Modern Piracy

                   

Shippers avoid Suez, but no Cape stampede

mg.co.za
5 hrs ago
        

STEFANO AMBROGI | LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - Nov 19 2008 07:51 More of the world's big shipping firms are quietly diverting their fleets via the Cape of Good Hope instead of risking Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, a senior...

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Freed sailors to reach Mumbai by Nov 25

hindustantimes.com
49 mins ago
        

The 18 Indian sailors on board ship MT Stolt Valor, which was released by Somali pirates after holding it captive for two months, are expected to reach Mumbai by November 25. The Indian crew members are safe and sound and they...

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newslookup.com: The INS Tabar was fired upon and retaliated. newslookup.com

Indian navy sinks pirate ship

newslookup.com
53 mins ago 1 related
        

By Michael Coggan in New Delhi The INS Tabar was fired upon and retaliated. (Reuters: Punit Paranjpe) The Indian navy says it has sunk a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden after more ships had been hijacked in the region and as...

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SEOUL CONSIDERS DISPATCHING STEALTH DESTROYER TO SOMALI WATERS

tmcnet.com
11 hrs ago
        

SEOUL, Nov 19, 2008 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- South Korea will likely send a stealth destroyer and Navy SEAL special forces to Somali waters to combat piracy, a source said Wednesday. "The Navy is considering sending KDX-II...

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Ending piracy on the high seas

zawya.com
3 hrs ago
        

Somalia's brazen pirates have struck again, this time seizing their largest vessel yet off the coast of that desperate and lawless land. Brazen brigands have captured a fully-laden Saudi Aramco-owned vessel carrying two million...

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India sinks Somali pirate ship

reddit.com
1 hr ago
        

Being from somalia i'm happy some actions are being taken to curb this widespreading dare i say "piracy". With that said, why are the indians such party poopers! biggest tanker ever hijacked!lol wow. one for the guinness right...

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Iran says no contact with hijacked ship

zawya.com
28 mins ago
        

TEHRAN, Nov 19, 2008 (AFP) - Iran has not made any contact with the hijackers of a Hong Kong-registered cargo ship it chartered and which has now been hijacked off the coast of Yemen, the state IRNA new agency said Tuesday. "So...

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VENTURE CAPITALISTS INVEST IN SOMALI PIRATES

freerepublic.com
4 hrs ago
        

VENTURE capitalists in New York and London are pumping millions of dollars into Somalia's booming pirate sector. The sharp-eyed investors say Indian Ocean piracy has replaced Bangladeshi t-shirt factories as the developing...

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How the War on Terror pushed Somalia into the arms of al-Qaeda

almendron.com
4 hrs ago 1 related
        

By Martin Fletcher (THE TIMES, 18/11/08): As President Bush prepares to leave office, the pundits will start to produce their balance sheets. It is hard to know what they will list under “achievements”, but easy to predict...

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Somali piracy as systempunkt [Politics in the Zeros. Anti-war, global warming, peak oil,...

feeds4all.nl
8 hrs ago 1 related
        

Global Guerrillas on systempunkt In global guerrilla warfare (a combination of open source innovation, bazaar transactions, and low tech weapons), the point of greatest emphasis is called a systempunkt. It is the point point in...

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Piracy in Somalia