latimes.com - 4/8/2009
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The early-morning attack of the Danish-owned cargo ship occurred about 240 nautical miles southeast of the Somali port city of Eyl in the Indian Ocean, according to U.S. naval officials. The ship's owner, Norfolk, Va.-based Maersk Line Ltd., a subsidiary of Denmark's A.P. Moller-Maersk, is a ...
news.yahoo.com - 4/8/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
NAIROBI, Kenya Somali pirates on Wednesday hijacked a
U.S.-flagged cargo ship with 20 American crew members onboard,...
hundreds of miles from the nearest U.S. military vessel in some of the most dangerous waters in the world. The 17,000-ton Maersk ...
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Somali pirates hijack ship; 20 Americans aboard
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Report: Pirates hijack American ship
News —
... read that correctly. Pirates off the coast of the Horn of Africa have hijacked a U.S.-flagged ship and its crew, according the Los Angeles Times. The cargo ship, with a crew of 20 Americans, is said to be near the Somalia coast and believed to be safe. The owner of the ship, Maersk Line Ltd., is based in Norfolk, Va., and the company has frequently worked as a shipping contractor for the Defense Department. Apparently this ship was not working for the department when it was hijacked. From the Times : The attack marks a rare hijacking of a U.S.-operated ship in Africa, where ...
Pirates Hijack Ship With 20 Americans Off Somalia
The Moderate Voice —
... Vessel-seizing pirates have struck again — this time hijacking a ship carrying 20 Americans, an event that will refocus international attention on this growing martime problem. ...
Inherent Right
Neptunus Lex —
It’s been troubling to watch US warships “monitor” the status of foreign flagged vessels seized by Somali pirates and brought within territorial waters, where they are, theoretically at least, subject to local law enforcement rather than high seas piracy suppression. Theoretically, because Somalia has no functioning government or security services with which to prosecute the law enforcement issue.
But now the pirates have seized a US-flagged merchant ship, which ought to make things a good deal simpler:
A ...
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Piracy and the need for a weak state
newshoggers.com 4/8/2009 — By Fester:
The world's navies have deployed a significant fraction of the freely available out of area capacity to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off of northern Somalia to suppress piracy. So the pirates,being fairly intelligent decided to go where the unescorted merchant ships are. They ...
Report: US Crew Retakes Pirated Ship —
Little Green Footballs
CBS News reports that the crew of the hijacked cargo ship Maersk Alabama has possibly overpowered the Somali pirates: American Crew Battles Somali Pirates .
(CBS/AP) The crew of a hijacked U.S. cargo ship is in a standoff with Somali pirates after attempting to retake the vessel, ...
Somali Pirates Attempt Hijack Of US Ship, Turned Back —
Flopping Aces
Real late to this story but it appears some Somali pirates picked the wrong victim, a US flagged ship, but they have taken the Captain hostage:
Hours after pirates commandeered a United States-flagged container ship with 20 American crew members off the coast of Somalia on Wednesday, the ...
This Is A Test —
Wizbang
About two hundred miles off the coast of Somalia, a U.S.-flagged freighter has been seized by pirates, in the fifteenth recorded instance of high seas piracy since March 1. The...
Pirates on the High Seas —
The Democratic Daily
I’ve been working on a redesign of my business websites and juggling a few other things this week and I’m posting sporadically, but I wanted to note briefly on the news of the pirates seizing the American ship today off the coast of Somalia. The ship was on its way ”to the ...
Somali pirates, U.S. crew, Rush Limbaugh, and Barack Obama. —
Althouse
I was listening to the beginning of the Rush Limbaugh show as I was cooking lunch this morning, and he was going on about the U.S. crew that was taken hostage by pirates off the cost of Somalia today. He'd slotted the story into his Obama-doesn't-know-what-to-do template and was riffing away ...
American Ship Seized by Somali Pirates —
Outside The Beltway | OTB
An American-flagged ship with 20 Americans aboard has been seized by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean:
Pirates commandeered a United States-flagged container ship with 20 American crew members off the coast of Somalia on Wednesday, in what appeared to be the first time an American-crewed ship ...
Again With the Damned Pirates —
Balloon Juice
Can we address this once and for all :
Pirates commandeered a United States-flagged container ship with 20 American crew members off the coast of Somalia on Wednesday, the first time an American-crewed ship was seized by pirates in the area.
The container ship, the Maersk Alabama, was ...
To the shores of Tripoli... —
Corrente
Er, Somalia :
Pirates captured the container ship Maersk Alabama and its crew of 20 Americans off Somalia in what Navy officials said may be the first seizure of a U.S. ship in four years of attacks.
Biden's test?
Somali Pirates Seize Another Ship; 20+ Americans Captured —
A Blog For All
Somali piracy has not taken a break. They've been busy in the past week as just two days ago pirates captured a German flagged ship and attacked three other ships this past weekend. Today comes word that a Danish flagged container ship was attacked and 20 or 21 Americans were on board. The ...
Somali Pirates Hijack Maersk Alabama —
The Jawa Report
This is a US flagged ship and up to 20 Americans are believed to be part fo the crew.Via CNN: (CNN) -- Pirates off Somalia's coast on Wednesday attacked a cargo ship with a crew of at least 20 U.S....
Pirates seek to board Israeli cargo ship off Somalia —
Israel Matzav
Pirates sought to board an Israeli cargo ship about 700 kilometers off the coast of Somolia on Saturday morning. The pirates were unable to board due to the barbed wire around the ship's deck. The ship was eventually able to outrun the pirates. The ship, which was flying a Maltese flag, had no ...
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