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Luke Somers was born in London, United Kingdom in 1981. He is a photojournalist and has worked in many countries, including Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan. He has also worked for the Associated Press, the New York Times, and the BBC.
Somers studied at the University of Westminster and the London College of Communication. He has won several awards for his work, including the Rory Peck Award for his coverage of the Yemeni revolution in 2011.
Somers was kidnapped in Yemen in 2013 and held hostage by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. He was killed in a rescue attempt by US forces in 2014.
Somers was 33 years old at the time of his death. His net worth is unknown.
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Luke Daniel Somers |
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6 December 2014, |
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USS Makin Island, off Yemen |
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Luke Somers Height, Weight & Measurements
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His work was featured at the 2016 Yemeni Film & Arts Festival in New York. They were part of an exhibit at New York University's Kevorkian Center in Manhattan.
Luke Daniel Somers (1981 – 6 December 2014) was a British-born American photojournalist who had been held hostage by the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen. He was a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States. He traveled to Egypt before settling in Yemen.
In December 2014, Somers appeared in a video that was issued by AQAP. The video, which is aimed at the United States government, includes an AQAP official saying that the United States has three days to meet their demands. In the video, the official also says that "otherwise the American hostage held by us will meet his inevitable fate." The video does not specify the demands AQAP want the United States to meet. The mission to rescue Somers was disclosed in response to the release of the video by AQAP.
After being authorized to do so by President of the United States Barack Obama, the Pentagon launched a secret mission to attempt to rescue Somers in November 2014, but the mission was unsuccessful. On December 4, they disclosed the fact that this mission had occurred.
Details surrounding the mission remain classified as of December 4, 2014. It is believed that Somers had been moved from the hostage site before the special operators in the mission arrived there. Previous intelligence indicated that some hostages had been moved several days earlier, but it was not then known if Somers was among them.
On December 4, 2014, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) threatened to execute Somers within three days if the US government failed to meet unspecified demands.
On December 6, 2014, about 40 US special operations forces were involved in the attempt to rescue Luke Somers and Pierre Korkie, a South African teacher also held by al-Qaeda militants in Yemen, which followed US drone strikes in the area. The rescuers, backed by Yemeni ground forces, advanced within 100 meters of the compound in Shabwah Governorate when they were spotted by the militants. A firefight ensued. When the American soldiers finally entered the building where Somers and Korkie were kept, they found both men alive, but gravely wounded. The US forces pulled Somers and Korkie onto V-22 Ospreys, and medical teams began performing surgery in midair. Korkie died during the flight and Somers died after the Ospreys landed on the USS Makin Island.
His work will also be shown April 15–17 at the Friends Meeting of Washington, DC. His work can be found on his Corbis and Demotix pages.
Somers was kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, in September 2013.
Somers was born in London, England but grew up in Sacramento, California and Renton, Washington. He graduated from Beloit College in Wisconsin with a bachelor's degree in creative writing in 2008, and later traveled to Egypt before settling in Yemen.
