two security contractors - a Briton and Kenyan - and three former hostages released by Somali pirates are facing prison over an alleged plot to swap the captives for 23 suspected pirates on a desolate Somali airstrip, officials said today.
The allegations will increase concern over the actions of unregulated private security contractors in the violent African nation, which has been mired in a civil war for the past 18 years.
