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newsmax.com - 5/7/2009

U.S. Importing Somali 'Pirate-Jihadists'

— newsmax.com — The Obama administration is preparing to reinstate a fraud-riddled immigration program that has brought over 36,000 Somalis... into the United States under questionable circumstances, including two dozen Minneapolis men that the FBI fears may be ... (more) U.S. Importing Somali 'Pirate-Jihadists'

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mudvillegazette.com - 5/4/2009

Floating Ideas

— mudvillegazette.com — Over the weekend : Special forces on a Portuguese warship seized explosives from suspected Somali pirates after... thwarting an attack on an oil tanker, but later freed the 19 men. Hours later and hundreds of miles away, another band of pirates hijacked a cargo ship, a NATO spokesman said ... (more) Floating Ideas

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General David Petraeus

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mudvillegazette.com - 5/9/2009

Navy Captures Surprised Pirates

— mudvillegazette.com — SOMEWHERE OFF THE SOMALI COAST : The pirates on board the two skiffs must have thought they... had an easy target - but they were in for an unpleasant surprise. Their prey was actually a U.S. Navy vessel, transiting northward to join other U.S. Navy and coalition ships operating in the area.  ... (more) Navy Captures Surprised Pirates

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John Lewis

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Late News......by DML
Theo Spark — Somali pirates guided by London intelligence team, report says. Wouldn't surprise me. MPs' expenses: what they claimed. None of them should be re-elected. A message from the little people to MPs: You disgust us. Pity much sums up the MPs standing right now. ...

Pirates Getting Help From Overseas
A Blog For All — ... for years in order to secure ransoms and negotiate deals to release ships and crews in Somalia and elsewhere around the world. Therefore, it's not much of a reach to learn that there are unscrupulous people who are tipping off the pirates as to the whereabouts of lucrative targets ripe for being attacked by the pirates. It says that pirate groups have "well-placed informers" in London who are in regular contact with control centres in Somalia where decisions on which vessels to attack are made. These London-based "consultants" help the pirates select targets, providing ...

Somali pirates guided by London intelligence team - a very quiet scoop
Yourish.com — If this news item is true, the lack of attention it gets from mass media is amazing. At least, kudos to The Guardian where kudos due: The Somali pirates attacking shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean are directed to their targets by a “consultant” team in London, according to a European military intelligence document obtained by a Spanish radio station. Another piquant detail: The national flag of a ship is also taken into account when choosing a target, with British vessels being increasingly avoided, ...

Pirates and Yemen
Armies of Liberation — ... that you will have Yemeni pirate expeditions on the scale comparable to the Somali expeditions,” he said. “What you need to do is move fast now to prevent the situation deteriorating in Yemen any further. How you do that is anybody’s guess.” In a recent report, London-based Chatham House warned that Yemen faced a potent combination of problems, which, if left unresolved, could expand a lawless zone stretching from northern Kenya, through Somalia and the Gulf of Aden to Saudi Arabia. Guardian The Somali pirates attacking shipping in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean are ...