weeklyworldnews.com - 11/21/2008
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DJIBOUTI - The Somali pirates, renegade Somalis known for hijacking ships for ransom in the Gulf of Aden, are negotiating a purchase of Citigroup.
India 'sinks Somali pirate ship'
democraticunderground.com 11/19/2008 — Source: [b]BBC[/b]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7736885.stm
An Indian navy warship has destroyed a suspected Somali pirate vessel after it came under attack in the Gulf of Aden.
The INS Tabar sunk the pirate "mother ship" after it failed to stop for investigation and opened ...
Another Ship Seized
outsidethebeltway.com 11/19/2008 — A freighter carrying a cargo of grain to Iran has been seized by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden:
Somali pirates struck again yesterday, seizing an Iranian cargo ship holding 30,000 tonnes of grain, as the world’s governments and navies pronounced ...
Indian Navy Account of Pirate Encounter Questioned —
A Blog For All
CNN is reporting that the Indian Navy didn't hit a pirate mothership as they claimed, but rather a Thai trawler. It would appear that the trawler was under attack by the pirates when communications were lost. One crewman was found alive after six days adrift in the Gulf of Aden, and one is ...
Saving Citi —
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
A rescue is in the works . On the other hand : The Somali pirates, renegade Somalis known for hijacking ships for ransom in the Gulf of Aden, are negotiating a purchase of Citigroup. The pirates would buy Citigroup with new debt and their existing cash
stockpiles, earned most recently from ...
Blackfive: Sea Jump —
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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Richard Dunn jumps from a CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter during a training exercise over the Gulf of Aden off the coast of Djibouti, Nov. 12, 2008. Dunn, a pararescueman with the 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron,...read ...
Gulf of Aden: a Den for al Qaeda? —
democracyarsenal.org
Piracy might currently be the most pronounced problem in and around the Gulf of Aden, but it is by far not the only strategic threat in the region. In fact, it may just be a harbinger for greater concerns which may develop down the road, ones which might have more profound ramifications for the ...
A Good Start —
Neptunus Lex
Talk about bringing a knife to a gunfight: Indian Navy - 1, Pirates - 0
An Indian navy warship has sunk a Somali pirate “mother ship” in the Gulf of Aden, the world’s most treacherous waterway, after the renegades threatened to attack the frigate…
INS Tabar, an ...
Piracy in the Gulf of Aden —
The Glittering Eye
I’ve been posting up a storm lately on the increase in the operational tempo and value of the prizes seized by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden over at Outside the Beltway . Here are my most recent posts:
The Future of Piracy
More on the Threat of Piracy to the Oil Trade
Another ...
Indians Beat Pirates in Slugfest —
Drudge Retort
An Indian navy warship in the Gulf of Aden has destroyed a ship belonging to pirates operating off the coast of Somalia. INS Tabar sank a pirate "mother ship" after it failed to stop for investigation and opened fire instead, the military said.
Indians Sink the Pirate Mother Ship —
JammieWearingFool
Just when a report yesterday was indicating how everyone was powerless to stop a rag-tag bunch of Somali pirtaes from hijacking ships, the Indians step up and blammo(!), down goes the mothership.An Indian navy warship has sunk a Somali pirate "mother ship" in the Gulf of Aden, the world's most ...
Shipping Co. Rerouting to Avoid Gulf of Aden —
Armies of Liberation
HT: Eagle Speak, the best maritimed themed blog out there on 1) Iranian mystery ship, clean of CW, docks in Rotterdam and 2) shipping patterns re-routing to avoid Gulf, just as DPI takes over Aden port.
III: OSLO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Norwegian shipping group Odfjell will stop ...
This is Getting Out of Hand —
Neptunus Lex
Maybe the news media are just paying closer attention, but it sure seems like the world’s sealanes - the lifeblood of commerce - aren’t what they used to be :
A Hong Kong cargo ship loaded with wheat bound for Iran has been hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, the official ...
Braver Pirates, More Lucrative Booty —
democracyarsenal.org
This post is from Amanda R. Hillman This weekend saw the hijacking of yet more cargo ships off the coasts of Somalia and Kenya by pirates, despite the recently increased presence of a multinational naval force patrolling the Indian Ocean near the Gulf of Aden.
On Sunday, South Korea ...
Phosporic Acid Tanker Highjacked in Gulf of Aden —
Armies of Liberation
OGJ
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 11 -- Pirates off Somalia have hijacked a second vessel chartered by chemical tanker group Stolt-Nielsen, this time taking the MT Stolt Strength in the Gulf of Aden, despite a coalition of 10 countries, including Russia, that have naval vessels patrolling the waterway. ...
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