"Make themselves known"

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"Victims are taken to Pakistan’s remote tribal regions along the northwest border with Afghanistan, hundreds of miles from Lahore, before the abductors make themselves known" I want to know in this context what is meaning of underlined sentence

 

[TheParser]

"Victims are taken to Pakistan’s remote tribal regions along the northwest border with Afghanistan, hundreds of miles from Lahore, before the abductors make themselves known" I want to know in this context what is meaning of underlined sentence

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I believe that it means something like:

before the abductors reveal their true identities. In other words, the victims do

not know who abducted them until they reach the remote tribal regions. Then

the abductors tell the victims who they (the abductors) are.

 

[1235]

***** NOT A TEACHER *****


I believe that it means something like:

before the abductors reveal their true identities. In other words, the victims do

not know who abducted them until they reach the remote tribal regions. Then

the abductors tell the victims who they (the abductors) are.

dear sir" Before =Prior to this"?

 

[TheParser]

dear sir" Before =Prior to this"?

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(1) I believe that you are 100% correct.

(2) Here is a sentence from an excellent dictionary:

She visited me on the day prior to her death.

CREDIT: The New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2001.