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Somali Pirate Maps
eaglespeak.us - 12/1/2008
Somali Pirate Maps
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Someone at the UN Satellite office went a lot of trouble to produce the pretty picture shown below (click on it to make it bigger). It comes from here (pdf). Comment: This 3D perspective map illustrates the relative spatial density of reported pirate incidents in the Gulf of Aden for 2008 ...
maps.google.com - 11/27/2008
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corner.nationalreview.com - 12/5/2008
Your Tax Dollars at Work: Burying Somali Suicide Bombers ... in Minnesota
— corner.nationalreview.com — Hat tip to Diana West (who got it from Pamela Geller). Shirwa Ahmed was a Somali jihadist:... a suicide terrorist who killed 29 people in a bombing in Northern Somalia last October. He was also a naturalized American citizen, part (I guess "parts" ... (more) Your Tax Dollars at Work: Burying Somali Suicide ...

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Armies of Liberation:  Map Piracy Denisty 2008

The Jawa Report:  Somali Pirates Operate Near Yemeni Coast

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Map Piracy Denisty 2008
Armies of Liberation — I love a good gif, these courtsey of Eagelspeak . Apparently this is the normal route for these size ships which are staying closer to the maritime security zone. But I had no idea that it was all pretty much off the coast of Yemen, not Somalia: Focusing-Pirate-attacks.jpg And another, UN free content: UNOSAT_SO_PirateDensity_No.jpg This ( ...

Somali Pirates Operate Near Yemeni Coast
The Jawa Report — December 01, 2008 Somali Pirates Operate Near Yemeni Coast Hat tip Eagelspeak (who as usual has great analysis), this map shows the incidence and locations of pirate attacks in the Gulf of Aden as of Nov. 21, 2008. This is the normal route for these size ships, I've learned, which are staying closer to the maritime security zone (blue line) . But I didn't realize that the epicenter of Somali piracy was so close to Yemen, not Somalia: UNOSAT_SO_PirateDensity_No.jpg Prepared by ...

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