Indian shipping union calls for UN patrols against pirates (AFP)

40 Somali Al-Shabaab Pirates Took Part in Sirius Star Operation, Negotiations through Dubai, Al-Shabaab Pirates Get Shipping Intel Info From Dubai UAE
wwwwbipicomlink.blogspot.com 11/22/2008 — SOMALIA AL-SHABAAB PIRATES ARE MASTERMINDED BY MUSLIM MAFIA CRIME LORDS DAWOOD IBRAHIM AND HAHI MOHAMMAD ISMAIL FROM DUBAI. Shabaab pirates are run by Muslim Mafia Crime Lords in Dubai UAE who monitor shipping routes for targets. The Crime lords pass directions on to at least five pirate gangs ...

AKI - Adnkronos international Somalia: Pirates want $15mln for seized ship, says Islamist leader
adnkronos.com 11/24/2008 — Mogadishu, 24 Nov. (AKI) - A Somali Islamist leader said the ransom for the hijacked supertanker Sirius Star has been reduced from 25 to 15 million dollars. "Middlemen have given a $15 million ransom figure for the Saudi ship. That is the issue now," ...

AP PHOTO SINKING OF AL-SHABAAB SOMALI PIRATES "MOTHER SHIP" THE BURUM OCEAN, BY INDIAN NAVY WARSHIP
wwwwbipicomlink.blogspot.com 11/25/2008 — In this photo released by Indian Navy PRO, anti-piracy operations by Indian Navy's warship INS Tabar in the Gulf of Aden Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008. An anti-piracy watchdog group on Thursday welcomed an Indian warship's destruction of suspected pirate "Mother Ship" vessel in waters off Somalia, ...

FOX NEWS Somalian Terror Organization Shabaab al Mujahideen Looks to 'Throw the West Into Hell', Al-Shabaab has it's website in Vancouver WA, USA
wwwwbipicomlink.blogspot.com 11/25/2008 — Shabaab al Mujahideen, which espouses radical Islamic rule and has close ties to Al Qaeda, is best known for operating training camps for people seeking a more extreme form of Jihad. It also has been forging relations with Somali pirates who have recently been intercepting and holding for ransom ...

FEDS: Twin Cities man behind Somalia bombing, investigating network
kstp.com 11/26/2008 — 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has learned that federal law enforcement sources believe that a Twin Cities man blew himself up in a suicide bombing in Northern Somalia last month.

WW2 Started By Hitler and Stalin, But Mostly By Stalin — Ace of Spades HQ

Sub-Saharan Africa News Roundup, November 23 — The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely

There's Always Somalia — small dead animals

Time Again for Letters of Marque? — American Thinker

Where Have All the Somalis Gone? — Gates of Vienna

U.N. peacekeepers needed in Somalia: African Union (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/20/2008
Reuters - The United Nations should send peacekeepers to Somalia urgently to stop the strife that is fuelling piracy and is being aggravated by feuding politicians, the African Union's top diplomat said on Thursday.

Ukraine marks anniversary of great famine (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/22/2008
AP - Church bells tolled, candles flickered under falling snow and national flags, adorned with black ribbons, flew in the Ukrainian capital Kiev Saturday as the country marked the anniversary of the start of a Soviet-era famine that killed ...

Pope speaks to Ukrainian pilgrims of 1930s famine (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/23/2008
AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday prayed that no political ideology would ever again cost people their freedom and dignity, as he recalled the millions who died from famine in Ukraine and other Soviet regions under dictator Josef Stalin.

UN urged to impose naval blockade against Somali pirates (AFP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/24/2008
AFP - Maritime groups on Monday called on the United Nations to mount an international naval blockade to halt the surge of piracy off Somalia.

Somalia govt to share power with some opposition (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/26/2008
AP - Somalia's weak transitional government has agreed to share power with a faction of the country's opposition, the United Nations said Wednesday.